WGU D293 EXAM WITH 117
QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS RATED A+
2026/2027
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
Which scenario is an example of how prescriptive analytics can be used in a K-12
setting?
For the past five years, the number of students reading at grade level has declined.
The school would like to know what actions should be taken to break the five-year
decline in the number of students reading at grade level.
What are three essential metrics for gauging the effectiveness of training
evaluation in a workforce development setting? Choose 3 answers.
Metrics that measure participants' reactions, Metrics that measure how much
employees are learning, Metrics that measure changes in behavior
A supervisor wants to know if the new training program designed to increase
production is successful or needs to be revised. How should the supervisor apply
learning analytics to measure the effectiveness of the training?
Track employees' performance during training.
,Which action is an example of using the qualitative analysis technique to extract
insights about learners?-
Examining the transcript of a discussion about students' feelings on remote
learning.
A program director gathered data on how frequently instructors engaged with
students on discussion boards. Which learning analytics technique should be used
to analyze this data?
Quantitative Analysis
A principal wants teachers to compare this year's midterm grades to last year's
midterm grades. Which type of learning analytics should be used?-
Descriptive
When using learning analytics to assess student learning in online courses, which
learning analytics technique is often used with descriptive analytics to conduct
item analysis of multiple-choice formative assessments?-
Quantitative Analysis
Which type of learning analytics would help an instructor determine why student
dropout rates are rising?-
diagnostic
Which goals align with prescriptive analytics?-
Plan how to achieve an 80% passing rate on chapter tests, Determine how to
increase the number of students who will graduate next year, and Propose a
solution to increase sale
A company has concerns about employee turnover. The learning and development
team decides to analyze employee morale information from the past to find out
why employees are leaving the company at such a rapid rate.
Which type of learning analytics should the learning and development team use?-
Diagnostic
A learning experience designer meets with a school principal who seeks data for
improvement. The principal wants to know if a proposed new e-reading curriculum
, for the fourth grade will improve reading comprehension measures. Which activity
will produce the necessary data?
Arrange for each fourth-grade classroom to complete one lesson from the proposed
curriculum and compare the scores to student scores on the same lesson from the
current curriculum.
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?
Data from improvement
Ordinal data
specifies an order to the information. However, the amount of space or distance
between data points are not fixed or known. Scale points from a survey instrument
are an example of ordinal data. For example, strongly agree is known to be
"higher" than agree, but the distance between agree and strongly agree is not
known.
An instructor wants to determine whether to continue using a new textbook in a
course or return to last year's textbook. What kind of assessment data should the
instructor use to inform this decision?-
Test performance compared to last year
A teacher notices that a former straight-A student has started to fail tests. The
teacher wants to personalize the lesson to help the student succeed. What
assessment data should the teacher use?-
Review and compare cumulative test scores
Barton is a first-grade student who has repeated struggles in mathematics. Barton
seems to have a good understanding of basic mathematics facts, but has difficulty
with subtracting multidigit numbers. Which type of data can be collected to
identify how to help Barton?-
Patterns of incorrect answers
A learning experience designer has changed the learning resource for this
semester's Chapter 2 test, but the test remains the same. The learning experience
designer wants to know if students scored better on this semester's test than
QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS RATED A+
2026/2027
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
Which scenario is an example of how prescriptive analytics can be used in a K-12
setting?
For the past five years, the number of students reading at grade level has declined.
The school would like to know what actions should be taken to break the five-year
decline in the number of students reading at grade level.
What are three essential metrics for gauging the effectiveness of training
evaluation in a workforce development setting? Choose 3 answers.
Metrics that measure participants' reactions, Metrics that measure how much
employees are learning, Metrics that measure changes in behavior
A supervisor wants to know if the new training program designed to increase
production is successful or needs to be revised. How should the supervisor apply
learning analytics to measure the effectiveness of the training?
Track employees' performance during training.
,Which action is an example of using the qualitative analysis technique to extract
insights about learners?-
Examining the transcript of a discussion about students' feelings on remote
learning.
A program director gathered data on how frequently instructors engaged with
students on discussion boards. Which learning analytics technique should be used
to analyze this data?
Quantitative Analysis
A principal wants teachers to compare this year's midterm grades to last year's
midterm grades. Which type of learning analytics should be used?-
Descriptive
When using learning analytics to assess student learning in online courses, which
learning analytics technique is often used with descriptive analytics to conduct
item analysis of multiple-choice formative assessments?-
Quantitative Analysis
Which type of learning analytics would help an instructor determine why student
dropout rates are rising?-
diagnostic
Which goals align with prescriptive analytics?-
Plan how to achieve an 80% passing rate on chapter tests, Determine how to
increase the number of students who will graduate next year, and Propose a
solution to increase sale
A company has concerns about employee turnover. The learning and development
team decides to analyze employee morale information from the past to find out
why employees are leaving the company at such a rapid rate.
Which type of learning analytics should the learning and development team use?-
Diagnostic
A learning experience designer meets with a school principal who seeks data for
improvement. The principal wants to know if a proposed new e-reading curriculum
, for the fourth grade will improve reading comprehension measures. Which activity
will produce the necessary data?
Arrange for each fourth-grade classroom to complete one lesson from the proposed
curriculum and compare the scores to student scores on the same lesson from the
current curriculum.
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?
Data from improvement
Ordinal data
specifies an order to the information. However, the amount of space or distance
between data points are not fixed or known. Scale points from a survey instrument
are an example of ordinal data. For example, strongly agree is known to be
"higher" than agree, but the distance between agree and strongly agree is not
known.
An instructor wants to determine whether to continue using a new textbook in a
course or return to last year's textbook. What kind of assessment data should the
instructor use to inform this decision?-
Test performance compared to last year
A teacher notices that a former straight-A student has started to fail tests. The
teacher wants to personalize the lesson to help the student succeed. What
assessment data should the teacher use?-
Review and compare cumulative test scores
Barton is a first-grade student who has repeated struggles in mathematics. Barton
seems to have a good understanding of basic mathematics facts, but has difficulty
with subtracting multidigit numbers. Which type of data can be collected to
identify how to help Barton?-
Patterns of incorrect answers
A learning experience designer has changed the learning resource for this
semester's Chapter 2 test, but the test remains the same. The learning experience
designer wants to know if students scored better on this semester's test than
