CPI Technology-Enhanced Learning 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which accessibility standard is most commonly applied when designing online course content for postsecondary students with disabilities?
- Section 504
- WCAG 2.1 (Correct answer)
- ADA Title I
- FERPA
Correct answer: WCAG 2.1
WCAG 2.1 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) provides the technical standards used to make digital course content accessible to users with disabilities.
Question 2: A student submits an assignment using an AI writing tool without disclosure. Under most institutional academic integrity policies, this situation is best addressed by:
- Immediately issuing a failing grade for the course
- Reviewing the institution's AI use policy and following its stated procedures (Correct answer)
- Ignoring it if the work appears of high quality
- Contacting law enforcement about copyright infringement
Correct answer: Reviewing the institution's AI use policy and following its stated procedures
Instructors should follow established institutional AI use and academic integrity policies before taking any disciplinary action.
Question 3: Which pedagogical approach is most directly supported by adaptive learning platforms that adjust content based on student performance data?
- Behaviorism
- Connectivism
- Mastery learning (Correct answer)
- Social constructivism
Correct answer: Mastery learning
Adaptive learning platforms align with mastery learning by ensuring students demonstrate competency before advancing to the next concept.
Question 4: An instructor wants to reduce cognitive load in an online module. Which of the following design decisions best achieves this?
- Including all course resources on a single page
- Breaking content into short, focused segments with clear navigation (Correct answer)
- Using multiple simultaneous audio and video streams
- Presenting all learning objectives at the end of the module
Correct answer: Breaking content into short, focused segments with clear navigation
Chunking content into short, focused segments reduces extraneous cognitive load and supports working memory capacity.
Question 5: In a synchronous online class, an instructor notices that participation has dropped sharply. The FIRST diagnostic step should be to:
- Replace the synchronous sessions with recorded lectures
- Survey students about technical difficulties and engagement barriers (Correct answer)
- Lower the participation grade weight
- Assign additional readings to re-engage students
Correct answer: Survey students about technical difficulties and engagement barriers
Surveying students identifies root causes — whether technical, motivational, or instructional — before implementing solutions.
Question 6: A learning management system's gradebook shows that 60% of students scored below 70% on an online quiz. This data most appropriately triggers which instructor action?
- Curving all grades upward by 10 points
- Reviewing quiz items for ambiguity and re-teaching the underlying concepts (Correct answer)
- Removing the quiz from the grade calculation
- Sending an email warning students to study harder
Correct answer: Reviewing quiz items for ambiguity and re-teaching the underlying concepts
Low class-wide performance signals a need to examine both item quality and instructional effectiveness before assigning blame to students.
Question 7: Which of the following BEST describes the role of metadata in a digital learning object repository?
- It encrypts content to prevent unauthorized access
- It describes the object so it can be found, reused, and cataloged efficiently (Correct answer)
- It measures student engagement with the content
- It formats content for mobile device display
Correct answer: It describes the object so it can be found, reused, and cataloged efficiently
Metadata tags (title, subject, learning objective, format) enable search, discovery, and reuse of learning objects across platforms.
CPI Technology-Enhanced Learning 2
Which accessibility standard is most commonly applied when designing online course content for postsecondary students with disabilities?