NCOA COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
●● _______ is when you talk through your material and verbalize your
thoughts to help you make more sense of the material and internalize it
more deeply.
Answer: Thinking Aloud
●● _______ helps you organize your thoughts and assess what you
know.
Answer: Writing
●● Using concept maps or graphic organizers is another great way to
visualize material and see the connections between the various concepts
you are learning is considered :
Answer: Organizing your thoughts
●● This technique ensures that you are actively engaging with the
material as you are reading and taking notes.
Answer: Taking notes from memory
,●● When you're learning, it's important to periodically ___________ to
make sure you're engaging in metacognitive strategies.
Answer: Take a timeout
●● Methods such as thinking aloud, using writing, and taking notes from
memory can help you when you are ___________.
Answer: Testing yourself.
●● What framework helps leaders understand how problems fit into
defined categories and what behaviors arise as problems become
increasingly more difficult?
Answer: The Cynefin Framework
●● Who developed the Cynefin Framework?
Answer: David Snowden
●● What are the four domains that compose the Cynefin Framework?
Answer: Simple, complicated, complex and chaotic.
●● What Cynefin domain is characterized by stability and clear cause-
and-effect relationships that are seen by everyone and are always going
to be the same? Leaders sense, categorize and respond.
Answer: The Simple Domain: The Domain of Best Practice
, ●● In which Cynefin domain is there a relationship between cause and
effect; however, not everyone may be able to see it, so analysis or
expertise is required. This domain may contain multiple right answers,
many of which may be excellent. Therefore, good practice (as opposed
to best practice) is more appropriate. This is the domain of "known
unknowns". Leaders must sense, analyze and respond.
Answer: The Complicated Domain: The Domain of Good Practice
●● In which Cynefin domain is there a relationship between cause and
effect is so intertwined that things only make sense in hindsight... after
the situation has occurred and maybe even worked itself out. Leaders
probe first, then sense by figuring out what happened based on the
experiment and then respond.
Answer: The Complex Domain: The Domain of Emergent Practices
●● In which Cynefin domain would searching for right answers be
pointless? The relationship between cause and effect are impossible to
determine because they shift constantly and no manageable patterns
exist - only turbulence. This is the domain of "unknowables".
A leader must first act to establish order, then sense figuring out where
stability is and where it's not, and then respond by working to change the
situation.
Answer: The Chaotic Domain: The Domain Novel Practices
●● Cynefin Simple Domain's Characteristics:
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
●● _______ is when you talk through your material and verbalize your
thoughts to help you make more sense of the material and internalize it
more deeply.
Answer: Thinking Aloud
●● _______ helps you organize your thoughts and assess what you
know.
Answer: Writing
●● Using concept maps or graphic organizers is another great way to
visualize material and see the connections between the various concepts
you are learning is considered :
Answer: Organizing your thoughts
●● This technique ensures that you are actively engaging with the
material as you are reading and taking notes.
Answer: Taking notes from memory
,●● When you're learning, it's important to periodically ___________ to
make sure you're engaging in metacognitive strategies.
Answer: Take a timeout
●● Methods such as thinking aloud, using writing, and taking notes from
memory can help you when you are ___________.
Answer: Testing yourself.
●● What framework helps leaders understand how problems fit into
defined categories and what behaviors arise as problems become
increasingly more difficult?
Answer: The Cynefin Framework
●● Who developed the Cynefin Framework?
Answer: David Snowden
●● What are the four domains that compose the Cynefin Framework?
Answer: Simple, complicated, complex and chaotic.
●● What Cynefin domain is characterized by stability and clear cause-
and-effect relationships that are seen by everyone and are always going
to be the same? Leaders sense, categorize and respond.
Answer: The Simple Domain: The Domain of Best Practice
, ●● In which Cynefin domain is there a relationship between cause and
effect; however, not everyone may be able to see it, so analysis or
expertise is required. This domain may contain multiple right answers,
many of which may be excellent. Therefore, good practice (as opposed
to best practice) is more appropriate. This is the domain of "known
unknowns". Leaders must sense, analyze and respond.
Answer: The Complicated Domain: The Domain of Good Practice
●● In which Cynefin domain is there a relationship between cause and
effect is so intertwined that things only make sense in hindsight... after
the situation has occurred and maybe even worked itself out. Leaders
probe first, then sense by figuring out what happened based on the
experiment and then respond.
Answer: The Complex Domain: The Domain of Emergent Practices
●● In which Cynefin domain would searching for right answers be
pointless? The relationship between cause and effect are impossible to
determine because they shift constantly and no manageable patterns
exist - only turbulence. This is the domain of "unknowables".
A leader must first act to establish order, then sense figuring out where
stability is and where it's not, and then respond by working to change the
situation.
Answer: The Chaotic Domain: The Domain Novel Practices
●● Cynefin Simple Domain's Characteristics:
