NUR648 Nursing Education Seminar

Week 8 Assignment Benchmark – Curriculum Design and Program Evaluation

Curriculum design is an essential part of a program design and it guides stakeholders to achieve overall desired course and program outcomes. Program evaluation is a routine assessment of various parts of a program and a measure of intended goals. Program evaluation is done for a variety of purposes, including evaluating program implementation, determining program effectiveness, providing direction, and guiding improvements. The purpose of this assignment is to become familiar with the program evaluation process.

Use the program outcomes on the example lesson plan in Chapter 10 of the Teaching in Nursing: A Guide for Faculty textbook. Create a hypothetical course framework that includes a course description and learning outcomes. Provide a rationale for how your course fits within the program and aligns to program outcomes. Your course outcomes should be different from the ones in the example lesson plan. Include a detailed explanation of how you plan to evaluate the course’s success within the program.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

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Curriculum Design and Program Evaluation

Introduction

You’ve designed a great curriculum for your students, and you’re ready to get started. Now comes the hard part: designing a curriculum that’s not only effective but also meets all the requirements of the accreditation bodies, faculty hiring committees, and other organizations that may have standards for your program. But before we dive into how to go about designing your program curriculum (or any kind of educational program), let’s talk about why it’s so important in the first place!

Designing a curriculum to meet your students’ needs is a complex task.

Curriculum design is a complex task. It requires you to think about what your students need and how you’re going to meet those needs in a way that’s meaningful for them.

The first step in designing your curriculum is an assessment of current student performance, which helps determine whether or not the program will provide what your students need. You’ll also want to consider who they are as learners and how well they can learn on their own (without additional supports).

Once you’ve identified these factors, then it’s time for some hard work: brainstorming possible ways of meeting those needs while still keeping costs low!

Curriculum design should start with the needs assessment.

A needs assessment is a process that helps you understand your program’s current students, their strengths and weaknesses, what they need from the curriculum, how you can best serve them. In order to get the best results from your needs assessment it is important that you have an evaluator who understands both student learning styles and academic content knowledge. The evaluator should also be familiar with how students learn in different settings such as home vs school or online versus on-campus. This knowledge will provide a deeper understanding of what type of instruction works best for each group/level within an institution (e.g., middle or high school).

This process should identify what students will be able to do once they complete the program and how you’re going to measure their competence.

In order for your program to be successful, you need to clearly identify what students will be able to do once they complete the program and how you’re going to measure their competence.

• What skills and knowledge will they have?

• How are these skills or knowledge assessed?

• How is this assessment relevant and useful for future learning needs?

A well-designed curriculum will provide your students with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed after they finish your program, and it will also meet any accreditation standards you might have.

A well-designed curriculum will provide your students with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed after they finish your program, and it will also meet any accreditation standards you might have.

As a faculty member, you have an important role in helping your students develop into lifelong learners who are prepared for life after school or work. This means that while content is extremely important, it’s not enough on its own—your curriculum must be designed so that all students can learn together as a community of learners who interact with each other differently than most classrooms do today. Your job is not just about teaching content but about creating an environment where learning happens naturally by encouraging collaboration between experts within the field (such as scientists) and beginning practitioners/users (such as teachers).

But the curriculum isn’t your entire educational program.

You’ve got a curriculum. It’s the body of knowledge that you teach and the sequence of courses that students take. The curriculum design process is about planning how you’ll deliver all those lessons, but it doesn’t stop there. After your classes are taught, you need to evaluate whether they’re meeting their goals—and if not, why not?

Program evaluation is a key part of program design because it helps us know if our programs are working as we intended them to.

Don’t forget to consider how you’ll train the faculty who teach in your program, how you’ll orient new students, and how you’ll support them as they learn.

All of these considerations are important to the success of your program. They will help ensure that students have access to high-quality instruction, and they will make sure that faculty are supported in their efforts by providing them with the tools they need for effective teaching.

And don’t forget to build in evaluation of your processes so that you can continue improving them over time.

It’s important to evaluate your programs. After all, if you don’t know what works and what doesn’t, how can you make improvements?

You can use the results of your evaluations to make decisions about future changes in curriculum or program content. You might decide to change some aspects of a program because they aren’t working well enough for students’ needs. Or maybe not! Maybe there are other factors at play that need consideration before any changes are made (e.g., funding).

Curriculum design doesn’t happen in isolation.

Curriculum design does not happen in isolation. It’s one piece of a larger educational program, and it’s important to remember that your curriculum is not the same as your course catalog, syllabus or learning objectives.

The curriculum is designed to meet all of these requirements:

• It describes what you want students to learn at each stage of their education; this includes skills and knowledge needed for success in future careers as well as personal development such as self-esteem, resilience and social skills.

• It provides resources (both physical objects like textbooks and digital media) that will help students acquire those skills/knowledge through hands-on activities like lab work or field trips with experts who can explain concepts in more detail than they could themselves

Conclusion

So, now that you know how to design a curriculum that meets your students’ needs, it’s time to get started. Start by assessing where they are today, and then use that information as the basis for designing new programs.