WGU D520- CAPSTONE REFLECTION
CERTIFICATION SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◍ Students in an introduction to philosophy class are struggling to understand
the complex information provided in the course readings. The students'
instructor asks teaching assistants to facilitate tutoring sessions so students
can receive support while completing their reading assignments. How can
this instructor use learning analytics for the purpose of determining the
impact of the tutoring sessions on the students' comprehension of course
readings?.
Answer: By comparing the students' grades from before and after the
tutoring sessions
◍ Standards Based.
Answer: To see if a learner can meet requirements and have a mastery of
knowledge based on a predetermined standard.Example ; States
Standardized TestObjective; Learners will master grade-level mathematics.
◍ Critical Inquiry.
Answer: This is less about making judgements than being a means for
understanding underlying and connected issues. It asks WHY and WHO and
WHERE and HOW
◍ Concepts.
Answer: What do we want to know?
◍ Leverage Points.
Answer: These are specific strategies that can be used that could make a
differences for positive change.
◍ Learning analytics; diagnostic analytics.
, Answer: why something happened.- Example; Discovering that senior
members did not do well. However, new hirees did do well. Figuring out
that senior members found the information to be basic and discovering that
advanced training is necessary. the deeper analysis highlighted the need to
cater to the specific needs of learners and offer a more personalized learning
experience
◍ During the first week of a 12-week semester, students in an online
accounting course complete an orientation. The orientation includes a
knowledge check of the students' ability to locate specific course
information and access navigation menu items. However, three weeks into
the course, students are asking the instructor how to access assignment
information. The instructor would like to provide further direction to these
students. Which data measure should the instructor review to determine how
to help these students?.
Answer: The frequency of students access to course activity content
◍ Why is it helpful to reference learning objectives while giving students
written or verbal feedback? Choose 2 answers.-.
Answer: Students will know what they need to accomplish and It helps the
feedback remain objective.
◍ Evidence.
Answer: What can we gather, show, or demonstrate?
◍ Personal development.
Answer: Integration of learning with personal skill development and
career/life decisions
◍ Which situation is an example of ethically interpreting data?-.
Answer: A CEO of a Fortune 500 company is reviewing the sales data of the
past three months to determine which salesperson will win the quarterly
sales contest.
◍ Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
Answer: before common bonds of affiliation and community can be made,
, one's primal survival needs must be met. If hungry, cold, or scared of others
one is not likely to have the resources to engage in reflection, which leads to
insight and learning. First is psychological, affiliation, then learning and
insight
◍ In a guidance counseling course, the learner will be able to provide advice
based on the learner's own experience to high school seniors about choosing
whether to attend college..
Answer: apply
◍ List the evolved Bloom's Revised Taxonomy..
Answer: RememberingUnderstandingApplyingAnalyzingEvaluatingCreating
◍ What type of learning analytics should be used; predictive.
Answer: Goal Predict the number of students who will pass the Chapter 3
testForecast the number of students who will graduate next yearProject next
month's salesPurpose of learning analytics type Use data from the past to
predict what might happen in the future
◍ Indicators.
Answer: How will we measure it?
◍ Students in a healthcare capstone course prepare for a required
postgraduation licensing exam by completing a nationally validated
competency exam that serves as practice. The students' practice exam
performance results are available within 10 days of the exam date to the
program chair but not to the capstone instructor. The program chair briefly
reviews the exam scores and tells the capstone instructor that the results are
around the expected average for healthcare students. Was the program
chair's decision to provide a summary interpretation of the practice exam
scores ethical?.
Answer: No, because the interpretation does not provide enough information
for the instructor to share specific performance insights with each student
◍ Iterative Learning and Teaching.
Answer: Basically the more experience the more substance we have in our
, lives to compare and contract. With each experience we begin to learn what
becomes most effective and the strategies that work more than others. It is a
cyclical process of experiences, assessment, analysis, and implementation
◍ A learning goal for a middle school music class unit is "Students will create
music using computer-based composition tools." After the class spends
several weeks practicing using the composition tools, an instructor for the
course assigns a project in which students must compose an original song
that is one minute long, incorporates at least two instruments, and includes a
repeating chorus. How would this competency-based assessment strategy
determine whether students met the learning goal?.
Answer: By providing an opportunity for students to demonstrate their
computer-based composition skills
◍ Activity Components of Self-Assessment.
Answer: Experience, learning, personal development, reflection, connection
to community, intercultural competence, civic engagement, capacity to work
in communities
◍ An instructor wants to gather data about a class to better understand how to
increase student engagement. Which type of data measurement should help
the instructor reach this goal?.
Answer: Data from improvement
◍ criterion referenced.
Answer: To see if a learner has met predetermined milestones and
requirementsExample; Advanced placement testsObjective; Learners will be
able to apply the basics of calculus.
◍ Backwards Design; Determine Acceptable Evidence.
Answer: How will I know if students have achieved the desired
results?What will I accept as evidence of student understanding and
proficiency?Term papers.Short-answer quizzes.Free-response
questions.Homework assignments.Lab projects.Practice problems.Group
projects.
