Click Study Flashcards above to open the flashcard hub — hundreds of CNE cards you can flip, match, type, or quiz yourself on. Every card is drawn from the eight NLN academic nurse educator competencies, so you study exactly what the Certified Nurse Educator exam tests.[1] Pair them with our free practice questions and study guide.
CNE Flashcard Study Modes
Flip mode lets you move through the fronts and backs at your own pace, Match times you pairing terms with their definitions, Type shows a definition and asks you to spell the term back, so a card like Debriefing has to come from memory, and Quiz turns the same 180 cards into multiple-choice items across every domain.
Why Flashcards Work for the CNE
Facilitate Learning is the largest section at 34 cards, drilling the teaching methods and learning theories behind scenario items. You get Simulation and Debriefing side by side, the contrast between Behaviorism, Cognitivism, and Constructivism, and applied terms such as Scaffolding, Concept map, and Active learning.
Use Assessment & Evaluation Strategies runs 33 cards on measurement language. Validity, Reliability, and Item analysis sit next to the finer distinctions the exam likes to separate, including Content validity, Construct validity, and Criterion validity, while performance assessment shows up through OSCE and Rubric.
Curriculum Design & Program Outcomes holds 22 cards on design frameworks and accrediting bodies, including CCNE, ACEN, NLN CNEA, the ADDIE model, and what makes a SMART objective. Facilitate Learner Development & Socialization adds 19 cards on the adult learner, pairing Pedagogy against Andragogy, breaking it down through Andragogy: readiness and Andragogy: motivation, and covering Mentoring vs advising and Benner: novice learner.
Exam Logistics & Framework gives you 16 cards on the test itself, such as CNEn, CNE vs CNEcl, CNE time limit, and CNE basic eligibility. Function as a Change Agent & Leader contributes 15 cards anchored in Lewin’s change model, with Lewin: unfreeze, Lewin: refreeze, Force-field analysis, and Servant leadership. Organizational Environment & Academic Community adds 15 more on FERPA, Shared governance, Incivility, and Tenure track.
Continuous Quality Improvement covers 13 cards on the PDSA cycle, Benchmark, Peer review of teaching, and the card When reflection becomes CQI. Engage in Scholarship closes the deck with 13 cards on IRB, SoTL, Boyer’s four scholarships, and Evidence-based teaching.
That matters on the CNE, which hinges on many precise definitions and distinctions: the levels of Bloom’s taxonomy, formative vs summative, validity vs reliability, and Lewin’s change stages must be instantly available. Used alongside our practice questions and study guide, flashcards turn review time into measurable progress.
CNE Flashcards by Topic
The cards are organized by the eight NLN competencies. Weight your study toward the heaviest one — Facilitate Learning is by far the largest at about 36% of the exam:[1]
| NLN competency | Scored items | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Facilitate Learning | 47 | ~36% |
| Facilitate Learner Development & Socialization | 18 | ~14% |
| Use Assessment & Evaluation Strategies | 18 | ~14% |
| Curriculum Design & Evaluation of Program Outcomes | 13 | ~10% |
| Function as a Change Agent & Leader | 9 | ~7% |
| Pursue Continuous Quality Improvement | 9 | ~7% |
| Organizational Environment & Academic Community | 9 | ~7% |
| Engage in Scholarship | 7 | ~5% |
How to Get the Most Out of These Flashcards
- Start with Facilitate Learning. At 34 cards it is the biggest block in the deck, and the learning theories there explain the reasoning behind assessment, curriculum, and learner development items.
- Type-drill the confusable pairs. Definitions for Construct validity and Criterion validity blur together fast, so typing the exact term forces the distinction instead of letting recognition carry you.
- Use Match for the short-label cards. Stage and framework terms like Lewin: unfreeze and Lewin: refreeze, plus accreditation labels such as ACEN, pair quickly and reward clean recall under time.
- Move to the practice test once Quiz holds steady. When multiple choice stops surprising you across Facilitate Learning and Use Assessment & Evaluation Strategies, full-length questions become the better use of your attention.
