CRI Instructional Design & Delivery 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which of Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction directly addresses capturing student attention at the start of a lesson?
- Providing learning guidance
- Gaining attention (Correct answer)
- Eliciting performance
- Informing learners of objectives
Correct answer: Gaining attention
Gaining attention is the first of Gagne's Nine Events and is essential for priming learners to receive new information.
Question 2: An instructor wants to address multiple learning styles in a single lesson on punctuation theory. The BEST approach is to:
- Create separate lessons for each learning style
- Use multimodal instruction combining visual, auditory, and kinesthetic elements (Correct answer)
- Allow students to self-select their preferred modality and opt out of others
- Focus exclusively on the dominant learning style of the class majority
Correct answer: Use multimodal instruction combining visual, auditory, and kinesthetic elements
Multimodal instruction addresses diverse learner preferences and reinforces content through multiple sensory channels simultaneously.
Question 3: A CRI instructor uses 'think-aloud' modeling during a punctuation lesson. The PRIMARY purpose of this technique is to:
- Demonstrate the instructor's expertise to the class
- Make implicit decision-making processes visible to students (Correct answer)
- Save time compared to written explanations
- Assess student comprehension in real time
Correct answer: Make implicit decision-making processes visible to students
Think-aloud modeling externalizes the expert's cognitive process, giving students a mental model for their own decision-making.
Question 4: Which strategy is MOST effective when a student reports anxiety that impairs performance on speed takes?
- Eliminate timed assessments from the curriculum
- Provide test-taking strategy coaching and incremental exposure to timed conditions (Correct answer)
- Allow the student to skip speed takes and rely on transcript reviews only
- Increase the frequency of speed takes without other intervention
Correct answer: Provide test-taking strategy coaching and incremental exposure to timed conditions
Test anxiety is best addressed through skill-building, coping strategies, and gradual exposure to evaluation conditions rather than avoidance or raw repetition.
Question 5: When an online CRI course replaces synchronous class time with asynchronous modules, the instructor must ESPECIALLY ensure:
- Modules are shorter than 10 minutes each
- Frequent, timely feedback mechanisms are built into the asynchronous environment (Correct answer)
- Students complete modules in a strict sequential order with no flexibility
- All content is delivered via text to minimize bandwidth issues
Correct answer: Frequent, timely feedback mechanisms are built into the asynchronous environment
Without scheduled class meetings, proactive feedback mechanisms are critical to prevent students from practicing errors undetected.
Question 6: The primary purpose of a lesson's stated learning objective is to:
- Satisfy accreditation documentation requirements
- Communicate to students exactly what they will be able to do by the end of instruction (Correct answer)
- Outline the instructor's teaching activities
- Describe the topic content to be covered
Correct answer: Communicate to students exactly what they will be able to do by the end of instruction
Learning objectives are learner-facing statements that specify the observable behavior students will demonstrate after instruction.
Question 7: Which term describes breaking a complex skill like real-time captioning into sub-skills taught in progressive stages?
- Scaffolding
- Task analysis (Correct answer)
- Chunking
- Backward chaining
Correct answer: Task analysis
Task analysis deconstructs a complex skill into its component sub-skills, enabling systematic, progressive instruction.
CRI Instructional Design & Delivery 4
Which of Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction directly addresses capturing student attention at the start of a lesson?