Curriculum Design & Development Flashcards
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Horizontal alignment in curriculum design ensures that:
Answer: Content within the same course level is consistent and complementary across sections
Horizontal alignment coordinates content, skills, and assessments across courses taught at the same level or within the same semester.
Which document typically serves as the official guide for what an instructor must teach in a hospitality course?
Answer: Master Course Outline (MCO)
A Master Course Outline (also called a Course Outline of Record) is the official institutional document specifying required content, outcomes, and assessment for a course.
A program review in hospitality education primarily serves to:
Answer: Systematically evaluate and improve the curriculum based on data
Program review uses enrollment, completion, and outcome data to evaluate curriculum effectiveness and guide improvements.
When writing a course-level student learning outcome (SLO), an educator should use verbs that are:
Answer: Observable and measurable, drawn from Bloom's Taxonomy
Effective SLOs use action verbs tied to Bloom's Taxonomy (e.g., analyze, demonstrate, evaluate) to specify observable, measurable student behavior.
Industry advisory committees in hospitality programs are most valuable during curriculum development because they:
Answer: Provide real-world perspective on current competency requirements
Advisory committees of industry professionals ensure curricula reflect current workplace skills, technology, and expectations.
Transfer of learning in hospitality curriculum design refers to:
Answer: Students applying knowledge and skills learned in class to new workplace situations
Transfer of learning occurs when learners apply what they've learned in training to new contexts, which is a key goal of hospitality curriculum.
Which approach to curriculum development is characterized by starting with broad, societal goals and then working down to specific course content?
Answer: Society-centered (reconstructionist) design
Society-centered or reconstructionist curriculum design begins with broad social or economic goals and derives specific content from what society needs.