CTP Certification Study Site (Updates based on 2016 Competencies Underway)

Everything you need to get ready to pass the CTP Certification Exam!

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Certified Training Practitioner (CTP) Designation

Gain access to valuable resources and tools (24/7 for one year) to prepare to write The Institute for Performance and Learning's CTP Certification Exam.

• Certification Success Best Practices Checklist
• Recommended Exam Resources – Reading Planner
• Book Summarizer Worksheets – for The Institute’s Recommended Reading List
• Exam Content (Beyond the Books) – Google Exercise
• Facilitating Training Glossary / Robert Mager Books Glossary

Online Practice Exam (Facilitating Training Competency Category - 50 questions & answers  

Have questions about the study site? CONTACT: [email protected] 

Why Learnware Design’s CTP/CTDP Study Sites?

The CTP and CTDP Certification Study Sites were designed and developed by Valerie Dixon, M.Ed., CTDP, President of Learnware Design Inc.  She is an expert Training & Development professional who has been in the Training and Development field for over 40 years.

Valerie also coached many of the Institute’s study groups as well as individuals (one-on-one).  She knows what it takes to successfully achieve the CTP and CTDP professional designations.

Learnware Design Inc. was the creator/designer of the Institute for Performance and Learning’s (IPL) Training Competency Architecture (TCA) and Toolkit. The TCA and Toolkit were the foundational documents used to support the Certified Training and Development Professional designations (CTP and CTDP), and served to establish the standards against which Training and Development professionals seeking certification were assessed.

What Users Are Saying About Learnware Design’s CTP/CTDP Study Sites and Virtual Study Groups:

• A quick note to let you know that I passed the written exam today…whoo hoo! Thank you so much for all your guidance and support over the past months, you made this experience bearable! Your study site gave me the confidence that I needed to walk into the exam feeling prepared.
• Valerie’s guidance, advice and sessions were the best prep! Just focus on the books that Valerie emphasized.
• Valerie you have been great help throughout, I really wish to thank you once again!
• …your program was wonderful and a great help! Many thanks! 
• Valerie, I am thrilled to share with you today that I have passed my CTDP. Thank you for all your support.
• Thank you so much for your assistance. I know that your guidance and advice helped a great deal.
• Thanks so much Valerie for the great support and guidance – your practice exams were a great help.
• I really appreciate your guidance throughout the process. It was a wonderful experience!
• I wrote the CTDP exam this past weekend and I’m happy to report that I passed! It was a tough exam, but if you read all of the books, use Valerie’s book summarizers and do the Google exercises (especially on classroom management for adults), you should pass.
• Just wanted to share the good news that my live Facilitating Learning demo went well on Saturday and I passed. Thank you for all your invaluable help, support and guidance!  Greatly appreciated!
• Thank you so very much – even these words can’t express the great support you have extended throughout this process. I owe this one to you.
• I finally found the time to write my CTDP exam the other day. I passed and I could not have done it without you. Thank you for all of your help, and please keep in touch.
• Thank you Valerie. I passed with 82%. Not the mark I wanted, but I made it through. I absolutely wouldn’t have made it through without your prep course. Thank you very much for creating this site.
• I just completed my CTDP exam and I passed.  I wanted to thank you for your awesome study tool and I will always recommend it to anyone who will aspire to get their CTDP designation.  I am very pleased and relieved.
• I wrote the exam this morning and passed with a grade of 80%!  Due to a variety of circumstances, I only started studying early January. I was very concerned about failing the exam. Your site was very helpful and a valuable resource.
• I have passed my CTDP knowledge exam.  All I needed were your practice exam questions which were golden!  The actual exam did, however, have lots of questions with multiple selection answers that are very tricky.
• Just a quick note to thank you again for pointing me in the Learnware direction, I just finished my CTDP exam and am very pleased to tell you that I was successful thanks to your program and support materials.  Thank you for the excellent resources and support!
• Hey Valerie wanted to let you know what I just passed the test (78%) thank you very much for your material, your website and practice exams have helped a lot!! 
• I wanted to thank you for your feedback for my live skill demo materials.  The time and effort is truly appreciated. I passed and will be getting the designation! 
• Just wanted to share the good news that my live Facilitating Learning demo went well on Saturday and I passed.  Thank you for all your invaluable help, support and guidance!  Greatly appreciated!  If I can ever help you by writing a testimonial of some sort, please do not hesitate to ask.  Thanks again and have a great week! 
• I finally found the time to write my CTDP exam the other day. I passed and I could not have done it without you. Thank you for all of your help, and please keep in touch. 
• Thank you so very much – even these words are less for the great support you have extended throughout this process. I owe this one to you.  Hope we are meeting at the president dinner next month. Look forward to meet and thank you personally even before, if possible.
• I was successful as well (81%), but I must say some of those questions were tricky. I used the flagging quite a bit!  Thank you so much for your assistance. I know that your guidance and advice helped a great deal.