Curriculum Design & Development Flashcards
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An accreditation body requires a hospitality program to submit a curriculum map. This document primarily shows:
Answer: How courses align with program-level learning outcomes
A curriculum map visually links individual courses to program-level outcomes, demonstrating where competencies are introduced, reinforced, and assessed.
In the ADDIE instructional design model, what occurs during the 'Analysis' phase?
Answer: Identifying learner characteristics and performance gaps
The Analysis phase of ADDIE gathers information about learners, tasks, and environment to define what needs to be taught.
Formative evaluation of a hospitality curriculum is best described as:
Answer: Ongoing assessment used to improve the curriculum during development or delivery
Formative evaluation collects data during development or instruction to make improvements before or during the program.
Which level of Bloom's Taxonomy requires learners to judge the value of information based on criteria — the highest-order cognitive skill?
Answer: Evaluation
In the original Bloom's Taxonomy, Evaluation is the highest cognitive level, requiring learners to make judgments based on criteria and standards.
A CHE candidate is developing a new food safety module. Which strategy best ensures vertical alignment within the hospitality curriculum?
Answer: Ensuring content builds logically across course levels without unnecessary repetition
Vertical alignment ensures that content at one level logically prepares students for content at the next level, creating coherent progression.
When designing a hospitality curriculum for adult learners, an educator applying andragogy should emphasize:
Answer: Self-directed learning drawing on learners' prior experience
Andragogy, Knowles' adult learning theory, stresses self-direction, relevance, problem-centered learning, and leveraging learners' experience.
A hospitality educator wants to include authentic assessments in a new curriculum. Which of the following is the best example?
Answer: A simulated hotel front-desk check-in role-play evaluated with a rubric
Authentic assessments require learners to perform real-world tasks that demonstrate their competencies in contexts similar to actual hospitality situations.