- Rotate two domains per sitting. With 180 cards, pairing a large domain with a small one, such as Curriculum Design & Program Outcomes plus Engage in Scholarship, keeps every section in rotation.
CNE Flashcards FAQ
Hundreds of free CNE flashcards, organized across the eight NLN academic nurse educator competencies tested on the Certified Nurse Educator exam — from Facilitate Learning through scholarship and the organizational environment. They're free to use with no account required.
Yes. Flashcards use active recall — retrieving an answer from memory — which research shows is one of the most effective ways to make information stick, especially in short sessions spread over several days. That matters for the CNE's many precise definitions, such as the levels of Bloom's taxonomy, validity vs reliability, and Lewin's change stages.
Every NLN competency: Facilitate Learning (the largest at about 36%), Facilitate Learner Development & Socialization, Use Assessment & Evaluation Strategies, Curriculum Design & Program Outcomes, Function as a Change Agent & Leader, Continuous Quality Improvement, Engage in Scholarship, and Function within the Organizational Environment, plus exam logistics.
Yes. The CNE is an academic / teaching certification, so every card is written to the nurse-educator role — learning theories, teaching strategies, test construction, curriculum design, and leadership — rather than bedside clinical care. The clinical detail, when it appears, is just context for an education principle.
Mix the modes: flip to learn, type to test recall, match for speed, and quiz to check yourself. Spend the most time on Facilitate Learning (about 36% of the exam), then assessment and evaluation and curriculum design, and make sure you know the key definitions cold.
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Exam Logistics & Framework (16)
- Certifying body for the CNE
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The National League for Nursing (NLN).
- Total CNE exam items
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150 multiple-choice items.
- CNE scored vs pretest items
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130 scored + 20 unscored pretest items per form.
- CNE time limit
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3 hours.
- CNE delivery format
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Computer-based at an assessment center.
- CNE passing standard
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A criterion-referenced cut score set by a modified Angoff study; no fixed %.
- CNE exam fee
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$425 NLN members / $525 non-members (same to retest; verify on nln.org).
- CNE certification period
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5 years; renew by continuing education or re-examination.
- What the CNE certifies
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Excellence in the academic nurse educator role (classroom + lab teaching).
- CNE vs CNEcl
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CNE = academic educator (classroom/lab); CNEcl = academic CLINICAL educator (clinical setting).
- CNEn
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Certified Nurse Educator Novice — the NLN credential for new/aspiring academic educators.
- Largest CNE content area
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Facilitate Learning — about 36% (47 of 130 scored items).
- Smallest CNE content area
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Engage in Scholarship — about 5% (7 scored items).
- Number of NLN nurse-educator competencies
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Eight — they are the CNE's eight content areas.
- CNE basic eligibility
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Active RN license + a graduate degree in nursing with an education focus (or 9+ graduate nursing-education credits) + qualifying educator experience.
- How CNE items are framed
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As teaching scenarios — recognize the underlying education principle, not a clinical action.
Facilitate Learning (34)
- Bloom's taxonomy levels
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Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, Create (low to high order).
- The three domains of learning
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Cognitive (knowing), psychomotor (doing), affective (feeling/values).
- Cognitive domain
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Knowledge and intellectual skills (the 'head'); organized by Bloom's taxonomy.
- Psychomotor domain
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Physical skills and procedures (the 'hands'); imitation to mastery.
- Affective domain
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Attitudes, values, and professional identity (the 'heart'); Krathwohl's hierarchy.
- Krathwohl's affective hierarchy
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Receiving, Responding, Valuing, Organizing, Characterizing.
- Bloom's revised vs original
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1956 used nouns (Knowledge...Evaluation at top); 2001 revision uses verbs with Create at top.
- Bloom's lowest level
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Remember — recall of facts (list, define, identify).
- Bloom's highest level
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Create — produce something new (design, construct, develop).
- Verb for 'Apply' (Bloom's)
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use, implement, demonstrate, solve.
- Verb for 'Analyze' (Bloom's)
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differentiate, compare, organize, prioritize.
