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Fundamentals of Instructing (FOI) Knowledge Test cheat sheet

A one-page summary of the FOI tasks (FAA-S-ACS-25, Area of Operation I).

Human behavior and communication

  • Maslow: physiological → safety → belonging → esteem → self-actualization
  • Defense mechanisms: rationalization, projection, denial, compensation, repression
  • Communication: source, symbols, receiver; biggest barrier = lack of common experience

Learning process

  • Laws: readiness, exercise, effect, primacy, intensity, recency
  • Levels: rote → understanding → application → correlation
  • Domains: cognitive, affective, psychomotor; skills: cognitive → associative → automatic

Teaching and lessons

  • Teaching process: preparation, presentation, application, assessment
  • Lesson: introduction (attention, motivation, overview), development, conclusion
  • Demonstration-performance: explain, demonstrate, learner performs, evaluate

Assessment, professionalism and risk

  • Tests: valid, reliable, usable, objective, comprehensive, discriminating
  • Grading: describe, explain, practice, perform; 4 Rs: replay, reconstruct, reflect, redirect
  • Positive three-step exchange of controls; 3P model; DECIDE

Test yourself on FOI

Reading a summary is the easy part. Take the free 10-question diagnostic to see which of these domains you actually have, then drill the rest.