WGU D293 Questions and Answers
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• Which domain includes knowing? -✓✓cognitive
• What are the stages of backwards design -✓✓1. identify desired results
2. determine acceptable evidence
3. plan learning experiences and instruction
• Backwards Design; identify Desired Results Questions -✓✓What should
participants hear, read, view, explore or otherwise encounter?
What knowledge and skills should participants master?
What are big ideas and important understandings participants should retain?
• Which design process is an example of backward design? -✓✓Write learning
goals based on what students need to learn, decide how that learning will be
measured, then choose activities to prepare students for success in those
measurements.
• In which stage of backward design does the instructor consider what will be
acceptable and accurate evidence of students meeting learning goals and objectives
asking "how will I know" students have met these goals and objectives? -✓✓stage
2
• In a course that teaches academic literacy skills to adult learners without a high
school diploma, the instructor wants to assess students' ability to accurately
summarize an assigned reading -✓✓Write a paragraph that addresses the reading's
key points.
• A learning experience designer is asked to help an instructor design a summative
assessment for a lesson. The course design calls for the summative assessment to
be at higher cognitive level based on the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy and to
employ either conceptual or procedural knowledge dimension.
Which assessment activity is both at higher cognitive level and is also aligned to
one of the required knowledge dimensions? -✓✓Write a pedagogical analysis of a
,lesson plan and its steps by applying two of the five learning theories learned in a
unit.
• In a certificate program for adults pursuing a career in business, learners must
demonstrate the ability to write an employee self-evaluation using a self-
assessment rubric as well as to submit a reflection describing the extent to which a
potential raise or promotion provides motivation for writing an honest self-
evaluation.
Which two learning domains are being used in this authentic assessment? Choose 2
answers. -✓✓Cognitive and affective
• In a medical course, the learner will be able to explain the clinical signs of
obesity to a patient in a treatment context by playing the role of a clinician in a
scenario-based discussion post. -✓✓understand
• 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. -✓✓apply
• In a woodworking course, the learner will be able to demonstrate the ability to
use three of ten possible types of joints by building a bookcase, table, or storage
chest -✓✓create
• In an auto-mechanics certification course, the learner will be able to state which
EPA laws apply to exhaust system repairs -✓✓remember
• In a culinary arts course, the learner will be able to determine whether a dish was
properly prepared by tasting and rating the dish. -✓✓evaluate
• Maria conducts a three-day training to train an organization's administrative staff
on a new automated scheduling system. After the training, the organization's
training director requests the scores participants earned on the final training
activity, which is a complex simulation. Which type of assessment does the final
training activity represent? -✓✓summative
• Seventh-grade students in a French class complete a unit focused on colors with
the learning goal of "Students will be able to identify the colors of the rainbow
using French vocabulary words." How should the instructor assess whether
, students met this learning goal using a traditional assessment strategy? -✓✓Have
students complete a matching worksheet that includes the colors in both English
and French
• An instructor presents business ownership concepts to a group of business
students, including the different types of business ownership. The learning
objective is "Compare the major forms of business ownership." Which direct
assessment method aligns with this learning objective? -✓✓Developing a
presentation about business ownership
• In a senior internship course, one of the learning objectives requires students to
be able to evaluate their growth throughout the semester. Which weekly
assessment method would align with this objective? -✓✓Composing a reflection
essay
• In a graduate business course, one of the learning objectives is, "Students will be
able to facilitate a meeting using presentation software." How should an indirect
assessment method be used to support students in meeting this objective? -✓✓By
having students critique each other's recorded meetings and offer suggestions
• The objective of a high school art unit is, "Students will be able to make artwork
using mixed media." How could a project-based assessment method be used to
determine whether students have met this learning objective? -✓✓Students could
create a portfolio with samples of their artwork.
• Which type of learning analytics should a learning experience designer begin
with as a first step toward optimizing learning in K-12, higher education, and
workforce development? -✓✓Descriptive
• The teacher has gathered the learning data of a fifth-grade world history class
throughout an entire school year. The school seeks a 10 percent improvement in
student learning and wants to use the data from this year as a benchmark for
comparison to students who take history next year. The school principal has asked
the teacher to use the data to establish learning growth benchmarks based on the
current year's data. To establish the desired benchmark, _____________ analytics
should be used. -✓✓Descriptive
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• Which domain includes knowing? -✓✓cognitive
• What are the stages of backwards design -✓✓1. identify desired results
2. determine acceptable evidence
3. plan learning experiences and instruction
• Backwards Design; identify Desired Results Questions -✓✓What should
participants hear, read, view, explore or otherwise encounter?
