APTD Practice Test

APTD Practice Test (Instructional Design) Which instructional mode provides the highest learning retention rate? - ANS - Teaching Others (Instructional Design) Allowing learners to take charge of their own learning is ...

APTD Practice Test (Instructional Design) Which instructional mode provides the highest learning retention rate? - ANS - Teaching Others (Instructional Design) Allowing learners to take charge of their own learning is an example of which adult learning principle? - ANS - Autonomy (Instructional Design) What should the essential components of a leadership development program address? - ANS - The specific performance needs of the organization and the manager/leader (Instructional Design) Which is a theory of learning and memory? - ANS - Behaviorism (Instructional Design) A talent development professional has been asked to provide a daylong leadership seminar by a stakeholder. What combination of elements must be included for the instructional system? - ANS - A list of required knowledge and skills, an outline of the content, and a test or evaluation (Instructional Design) A talent development professional is having difficulty getting a subject matter expert (SME) motivated to provide the technical content needed to complete a course design. According to James Goldsmith (2000), what is the best technique to use to motivate the SME? - ANS - Give the SME's work increased recognition (Instructional Design) A newly formed division of a large corporation that is not openly discussing conflicting needs. You are performing a needs assessment. Why should you use a focus group to collect data? - ANS - You can note non-verbal behaviors. (Instructional Design) Because of the copyright registration process, which of the following will a creator of training materials be allowed to do? - ANS - Reproduce the copyrighted work for profit (Instructional Design) A supervisor in the Department of Transportation organizes a team of training facilitators to redesign a mandatory safety course on the handling of hazardous materials. The half-day course is currently organized into three 50-minute slide presentations. Participants receive a thick binder containing copies of the slide shows and numerous government publications on hazardous materials. The supervisor has directed the team to recruit some employees for a pilot test of the redesigned course. This test should take place during what phase of the ISD process? - ANS - Formative evaluation plan (Instructional Design) Which method of personality testing classifies learners' preferences for thinking in four different modes based on brain function? - ANS - Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument (Instructional Design) By experiencing an activity, participants discover principles by observing several specific related facts. What type of learning is this? - ANS - Inductive (Instructional Design) You want to develop a training session for a high-power distance culture. Which instructional method should you use? - ANS - Lecture (Instructional Design) Which is of LEAST concern when administering an assessment? - ANS - The assessment was used successfully by other, similar companies. (Instructional Design) Which of the following can most affect a participant's implementation of new behaviors after training? - ANS - Work climate (Training Delivery) A TD professional was preparing some new instructional materials on improving customer service. While preparing one of the units, the TD professional found a table that categorized appropriate verbal responses to customers. The table was found in some other copyrighted training materials that the TD professional's company had purchased for use two years ago. Because the company had physical ownership of copyrighted materials that they purchased, the TD professional inserted the table into the new materials and attributed credit to the publisher. Which of the following statements best describes compliance with copyright law in the above scenario. - ANS - The TD professional's company had first sale rights, yet needs to request permission from the publisher to reproduce the table in the new material. (Training Delivery) A TD professional in a city's Community Safety and Outreach program has prepared an informational training program for the public to learn pool safety. The program uses a jingle, which is a short song, with the ABCs of pool safety to teach tips on how to prevent children from drowning. A jingle used in a training program is a type of: - ANS - memory technique. (Training Delivery) Which delivery method is best for developing higher-order thinking skills and stimulating interpersonal exchanges? - ANS - Classroom training (Training Delivery) A talent development professional is preparing to deliver a highly interactive program to an audience of 16 participants. The program involves some lecture and individual work, as well as frequent, sometimes lengthy, small group exercises. Which room set up is best for this type of program? - ANS - U-Shaped (Training Delivery) Which of the following delivery methodologies is best for large, dispersed groups of learners when the subject matter is highly cognitive in nature, and just-in-time training is required? - ANS - Self-directed learning (Training Delivery) You created a new job aid as a part of your employment with the training