- Verb for 'Evaluate' (Bloom's)
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appraise, critique, judge, justify.
- Behaviorism
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Learning as observable behavior shaped by stimulus, response, and reinforcement (Skinner, Pavlov).
- Cognitivism
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Learning as internal mental processing — attention, memory, and organizing into schemas.
- Constructivism
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Learners actively build understanding on prior knowledge (Piaget, Vygotsky, Bruner).
- Social learning theory (Bandura)
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Learning by observing and modeling others — basis of role-modeling and demonstration.
- Vygotsky's zone of proximal development
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The gap between what a learner can do alone and with guidance; teach within it via scaffolding.
- Scaffolding
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Temporary support given to learners that is gradually removed as competence grows.
- Active learning
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Engaging students in doing and reflecting (cases, simulation, discussion) rather than passive listening.
- 'Guide on the side' vs 'sage on the stage'
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The educator facilitates reasoning (guide) rather than just transmitting facts (sage).
- Flipped classroom
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Students learn content before class so class time is used for active application.
- Problem-based learning (PBL)
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Self-directed inquiry driven by real, ill-structured problems; builds higher-order thinking.
- Concept map
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A visual that connects and organizes concepts to show relationships; aids understanding/analysis.
- Simulation
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Safe, realistic practice of skills and clinical judgment; targets all three learning domains.
- Debriefing
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Guided reflection after simulation/clinical that turns experience into learning (affective + cognitive).
- Best teaching strategy for clinical reasoning
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Unfolding case studies and simulation (Apply/Analyze), not lecture.
- Lecture — best use
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Efficient delivery of new content to large groups (Remember/Understand level).
- Evidence on learning 'styles'
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Matching instruction to visual/auditory/kinesthetic style has little research support.
- Better than matching learning styles
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Use multiple, varied modalities and match the method to the content.
- Accommodating diverse learners
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Adapt for differing backgrounds, languages, abilities, and generations; provide reasonable accommodations.
- Purpose of educational technology
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It should serve a clear objective (LMS, simulation, audience response) — not be added for novelty.
- Affective-domain teaching strategies
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Reflection, role-modeling, discussion of values — not more skills drill.
- Why use return demonstration
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It assesses psychomotor learning by having the student perform the skill back.
- Gagné's nine events of instruction
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A sequence (gain attention → inform objective → ... → enhance retention/transfer) for designing instruction.
Facilitate Learner Development & Socialization (19)
- Andragogy
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Knowles's theory of how adults learn.
- Pedagogy
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The teaching of children; contrasted with andragogy.
- Andragogy: self-concept
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Adults are self-directed, not dependent on the teacher.
- Andragogy: experience
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Adults bring a rich reservoir of experience to use as a learning resource.
- Andragogy: readiness
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Adults are ready to learn what is relevant to their life and work roles.
- Andragogy: orientation
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Adults are problem-centered (immediate use), not subject-centered.
- Andragogy: motivation
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Adults are mostly internally motivated.
- Andragogy: need to know
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Adults need to know WHY they are learning something.
- Teaching implication of andragogy
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Build on experience, start with real problems, explain relevance, give learners choice.
- Socialization (nursing education)
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Internalizing the values, norms, and professional identity of nursing.
- How educators support socialization
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Role-modeling, mentoring, constructive feedback, reflection, and a safe environment.
- Benner's novice-to-expert stages
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Novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, expert.
- Benner: novice learner
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A beginner who relies on rules; needs structure and clear expectations.
- Supporting the at-risk student
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Identify early, meet privately/non-judgmentally, make a concrete plan, refer to resources, document.
- Professional boundaries with learners
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Maintain appropriate teacher-student boundaries and treat all learners equitably.
- Role of reflection in development
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Helps learners build self-awareness, professional identity, and clinical judgment.
- Generational diversity in learners
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Recognize differing expectations/preferences across generations; adapt without stereotyping.
- Mentoring vs advising
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Mentoring = a developmental relationship; advising = guidance on academic decisions/progress.
- Adult learner's need for relevance
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Tie new content to an immediate, role-relevant problem or need.
