INQAAHE Forum 2024
Transforming Society: Social Reponsibility trough Quality Assurance of Tertiary Education
June 11, 2024
Design-thinking workshop
Sub-theme 3: Designing curricula for societal impact
Quality Nursing Education: Linking the Curriculum to Program Assessment
This workshop will examine the essential elements of a nursing curriculum that reflect quality education. The participant will have an opportunity to share their curriculum challenges with other colleagues, critique their student learning and program outcomes and link these to quality indicators for international nursing programs. Participants will also critique or begin developing a systematic plan for evaluation to ensure data regarding the quality of the program are available to faculty to inform program decision-making to improve the curriculum and learning achievement.
Outline description:
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Discuss the key curriculum and assessment elements in a quality nursing curriculum.
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Discuss the importance and components of having a systematic plan for evaluation to assess the overall program.
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Discuss the importance of identifying student learning outcomes for the curriculum and ensuring the student learning outcomes are measurable.
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Critique the current student learning outcomes for your nursing program.
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Discuss how evaluation methods should align with the student learning outcomes.
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Discuss the use of direct and indirect methods for student learning and program assessment.
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Develop a systematic plan for evaluation.
Facilitated by:
Nell Ard, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF
Dr. Nell Ard is the Chief Accreditation Officer of the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN). Dr. Ard has been in nursing education for 36 years working in a number of nursing programs at various levels of nursing. Her passion as always been related to curriculum and providing quality nursing education. She has been engaged in the nursing accreditation process for 20 years beginning as a peer evaluator, team chair, Evaluation Review Panel member, and ACEN Staff member. She has extensive presentations and publications related to nursing education and nursing accreditation. She participated in the development of the last three sets of Standards and Criteria utilized by the ACEN.
Keri Nunn-Ellison, EdD, MSN/Ed, RN, CNE
Dr. Keri Nunn-Ellison is the Senior Director of the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN). Dr. Nunn-Ellison is dedicated to quality teaching and learning and has focused her career on course-, program-, and college-level outcomes assessment; her curriculum vitae includes professional faculty development presentations and publications on these topics. She participated on the Standards review team contributing to the 2017 Standards and Criteria and co-chaired the team contributing to 2023 Standards 4 Curriculum and Standard 5 Outcomes. Prior to joining the ACEN in 2016, she championed quality assessment practices in her roles as Divisional Assessment Coordinator for Health Sciences at Sinclair Community College and chair of the college-wide Assessment Committee. She served two terms on the Education Advisory Board for the Ohio Board of Nursing and was an active volunteer for the ACEN as a peer evaluator with experience as a team chair and participation on the Evaluation Review Panel.
If you have any question about the event, please do not hesitate to contact INQAAHE and/or the Forum host, ARACIS.
