Questions and Verified Answers
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Validity - Correct Answer -The extent to which a tool or instrument measures or
predicts what it is supposed to.
Reliability - Correct Answer -Consistency in measurement of a specific attribute by
instrument or tool
Idealism - Correct Answer --Plato, Socrates
- Ideas are important
- People would like to live in a perfect world
- Interactive immersion education i.e. serious gaming in an ideal worl
Perennialism - Correct Answer -- Traditional education style
- Teacher driven
- Reading, writing and arithmetic are important
,information processing - Correct Answer -- Gagne
- Describes how information is received, stored and processed in the mind
- Learning is a function of the brain
- Memory is a process of sensory input that goes to short term to long term
Realism (Positivism) - Correct Answer -- Aristotle
- science can be viewed objectively and analyzed
- develops knowledge that is value and context free
Essentialism - Correct Answer -- Bagley, Hirsh
- Traditional Learning approach
- knowledge passed from educator to the learner (teacher directed)
- physical world is the true world
Nominal scale - Correct Answer -classifies data into distinct categories in which no
ranking is implied
Ordinal scale - Correct Answer -a scale of measurement in which the
measurement categories form a rank order along a continuum
,Face validity - Correct Answer -the extent to which a test item appears to fit the
particular trait it is measuring
Content validity - Correct Answer -Refers to the appropriateness of each item and
comprehensiveness of the measurement
Inter rater reliability - Correct Answer -consistency across two or more raters
Benner - Correct Answer -stages of nursing proficiency: novice, advanced
beginner, competent, proficient, expert
Behaviorism - Correct Answer -- Pavlov, Watson, Skinner
- Stimulus response is the basis for learning-- modification of behavior --> control
- positive reinforcement is used to encourage acceptable behavior
- teacher centered: objectives guide learning
CONs: can't explain motivations.
, Pragmatism - Correct Answer --Dewey, Pierce
- ideas can be tested scientifically
Progressivism - Correct Answer -- Dewey
- school mimics society
- real life curriculum and problem solving exercises
- learner have choices on what to learn
- Learner centred
Construct validity - Correct Answer -- test accurately represents the concept being
evaluated
High level facilitation - Correct Answer -- Facilitator outlines the debriefing process
- Facilitator guides the discussion when necessary
- Facilitator has low level involvement
- Learners are highly involved
Low level facilitation - Correct Answer --Learners are less involved and have less
initiative
- Facilitators use a direct debriefing process