This unit tests one boundary: which named things the BASK calls instructional design models, and what you do before you design anything at all.
The instructional design models list
- ADDIE — analysis, design, development, implementation, evaluation.
- The successive approximation model (SAM) — the BASK-named model built on iterative prototyping cycles, the alternative to a long waterfall build.
- Action mapping — designing toward performance.
- Bloom's taxonomy.
- Generative AI and other technological tools — the technology item in the 2025 BASK's design models list.
What is not on it
- The learning everywhere model, VAK learning styles and the 70-20-10 model are adult learning theories. They describe where and how adults learn, not how a course is built.
- Person, organization, training and cost-benefit are needs analysis types.
- Individual development plans and SMART goals are goal-setting best practices.
Every distractor in this unit is a genuine BASK term sitting in the wrong list. If an item asks for an instructional design model, three of the four choices will be real BASK vocabulary from somewhere else.
Analysis comes first
A manager asking for a two-day refresher class next month has proposed a solution, not defined a problem. The keyed action is to conduct an organization and person needs analysis before committing to a training solution.
- ADDIE begins with analysis, and the BASK names four needs analysis types for exactly this reason.
- You do not yet know whether the gap is skill, process or staffing — so you do not yet know whether it is a KSAO gap at all.
- Running the class first delivers a solution before the problem is defined, and measures only reaction.
- Writing SMART goals for the operators is a real best practice, but it presumes the cause is individual effort, which no analysis has established.
Diagnose the cause; do not buy the requested symptom fix.