CHE Curriculum Design & Development 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: An accreditation body requires a hospitality program to submit a curriculum map. This document primarily shows:
- Faculty salary schedules
- How courses align with program-level learning outcomes (Correct answer)
- Student enrollment trends over five years
- Kitchen equipment inventory
Correct 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.
Question 2: In the ADDIE instructional design model, what occurs during the 'Analysis' phase?
- Developing course materials and assessments
- Identifying learner characteristics and performance gaps (Correct answer)
- Piloting the course with a small group
- Revising materials based on evaluation data
Correct 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.
Question 3: Formative evaluation of a hospitality curriculum is best described as:
- A final grade assigned at the end of a course
- Ongoing assessment used to improve the curriculum during development or delivery (Correct answer)
- A one-time external accreditation review
- Standardized testing administered nationally
Correct 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.
Question 4: Which level of Bloom's Taxonomy requires learners to judge the value of information based on criteria — the highest-order cognitive skill?
- Application
- Analysis
- Synthesis
- Evaluation (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Evaluation
In the original Bloom's Taxonomy, Evaluation is the highest cognitive level, requiring learners to make judgments based on criteria and standards.
Question 5: A CHE candidate is developing a new food safety module. Which strategy best ensures vertical alignment within the hospitality curriculum?
- Using the same textbook across all courses
- Ensuring content builds logically across course levels without unnecessary repetition (Correct answer)
- Scheduling all food safety content in a single intensive week
- Assigning the same instructor to teach every course
Correct 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.
Question 6: When designing a hospitality curriculum for adult learners, an educator applying andragogy should emphasize:
- Strict teacher-directed instruction with minimal student input
- Self-directed learning drawing on learners' prior experience (Correct answer)
- Memorization of facts with frequent quizzes
- Passive listening to lectures as the primary mode
Correct 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.
Question 7: A hospitality educator wants to include authentic assessments in a new curriculum. Which of the following is the best example?
- A 50-question multiple-choice final exam
- A simulated hotel front-desk check-in role-play evaluated with a rubric (Correct answer)
- A weekly vocabulary quiz
- A research paper on hotel history
Correct 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.
CHE Curriculum Design & Development 3
An accreditation body requires a hospitality program to submit a curriculum map.
This document primarily shows: