Curriculum Development & Design Flashcards
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A police academy is revising its curriculum to meet new state standards. Which source should carry the MOST weight when establishing course content requirements?
Answer: State POST commission standards and job task analysis results
POST commission standards and job task analysis data provide authoritative, legally defensible bases for curriculum content.
During a needs assessment for a new fire suppression curriculum, a training manager conducts surveys, interviews, and observations. This process is BEST described as:
Answer: Front-end analysis
Front-end analysis gathers data about performance gaps and learner needs before curriculum development begins.
An instructor designs a public safety course where each new topic deliberately revisits and expands on concepts from earlier lessons. This design strategy reflects the:
Answer: Spiral curriculum approach
The spiral curriculum, associated with Bruner, revisits concepts at increasing levels of complexity across the course.
Which of the following BEST describes criterion-referenced assessment in a public safety curriculum?
Answer: Measuring student performance against a predetermined standard
Criterion-referenced assessment evaluates whether each student meets a defined performance standard, regardless of how peers perform.
A hazmat instructor wants to ensure curriculum content is job-relevant. Which tool would BEST validate that training tasks directly reflect actual hazmat technician duties?
Answer: Job task analysis (JTA)
A job task analysis systematically identifies the actual tasks performed on the job and is the gold standard for ensuring curriculum relevance.
When developing a blended learning curriculum for EMS continuing education, what is a PRIMARY advantage of incorporating online pre-work before hands-on labs?
Answer: It allows lab time to focus on higher-order psychomotor and scenario skills
Pre-work allows knowledge acquisition online so that valuable lab time is used for practice and application rather than lecture.
Which curriculum characteristic ensures that content, objectives, instructional methods, and assessments all align with each other?
Answer: Constructive alignment
Constructive alignment means that learning outcomes, teaching activities, and assessments are deliberately designed to support each other.