WGU D291 Learning Experience Design Foundations I: Exam 3
- Questions with Correct Answers
50 questions
1. A goal-oriented learning experience means:
A. Activities are designed to help learners reach defined outcomes
B. Learners choose any activity with no purpose
C. Only grades matter
D. Content is covered as quickly as possible
Correct Answer: A. Activities are designed to help learners reach defined outcomes
Rationale: Outcomes drive design.
2. Learning sciences contribute to LXD by providing:
A. Copyright law
B. Research evidence about how people learn
C. Marketing plans
D. Software code
Correct Answer: B. Research evidence about how people learn
Rationale: E.g., spacing and retrieval effects.
3. Stakeholders in a learning design project are:
A. Only learners
B. Only instructors
C. People who have an interest in or are affected by the project
D. Only software vendors
Correct Answer: C. People who have an interest in or are affected by the project
Rationale: Includes sponsors, managers, learners and SMEs.
4. Which field contributes usability and user-centered testing to LXD?
A. Accounting
B. Behavioral economics only
C. User experience (UX) design
D. Law
Correct Answer: C. User experience (UX) design
Rationale: UX focuses on how users interact with products.
5. A community of practice is:
A. A group of people who share a concern and learn together through regular interaction
B. A single class period
C. A test bank
D. An LMS feature
Correct Answer: A. A group of people who share a concern and learn together through
regular interaction
Rationale: Wenger's concept.
6. Piaget's concept of assimilation means:
A. Changing schemas to fit new information
B. Fitting new information into existing schemas
C. Forgetting old knowledge
D. Copying others
Correct Answer: B. Fitting new information into existing schemas
Rationale: Accommodation changes schemas.
, 7. An advance organizer (Ausubel) is used to:
A. Grade learners
B. Punish errors
C. Replace content
D. Connect new information to existing knowledge before instruction
Correct Answer: D. Connect new information to existing knowledge before instruction
Rationale: Provides structure.
8. Which instructional strategy best aligns with cognitivism?
A. Token rewards only
B. Unguided discovery only
C. Using concept maps to organize relationships between ideas
D. Random practice without structure
Correct Answer: C. Using concept maps to organize relationships between ideas
Rationale: Organizing knowledge structures.
9. Adult learners may resist training when:
A. They see no relevance or feel their experience is ignored
B. It respects their experience
C. It solves their problems
D. It is flexible
Correct Answer: A. They see no relevance or feel their experience is ignored
Rationale: Address 'why'.
10. Keller's ARCS model addresses:
A. Accessibility
B. Cognitive load
C. Evaluation levels
D. Learner motivation
Correct Answer: D. Learner motivation
Rationale: Motivational design.
11. Adult learners with full-time jobs benefit most from:
A. Rigid schedules with irrelevant content
B. Long lectures only
C. No feedback
D. Flexible, relevant and efficient learning options
Correct Answer: D. Flexible, relevant and efficient learning options
Rationale: Respect constraints.
12. Cognitive apprenticeship involves:
A. Rote memorization only
B. Modeling, coaching and fading as learners take on expert tasks
C. Unguided discovery
D. Punishment
Correct Answer: B. Modeling, coaching and fading as learners take on expert tasks
Rationale: Collins, Brown and Newman.
- Questions with Correct Answers
50 questions
1. A goal-oriented learning experience means:
A. Activities are designed to help learners reach defined outcomes
B. Learners choose any activity with no purpose
C. Only grades matter
D. Content is covered as quickly as possible
Correct Answer: A. Activities are designed to help learners reach defined outcomes
Rationale: Outcomes drive design.
2. Learning sciences contribute to LXD by providing:
A. Copyright law
B. Research evidence about how people learn
C. Marketing plans
D. Software code
Correct Answer: B. Research evidence about how people learn
Rationale: E.g., spacing and retrieval effects.
3. Stakeholders in a learning design project are:
A. Only learners
B. Only instructors
C. People who have an interest in or are affected by the project
D. Only software vendors
Correct Answer: C. People who have an interest in or are affected by the project
Rationale: Includes sponsors, managers, learners and SMEs.
4. Which field contributes usability and user-centered testing to LXD?
A. Accounting
B. Behavioral economics only
C. User experience (UX) design
D. Law
Correct Answer: C. User experience (UX) design
Rationale: UX focuses on how users interact with products.
5. A community of practice is:
A. A group of people who share a concern and learn together through regular interaction
B. A single class period
C. A test bank
D. An LMS feature
Correct Answer: A. A group of people who share a concern and learn together through
regular interaction
Rationale: Wenger's concept.
6. Piaget's concept of assimilation means:
A. Changing schemas to fit new information
B. Fitting new information into existing schemas
C. Forgetting old knowledge
D. Copying others
Correct Answer: B. Fitting new information into existing schemas
Rationale: Accommodation changes schemas.
, 7. An advance organizer (Ausubel) is used to:
A. Grade learners
B. Punish errors
C. Replace content
D. Connect new information to existing knowledge before instruction
Correct Answer: D. Connect new information to existing knowledge before instruction
Rationale: Provides structure.
8. Which instructional strategy best aligns with cognitivism?
A. Token rewards only
B. Unguided discovery only
C. Using concept maps to organize relationships between ideas
D. Random practice without structure
Correct Answer: C. Using concept maps to organize relationships between ideas
Rationale: Organizing knowledge structures.
9. Adult learners may resist training when:
A. They see no relevance or feel their experience is ignored
B. It respects their experience
C. It solves their problems
D. It is flexible
Correct Answer: A. They see no relevance or feel their experience is ignored
Rationale: Address 'why'.
10. Keller's ARCS model addresses:
A. Accessibility
B. Cognitive load
C. Evaluation levels
D. Learner motivation
Correct Answer: D. Learner motivation
Rationale: Motivational design.
11. Adult learners with full-time jobs benefit most from:
A. Rigid schedules with irrelevant content
B. Long lectures only
C. No feedback
D. Flexible, relevant and efficient learning options
Correct Answer: D. Flexible, relevant and efficient learning options
Rationale: Respect constraints.
12. Cognitive apprenticeship involves:
A. Rote memorization only
B. Modeling, coaching and fading as learners take on expert tasks
C. Unguided discovery
D. Punishment
Correct Answer: B. Modeling, coaching and fading as learners take on expert tasks
Rationale: Collins, Brown and Newman.
