APTD Practice Test

APTD Practice Test (Instructional Design) Which instructional mode provides the highest learning retention rate? - Teaching Others (Instructional Design) Allowing learners to take charge of their own learning is an example of which adult learning principle? - Autonomy (Instructional Design) What should the essential components of a leadership development program address? - The specific performance needs of the organization and the manager/leader (Instructional Design) Which is a theory of learning and memory? - 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? - 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? - 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? - 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? - 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? - Formative evaluation plan (Instructional Design) Which method of personality testing classifies learners' preferences for thinking in four different modes based on brain function? - 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? - Inductive (Instructional Design) You want to develop a training session for a high-power distance culture. Which instructional method should you use? - Lecture (Instructional Design) Which is of LEAST concern when administering an assessment? - 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? - 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. - 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: - memory technique. (Training Delivery) Which delivery method is best for developing higher-order thinking skills and stimulating interpersonal exchanges? - 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? - U-Shaped (Training Delivery) Which of the following delivery methodologies is best for large, dispersed groups of learners when the subject matter is