Educational Psychology Principles Flashcards
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According to Knowles's andragogy model, which characteristic best describes adult learners compared to child learners?
Answer: Adults are self-directed and draw on life experience
Andragogy holds that adult learners are self-directed, internally motivated, and bring rich prior experience to learning.
A grant administrator designs a training that requires participants to apply newly learned budget procedures to a realistic case study. This approach reflects which learning principle?
Answer: Transfer of learning
Transfer of learning occurs when learners apply knowledge or skills from training to real-world contexts.
Bloom's Taxonomy lists six cognitive levels. Which level requires learners to break content into parts and examine how components relate?
Answer: Analysis
Analysis involves decomposing material into its constituent parts and identifying relationships among them.
A grant program officer notices that new trainees learn federal compliance rules faster when content is chunked into small segments. This aligns with which cognitive psychology concept?
Answer: Working memory capacity limits
Working memory has a limited capacity, so chunking information reduces cognitive load and improves learning.
Which evaluation model assesses training effectiveness across four levels: reaction, learning, behavior, and results?
Answer: Kirkpatrick Model
The Kirkpatrick Model evaluates training at four progressive levels from participant satisfaction to organizational impact.
When designing grant management training, providing immediate corrective feedback on practice exercises primarily supports which learning theory?
Answer: Behaviorism
Behaviorism emphasizes reinforcement and feedback to shape and strengthen desired behaviors.
A grant administrator observes that staff perform compliance tasks better after watching a competent colleague demonstrate the procedure. This exemplifies which concept?
Answer: Observational learning (modeling)
Bandura's social learning theory states that people can learn by observing and imitating others' behavior.