CERTIFICATION SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◍ Students in an introduction to philosophy class are struggling to understand
the complex information provided in the course readings. The students'
instructor asks teaching assistants to facilitate tutoring sessions so students
can receive support while completing their reading assignments. How can
this instructor use learning analytics for the purpose of determining the
impact of the tutoring sessions on the students' comprehension of course
readings?.
Answer: By comparing the students' grades from before and after the
tutoring sessions
◍ Standards Based.
Answer: To see if a learner can meet requirements and have a mastery of
knowledge based on a predetermined standard.Example ; States
Standardized TestObjective; Learners will master grade-level mathematics.
◍ Critical Inquiry.
Answer: This is less about making judgements than being a means for
understanding underlying and connected issues. It asks WHY and WHO and
WHERE and HOW
◍ Concepts.
Answer: What do we want to know?
◍ Leverage Points.
Answer: These are specific strategies that can be used that could make a
differences for positive change.
◍ Learning analytics; diagnostic analytics.
, Answer: why something happened.- Example; Discovering that senior
members did not do well. However, new hirees did do well. Figuring out
that senior members found the information to be basic and discovering that
advanced training is necessary. the deeper analysis highlighted the need to
cater to the specific needs of learners and offer a more personalized learning
experience
◍ During the first week of a 12-week semester, students in an online
accounting course complete an orientation. The orientation includes a
knowledge check of the students' ability to locate specific course
information and access navigation menu items. However, three weeks into
the course, students are asking the instructor how to access assignment
information. The instructor would like to provide further direction to these
students. Which data measure should the instructor review to determine how
to help these students?.
Answer: The frequency of students access to course activity content
◍ Why is it helpful to reference learning objectives while giving students
written or verbal feedback? Choose 2 answers.-.
Answer: Students will know what they need to accomplish and It helps the
feedback remain objective.
◍ Evidence.
Answer: What can we gather, show, or demonstrate?
◍ Personal development.
Answer: Integration of learning with personal skill development and
career/life decisions
◍ Which situation is an example of ethically interpreting data?-.
Answer: A CEO of a Fortune 500 company is reviewing the sales data of the
past three months to determine which salesperson will win the quarterly
sales contest.
◍ Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
Answer: before common bonds of affiliation and community can be made,
, one's primal survival needs must be met. If hungry, cold, or scared of others
one is not likely to have the resources to engage in reflection, which leads to
insight and learning. First is psychological, affiliation, then learning and
insight
◍ In a guidance counseling course, the learner will be able to provide advice
based on the learner's own experience to high school seniors about choosing
whether to attend college..
Answer: apply
◍ List the evolved Bloom's Revised Taxonomy..
Answer: RememberingUnderstandingApplyingAnalyzingEvaluatingCreating
◍ What type of learning analytics should be used; predictive.
Answer: Goal Predict the number of students who will pass the Chapter 3
testForecast the number of students who will graduate next yearProject next
month's salesPurpose of learning analytics type Use data from the past to
predict what might happen in the future
◍ Indicators.
Answer: How will we measure it?
◍ Students in a healthcare capstone course prepare for a required
postgraduation licensing exam by completing a nationally validated
competency exam that serves as practice. The students' practice exam
performance results are available within 10 days of the exam date to the
program chair but not to the capstone instructor. The program chair briefly
reviews the exam scores and tells the capstone instructor that the results are
around the expected average for healthcare students. Was the program
chair's decision to provide a summary interpretation of the practice exam
scores ethical?.
Answer: No, because the interpretation does not provide enough information
for the instructor to share specific performance insights with each student
◍ Iterative Learning and Teaching.
Answer: Basically the more experience the more substance we have in our
, lives to compare and contract. With each experience we begin to learn what
becomes most effective and the strategies that work more than others. It is a
cyclical process of experiences, assessment, analysis, and implementation
◍ A learning goal for a middle school music class unit is "Students will create
music using computer-based composition tools." After the class spends
several weeks practicing using the composition tools, an instructor for the
course assigns a project in which students must compose an original song
that is one minute long, incorporates at least two instruments, and includes a
repeating chorus. How would this competency-based assessment strategy
determine whether students met the learning goal?.
Answer: By providing an opportunity for students to demonstrate their
computer-based composition skills
◍ Activity Components of Self-Assessment.
Answer: Experience, learning, personal development, reflection, connection
to community, intercultural competence, civic engagement, capacity to work
in communities
◍ An instructor wants to gather data about a class to better understand how to
increase student engagement. Which type of data measurement should help
the instructor reach this goal?.
Answer: Data from improvement
◍ criterion referenced.
Answer: To see if a learner has met predetermined milestones and
requirementsExample; Advanced placement testsObjective; Learners will be
able to apply the basics of calculus.
◍ Backwards Design; Determine Acceptable Evidence.
Answer: How will I know if students have achieved the desired
results?What will I accept as evidence of student understanding and
proficiency?Term papers.Short-answer quizzes.Free-response
questions.Homework assignments.Lab projects.Practice problems.Group
projects.
