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Certified Nurse Educator

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


2. '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






3. Creating / Synthesis Construct - Develop - Formulate


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






5. Critique - Evaluate - Judge






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






7. 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






8. Analyzing - Evaluating - Creating






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






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






11. All behavior is learned and can be shaped / rewarded to attain desired ends.






12. Facts - ideas - materials - trends - sequences - methodology - principles - & generalizations.






13. Power is shared






14. 0-1.00 - Correspondence between 2 tests or measures - Standardized tests >0.9 - Classroom tests 0.7-0.8






15. Occurs when questions involve problem solving






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






17. Frames issues & provides choices for faculty






18. Reinforces knowledge rather than learning new material - Imagery Stimulates critical thinking by exploring mental models. - Decreases anxiety--increases skill performance.






19. 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






20. Creating analogies - writing summaries - Explaining to a peer - Pair or team discussions - Answering questions during a lecture - Viewing Power Points






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






22. 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.






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


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






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






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






27. Collaborative learning - Socratic questioning - Debates






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






29. Emphasizes problem solving rather than the content of specific subjects. Student centered - Goal oriented inquiry which leads learners to problem solving. Students assisted to develop the self through field trips - lab work - simulation; apply learni






30. Focus is on: What is truth?






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






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






33. The liberation for thought occurs through analysis of power and relationships within social structure information.






34. Requires evidence of effective teaching and dissemination of knowledge acquired as a result of teaching; curriculum development - use of innovative teaching/learning strategies; dissemination of teaching knowledge/expertise.






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






36. Leader manages 'by the book' - everything by procedure or policy. If not covered by 'the book' leader refers to the next level - not facilitate curriculum






37. Focus is on: What is good?






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






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






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






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






42. Discussion - Developing Poster presentation - Portfolio - Journaling - Simulation






43. 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


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






45. Remembering - Understanding - Applying






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






47. Demonstration - Followed by practice - Return demonstration






48. Intellectual growth - activism - and empowerment can change injustice and inequity for all persons. Florence Nightingale.






49. Occurs while learning process is unfolding.






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