Curriculum Design & Development Flashcards

A CRI instructor wants to reduce cognitive overload for beginning steno students. Which instructional strategy BEST addresses this goal?

Answer: Chunking new information into small, manageable segments

Chunking breaks complex material into smaller units, reducing cognitive overload by limiting the amount of new information processed at once.

Which curriculum design approach organizes content around real-world professional tasks rather than academic subjects or disciplines?

Answer: Problem-centered design

Problem-centered design organizes curriculum around real-life tasks and problems students will face in their professional roles.

When conducting a curriculum mapping exercise, what is the primary goal?

Answer: Documenting what is taught, when, and how it aligns with outcomes

Curriculum mapping documents the content, skills, and assessments across courses to identify gaps, redundancies, and alignment with program outcomes.

In criterion-referenced assessment used in court reporting programs, student performance is compared to:

Answer: A predetermined standard or level of mastery

Criterion-referenced assessment measures performance against a fixed standard (e.g., 95% accuracy at 225 wpm) rather than against peers.

Which learning theory most directly supports the use of immediate corrective feedback in steno speed drills?

Answer: Behaviorism

Behaviorism emphasizes reinforcement and corrective feedback to shape behavior, making it highly applicable to skill-drilling in court reporting training.

A court reporting program wants to integrate real-time courtroom scenarios into the curriculum. This approach is BEST supported by which learning theory?

Answer: Situated learning theory

Situated learning theory, associated with Lave and Wenger, posits that learning is most effective when embedded in authentic, real-world contexts.

When a CRI instructor revises a course based on poor student performance data, this action is BEST described as:

Answer: Curriculum evaluation and revision

Using student performance data to identify weaknesses and revise a course is a core function of continuous curriculum evaluation and improvement.