WGU D293 OA CERTIFICATION
ASSESSMENT TEST COMPREHENSIVE
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS 2026
◉ Which domain includes knowing?
Answer: cognitive
◉ What are the stages of backwards design
Answer: 1. identify desired results
2. determine acceptable evidence
3. plan learning experiences and instruction
◉ Backwards Design; identify Desired Results Questions
Answer: 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?
,Answer: 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?
Answer: 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
Answer: 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?
Answer: 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.
Answer: 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.
Answer: 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.
Answer: 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
Answer: create
, ◉ In an auto-mechanics certification course, the learner will be able
to state which EPA laws apply to exhaust system repairs
Answer: 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.
Answer: 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?
Answer: 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?
Answer: Have students complete a matching worksheet that
includes the colors in both English and French
ASSESSMENT TEST COMPREHENSIVE
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS 2026
◉ Which domain includes knowing?
Answer: cognitive
◉ What are the stages of backwards design
Answer: 1. identify desired results
2. determine acceptable evidence
3. plan learning experiences and instruction
◉ Backwards Design; identify Desired Results Questions
Answer: 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?
,Answer: 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?
Answer: 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
Answer: 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?
Answer: 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.
Answer: 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.
Answer: 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.
Answer: 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
Answer: create
, ◉ In an auto-mechanics certification course, the learner will be able
to state which EPA laws apply to exhaust system repairs
Answer: 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.
Answer: 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?
Answer: 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?
Answer: Have students complete a matching worksheet that
includes the colors in both English and French
