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Certified Nurse Educator

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Remembering - Understanding - Applying






2. Insufficient length (min. 25 mult. choice) - Insufficient group variability - Test scores to a smaller group of (N) will decrease reliability






3. Reports - tables - diagrams - directions - & regulations






4. Eliminates adversarial relationships. Education consists of an integration of humanistic-existential - phenomenological - feminist and caring ideologies.






5. Occurs when a leader develops in a particular situation. Switching instinctively between styles






6. Individual or group projects - Debating ethical issues - Participating in case studies - Conducting research - Completing nursing care maps - Critiquing peer's performance






7. Completed at the end of a course/program - The final outcome.






8. Positive reinforcement & reward. Student subject to natural law; motivated to learn through positive reinforcement; rewarded for scientific objectivity and objective analysis (Realism Philosophy).






9. Define - Identify - List - Recognize - Cite - know - match - memorize - name - recall - recite - relate - repeat - reproduce - review - state - tell






10. Encompasses fine motor - gross motor and manual skills. Commonly used in clinical techniques - Learners might physically do skills






11. Teaching strategy...small teams each w/ learners of different levels use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject. Each person is responsible for learning and helping teammates learn.






12. Kuder Richardson - Split-half Reliability Coefficient - Coefficient Alpha






13. Learning is interactive and occurs in a social/historical context. Knowledge - ideas - attitudes and values are developed as a result of relationships with people.






14. OLD (Nouns) - NEW (Verbs) - 6 Levels: Synthesis (Creating) - Evaluation - Analysis (Analyzing) - Application (Applying) - Comprehension (Understanding ) - Knowledge (Remembering)






15. Describe - Explain - Summarize - Discuss - Review - Express - Indicate - Locate - report - restate - Reword - Select






16. Focuses on the need of society rather than the individual & is not reflective of an emphasis on problem solving. Student to experience inquiry thru active learning and exploration; involvement in social and community activities. (Pragmatist Philosoph






17. Focuses on energizing people to perform at a higher level.






18. An analysis of a clinical situation or incident - Learner must analyze and interpret the data provided






19. Teaching to Cognitive Domain Cooperative learning - AV presentations - Lecture - Discussion - Concept Mapping - Analogies






20. Breaking down material or information into its constituent parts and detecting the relationship of the parts and the way they are organized. Organizing - Prioritizing - Differentiating






21. Conditions of learning influence acquisition/retention by modifying existing cognitive structures. Assimilation - accommodation and construction of knowledge are the basic processes of learning.






22. Nursing labs with return demonstration - Simple problem-solving in class -Developing nursing care plans - Role playing






23. Using empathy - Setting an example - Counseling - Journaling - Role modeling






24. Based on knowledge & traditional content - does not emphasize problem solving






25. Learners find own information. Education motivates the development of human potential. Encouraged to freely choose own path to learning; assume responsibility for life (Existential Philosophy).






26. Collaborative learning - Socratic questioning - Debates






27. Occurs when questions involve problem solving






28. Applying ideas - rules of procedure - methods - formulae - principles - & theories in job related situations






29. Human beings have unique profiles composed of varying degrees of eight and one half research-based intelligences.






30. Power in the hands of the leader. Does not provide for sharing of power needed for faculty to adopt a new curriculum. Collaboration is needed.






31. Compare - Contrast - Differentiate - Analyze - Appraise - Calculate - Categorize Criticize/Critique -Delineate - Determine - Discriminate - Distinguish - Investigate - Organize - Question - Test






32. P values (intended) .70-.80 (ideal) - Can be .3-.8 (bell curve) - 1.00 - Upper limits of P value - 100% answered question correctly






33. Adults are self-directed and problem centered and need to learn useful information.






34. Apply - Demonstrate - Use - Develop - Examine - Employ - Illustrate - practice - Schedule - Solve - write






35. 'Hands off' style - leader provides little or no direction to faculty Gives a lot of freedom - must decide & resolve on their own. Would not facilitate a new curriculum. Free-Rein Leadership






36. Viewing films - Assigned reading - Listening to lectures - Observing demonstrations - Listening to conversation - Program instruction






37. Dialogue - Peer Sharing - Story Telling Interpretive approach to teaching/learning - Evolves from lived experiences of teachers & learners. - Insights are gleaned from practical wisdom/knowledge. - Promotes truth seeking - caring & affective learning






38. Learner focuses on acquisition and recall of specific facts - concepts and principles. Simple (knowledge) to complex (synthesis/evaluation).






39. Analyzing - Evaluating - Creating






40. Educator models the behavior; information flows form educator to learner. Student encouraged to expand the mind by inquiry - discovery - aesthetics - synthesis and application of knowledge to life. Belief in strong liberal arts foundation. (Idealism






41. Truth is related to specific context and is constantly being constructed.






42. Share relevant stories to facilitate content & skills acquisition. A practical discourse using nine themes allows education to be gained thru experiences of teachers - students and clinicians to direct nursing education.






43. Frames issues & provides choices for faculty






44. Focuses on getting the job done - Chairperson engages faculty in the development & adoption of a new curriculum.






45. Link concepts w/ arrow to describe the direction of the relationship - Makes learning an active process rather than a passive one.






46. Focuses on choices & individualism ...not problem solving






47. Dialogue & reflection. Understanding the hows and whys of human experience. Perception of events results in learning.






48. Excellent critical thinking teaching strategy






49. Connects theory to practice; 'How can knowledge be responsibly applied to consequential problems?' - Service to boards and organizations - policy development.






50. Reasoning - Inference - Interpretation- Knowledge - Open-mindedness