Curriculum Development & Instructional Design Flashcards
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A nurse educator uses reflective journaling as a course assignment. Which learning theory most strongly supports this practice?
Answer: Experiential Learning Theory (Kolb)
Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory emphasizes reflection on experience as a key step in the learning cycle, making reflective journaling a direct application of this framework.
When faculty disagree about whether a topic belongs in a specific course, which curriculum committee action is most appropriate?
Answer: Reference the program's curriculum map and outcome alignment
A curriculum map showing outcome alignment provides an objective basis for deciding where content best fits, reducing reliance on individual faculty preference.
Which assessment method is most appropriate for evaluating affective domain learning in nursing students?
Answer: Clinical observation with reflective debriefing
Affective domain learning (values, attitudes, professional behaviors) is best assessed through observed behaviors in context combined with reflective debriefing to explore underlying beliefs.
A nurse educator designs a flipped classroom. What is the primary shift in this model?
Answer: Content delivery moves outside class; class time is used for active application
In a flipped classroom, students engage with new content (lectures, readings) before class, freeing class time for active learning, problem-solving, and application.
Which curriculum model uses a systematic process of identifying job tasks and deriving educational content directly from workforce requirements?
Answer: Competency-based/task analysis model
The competency-based/task analysis model derives curriculum content by analyzing the actual tasks and competencies required in professional practice, ensuring workforce relevance.
A nurse educator notices students are overwhelmed when too much new information is presented simultaneously. This is best explained by which theory?
Answer: Cognitive Load Theory
Cognitive Load Theory (Sweller) explains that working memory has limited capacity, and presenting too much new information at once overwhelms learners and impedes learning.
Which document serves as the primary road map showing how courses, learning outcomes, and competencies relate across an entire nursing program?
Answer: Curriculum map
A curriculum map visually displays the relationships among courses, outcomes, and competencies across the entire program, enabling faculty to identify gaps, redundancies, and alignment issues.