Core Concepts & Fundamentals Flashcards

What is a key difference between training and development?

Answer: Training targets current job skills, while development prepares people for future roles

Training builds skills for the present job, while development builds capability for future roles and growth.

What does a task analysis produce?

Answer: A breakdown of the steps, knowledge, and skills needed to do a job task

Task analysis breaks a job into tasks and the KSAs needed to perform each one to standard.

Which assessment method best measures whether a forklift operator can perform safely?

Answer: A performance-based skills demonstration with a checklist

Psychomotor skills are best measured by watching actual performance against set criteria.

A training manager wants to show that a drop in safety incidents came from training and not from other changes. Which technique helps most?

Answer: Using a control group that did not get the training

Comparing trained and untrained groups isolates the effect of training, which is a key step in the Phillips ROI method.

What makes a learning management system (LMS) different from content authoring tools?

Answer: An LMS delivers, tracks, and reports on training, while authoring tools create content

An LMS manages enrollment, delivery, tracking, and reporting, while authoring tools are used to build courses.

Which statement about "learning styles" matching (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) best reflects current research?

Answer: There is little evidence that matching instruction to preferred style improves learning

Controlled studies have generally failed to show that matching instruction to learning style improves learning outcomes.

Which of these is a sign of a well-written training needs analysis report?

Answer: It separates gaps that training can fix from those it cannot

A good analysis says which gaps need training and which need non-training fixes like process, tools, or incentives.