division of X Corporation and published it on your firm's "training tips" website, which is accessible by the general public. What is the copyright status of the job aid? - ANS - It is copyright protected, and the copyright is owned by the X Corporation, your employer. (Training Delivery) What "getting started" activity for a training session would BEST set the tone for the behaviors learners can expect of each other and the facilitator? - ANS - Ground rules (Training Delivery) Which of the following is a characteristic of a well-designed web-based training program? - ANS - The student is encouraged to make menu choices and enter responses to questions. (Learning Technologies) The total cost of ineffective e-learning includes the cost of: - ANS - poor performance and missed opportunities. (Learning Technologies) Learning content management systems (LCMSs) help organizations and instructional designers to: - ANS - manage the creation, editing, and publication of instructional content. (Learning Technologies) In which situation would an Electronic Performance Support System (EPSS) be useful? - ANS - The task requires immediate and frequent updates. (Learning Technologies) An Electronic Performance Support System (EPSS) should be used when tasks: - ANS - are relatively difficult to perform. (Learning Technologies) A talent development professional has been asked to design an elearning program for call-center operators. Which point should be considered important while building the program? - ANS - Include multiple user-tests throughout the program (Learning Technologies) What solution would address reducing the training budget by 30% and allow participants greater flexibility? - ANS - Replace some classroom training with asynchronous e-learning. (Learning Technologies) Which describes a blended learning course? - ANS - E-learning course and a shared website for gathering handouts and posting assignments (Instructional Design) A curriculum designer was assigned to create a training program with far too many topics to cover adequately in the required time frame. What is the best solution to this problem? The curriculum designer should: - ANS - Create a criticality rubric with SMEs (Instructional Design) A talent development professional has just published a training curriculum. Which is an exclusive right granted by the copyright? - ANS - Reproduce the copyrighted work (Instructional Design) To assess the effectiveness of a training program while it is under development, a talent development professional should use an evaluation that is: - ANS - formative. (Instructional Design) Which is the key component of an audience analysis? - ANS - Audience expectations (Learning Technologies) What is the FIRST priority in using any learning technology? - ANS - Understand what is available to learners and what is available to use (Learning Technologies) A trainer wants to accelerate a learning curve by supporting learners before and after a workshop and encouraging relationships among the learners. What interactive, real-time social learning tool should the trainer use? - ANS - Learning wiki (Learning Technologies) Which of the following is the BEST method for determining a vendor's capability? - ANS - Alignment of the philosophy between the vendor and the organization (Learning Technologies) An organization has requested you provide training for a new initiative. After discussion, it becomes clear that there has been a breakdown of communication among stakeholders. You decide to divide learners into two groups. Group 1 consists of safety officers and their work locations are scattered throughout the country. Most of the time they are in the field and away from their offices. Group 2 consists of a large number of external customers. For security reasons, customers cannot access the company learning management system and they must be authorized to enter company locations. You recommend online learning for Group 1. Which of the following is the MOST suitable for them? - ANS - Asynchronous training (Training Delivery) Which of the following delivery methodologies is best for large, dispersed groups of learners when the subject matter is highly cognitive in nature, and just-in-time training is required? - ANS - Self-directed learning (Training Delivery) Which activity will achieve the greatest transfer of learning? - ANS - Partner with managers to review the expected training outcomes and how to support the change in performance. (Training Delivery) A TD professional works for a cheesecake manufacturing company. Most of the employees who produce the cheesecakes have a different primary language than English, and some of them don't speak English at all. A new line of bite-sized, mini-cheesecakes will start production soon, and a group of employees has been selected for training on the new production line. Based on this information, which of the following learning methods would be best to choose for this training course. - ANS - Video-based (Training Delivery) A moving rental company has experienced a number of complaints from renters who have had difficulty dropping off equipment during business hours. The TD professional needs to design learning objectives for a course to address this issue. Which of the following should occur first by the TD professional? - ANS - Determine what performance issue(s) need to be addressed