What knowledge and skills should participants master?
What are big ideas and important understandings participants should retain?
• Which design process is an example of backward design? -✓✓Write learning
goals based on what students need to learn, decide how that learning will be
measured, then choose activities to prepare students for success in those
measurements.
• In which stage of backward design does the instructor consider what will be
acceptable and accurate evidence of students meeting learning goals and objectives
asking "how will I know" students have met these goals and objectives? -✓✓stage
2
• In a course that teaches academic literacy skills to adult learners without a high
school diploma, the instructor wants to assess students' ability to accurately
summarize an assigned reading -✓✓Write a paragraph that addresses the reading's
key points.
• A learning experience designer is asked to help an instructor design a summative
assessment for a lesson. The course design calls for the summative assessment to
be at higher cognitive level based on the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy and to
employ either conceptual or procedural knowledge dimension.
Which assessment activity is both at higher cognitive level and is also aligned to
one of the required knowledge dimensions? -✓✓Write a pedagogical analysis of a
,lesson plan and its steps by applying two of the five learning theories learned in a
unit.
• In a certificate program for adults pursuing a career in business, learners must
demonstrate the ability to write an employee self-evaluation using a self-
assessment rubric as well as to submit a reflection describing the extent to which a
potential raise or promotion provides motivation for writing an honest self-
evaluation.
Which two learning domains are being used in this authentic assessment? Choose 2
answers. -✓✓Cognitive and affective
• In a medical course, the learner will be able to explain the clinical signs of
obesity to a patient in a treatment context by playing the role of a clinician in a
scenario-based discussion post. -✓✓understand
• 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. -✓✓apply
• In a woodworking course, the learner will be able to demonstrate the ability to
use three of ten possible types of joints by building a bookcase, table, or storage
chest -✓✓create
• In an auto-mechanics certification course, the learner will be able to state which
EPA laws apply to exhaust system repairs -✓✓remember
• In a culinary arts course, the learner will be able to determine whether a dish was
properly prepared by tasting and rating the dish. -✓✓evaluate
• Maria conducts a three-day training to train an organization's administrative staff
on a new automated scheduling system. After the training, the organization's
training director requests the scores participants earned on the final training
activity, which is a complex simulation. Which type of assessment does the final
training activity represent? -✓✓summative
• Seventh-grade students in a French class complete a unit focused on colors with
the learning goal of "Students will be able to identify the colors of the rainbow
using French vocabulary words." How should the instructor assess whether
, students met this learning goal using a traditional assessment strategy? -✓✓Have
students complete a matching worksheet that includes the colors in both English
and French
• An instructor presents business ownership concepts to a group of business
students, including the different types of business ownership. The learning
objective is "Compare the major forms of business ownership." Which direct
assessment method aligns with this learning objective? -✓✓Developing a
presentation about business ownership
• In a senior internship course, one of the learning objectives requires students to
be able to evaluate their growth throughout the semester. Which weekly
assessment method would align with this objective? -✓✓Composing a reflection
essay
• In a graduate business course, one of the learning objectives is, "Students will be
able to facilitate a meeting using presentation software." How should an indirect
assessment method be used to support students in meeting this objective? -✓✓By
having students critique each other's recorded meetings and offer suggestions
• The objective of a high school art unit is, "Students will be able to make artwork
using mixed media." How could a project-based assessment method be used to
determine whether students have met this learning objective? -✓✓Students could
create a portfolio with samples of their artwork.
• Which type of learning analytics should a learning experience designer begin
with as a first step toward optimizing learning in K-12, higher education, and
workforce development? -✓✓Descriptive
• The teacher has gathered the learning data of a fifth-grade world history class
throughout an entire school year. The school seeks a 10 percent improvement in
student learning and wants to use the data from this year as a benchmark for
comparison to students who take history next year. The school principal has asked
the teacher to use the data to establish learning growth benchmarks based on the
current year's data. To establish the desired benchmark, _____________ analytics
should be used. -✓✓Descriptive
