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WGU IDC1 Study Questions and Answers 2023 (Verified Answers) 1.What is the primary purpose of conducting a Needs Analysis ANS To gather initial information about a population that will provide data that can help in making decisions about how to solve a problem. It gives us information at the beginning of the effort to tell us what is needed to improve performance.
2.Who are the people you would ask to participate in a focus group and why ANS Students-they are the ones who the problem is ultimately affecting and you can gather information on their attitudes Teachers-They are the ones that implement instruction and can give information about what works and what does not work.Administrators-Can provide information on what parents share with them as issues and struggles students have across the board academically, not in just one class. Parents-can speak into attitudes on work completion at home and what obstacles are prevalent.
3.Will an interview ever have more than one respondent ANS Yes, it is 1 / 4
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important to find out information from multiple perspectives so that you can gain better insight into the needs of your students.
4.What are the four components of a complete goal statement ANS 1.The learners 2. What Learners will be able to do in the performance context 3. The performance context in which the skills will be applied 4. The tools that will be available to the learners in the performance context.
5.Why do we write goal statements ANS Goal statements are written so that the effect of the implemented instruction that will take place can be measured against specific outcomes with specific circumstances and tools that are available to the learners.
6.What is the value of conducting a Learner Analysis ANS Learner Analysis helps us shape our instruction and also how the instruction is delivered, accounting for the specific grouping of learners that we will have. This can also determine what instructional strategies should be used and if the strategies should be behavioral, cognitive, or constructivism based.
7.Why is it important to identify entry-level skills ANS It is important to 2 / 4
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identify entry-level skills since new learning will be built upon the foundations of what students already know in relation to the content.If misconceptions are present, then the new learning will be built upon the misconceptions.
8.Which type of assessment measures entry-level skills ANS Interviewing your target learners, and/or supervisors. Giving a pretest with problems that determine mastery of a certain skill or skillset. 3 / 4
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9.Why is it important to measure prior knowledge ANS It is so important to mea- sure prior knowledge since learners build new learning upon whatever knowledge they currently have. This has implications on whether or not the new learning will meet the instructional goal since new learning on a misconception could very well be different from the goal.
10.Which type of assessment measures prior knowledge ANS Interview target learners and/or supervisors. Observe other teachers in the content area in a performance setting. Use a pretest such as the one used to determine skills.
11.What is a task analysis (goal analysis/instructional analysis) ANS Task analy- sis is the collection of procedures for defining the content of an instructional unit. It Identifies the content required to solve the performance problem. Subtle steps that are needed to solve the problem are more easily identified since the analysis is step by step.And during the process the task designer has an opportunity to look through the lens of the learner themselves, and ultimately design instruction around what works for those learners.
12.What are the parts of Mager's three-part performance objectives? Give an example of each ANS 1. The first part describes the skill identified in
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