Curriculum Design & Development Flashcards
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A CHE educator is revising a curriculum using data showing that 40% of students fail a key competency assessment. The FIRST step should be:
Answer: Analyze whether the instruction, materials, or assessment itself needs improvement
Before making changes, the educator must diagnose the cause — poor instruction, inadequate materials, misaligned assessment — rather than react without evidence.
Constructive alignment, a concept developed by John Biggs, means that:
Answer: Learning outcomes, teaching activities, and assessments are aligned with each other
Constructive alignment ensures that what is taught, how it is taught, and how it is assessed are all logically linked to the stated learning outcomes.
An educator designing a flipped classroom model for a hospitality course moves direct instruction to:
Answer: Pre-class video or reading, freeing class time for active practice
In a flipped classroom, learners access lectures or readings outside class, so in-person time is used for discussion, problem-solving, and applied practice.
Which element distinguishes a program-level outcome from a course-level outcome?
Answer: Program outcomes describe what graduates can do; course outcomes address what students achieve in a single course
Program outcomes describe cumulative, graduate-level competencies, while course outcomes are narrower achievements within a single course contributing to those broader goals.
Summative evaluation of a hospitality curriculum is BEST represented by:
Answer: End-of-program graduate employment rates and employer satisfaction surveys
Summative evaluation measures the overall effectiveness of a completed program, often using outcomes like employment rates, licensure pass rates, or graduate surveys.
When incorporating sustainability content into a hospitality curriculum, the most effective approach is to:
Answer: Infuse sustainability competencies across multiple relevant courses
Infusing sustainability across the curriculum reinforces its importance in all hospitality sectors and creates deeper, more transferable learning.
A hospitality educator uses a task analysis when developing curriculum. The primary purpose of a task analysis is to:
Answer: Break down a job or skill into component steps to ensure all are taught
Task analysis deconstructs complex skills into discrete, teachable sub-tasks, ensuring curriculum covers every component needed for competent performance.