Use Assessment & Evaluation Strategies (33)
- Formative assessment
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Low-stakes assessment DURING instruction to give feedback and adjust teaching.
- Summative assessment
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High-stakes assessment at the END to judge achievement (usually graded).
- Formative vs summative metaphor
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Formative = the cook tastes the soup; summative = the guest tastes the soup.
- Formative assessment examples
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One-minute paper, quiz, exit ticket, audience-response questions.
- Summative assessment examples
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Final exam, OSCE, course grade, the NCLEX.
- Reliability
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The consistency of a measurement across administrations, items, or raters.
- Validity
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The degree to which a test measures what it is intended to measure.
- Reliability vs validity rule
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A test must be reliable to be valid, but a reliable test can still be invalid.
- Which matters more, validity or reliability?
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Validity — measuring the right thing is more important than mere consistency.
- Content validity
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How well a test's items match the blueprint and objectives; key for classroom exams.
- Construct validity
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Whether a test measures the abstract trait/construct it claims to.
- Criterion validity
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How well test scores correlate with an external criterion (concurrent or predictive).
- Item analysis
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Statistical review of how each test item performed.
- Difficulty index (p-value)
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Proportion of students who answered an item correctly; higher = easier.
- Discrimination index
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How well an item separates high-scoring from low-scoring students.
- Negative discrimination index
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Red flag — stronger students did worse; usually a mis-keyed or flawed item; review it.
- Distractor analysis
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Checking whether each wrong option attracted any students.
- Non-functioning distractor
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An option chosen by no one; revise it so the item measures better.
- KR-20 / Cronbach's alpha
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Measures of internal-consistency reliability of a test.
- Table of specifications
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A test blueprint mapping items to content areas and cognitive levels.
- NCLEX-style item level
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Written at application/analysis — clinical reasoning/prioritization, not recall.
- Good multiple-choice stem
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Complete, clear, positively worded; one objective; no negatives if avoidable.
- Item-writing: length cue
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Don't make the correct answer the longest option — it gives the answer away.
- Item-writing: 'all of the above'
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Avoid — partial knowledge lets students answer; it weakens measurement.
- Item-writing: distractors
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Make them plausible, homogeneous, and similar in length and grammar.
- Norm-referenced grading
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Compares a student to other students (grading on a curve).
- Criterion-referenced grading
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Compares a student to a fixed standard/criterion, not to peers.
- Rubric
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A scoring guide listing criteria and performance levels for consistent, transparent grading.
- Analytic vs holistic rubric
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Analytic scores each criterion separately; holistic gives one overall judgment.
- OSCE
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Objective Structured Clinical Examination — station-based assessment of clinical/communication skills.
- Clinical evaluation tools
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Rubrics, direct observation, simulation debriefs, portfolios, concept maps, written work.
- Formative vs summative clinical feedback
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Formative = ongoing coaching; summative = the clinical grade.
- Test-blueprint purpose
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Ensures the exam is content-valid and matches what was taught at the right depth.
Curriculum Design & Program Outcomes (22)
- Well-written learning objective
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Learner-centered, specific, and measurable, with an action verb at a Bloom's level.
- ABCD objective format
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Audience, Behavior (measurable verb), Condition, Degree of performance.
- SMART objective
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Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound.
- Unmeasurable objective verbs to avoid
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'know,' 'understand,' 'appreciate' — they can't be observed or assessed.
- Constructive alignment
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Objectives, teaching activities, and assessments all match in level/content.
- Curriculum
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The planned sequence of learning experiences designed to achieve program outcomes.
- Conceptual framework
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The organizing structure of values, concepts, and theories a curriculum is built on.
- ADDIE model
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Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, Evaluate — a looping instructional-design cycle.
- ADDIE: Analyze
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Assess learner, societal, and professional needs; identify the gap.
- ADDIE: Evaluate
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Measure outcomes and feed results back into the next cycle.
- Curriculum alignment standards
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Align to AACN Essentials, state board rules, and the program mission.
- Program outcome examples
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NCLEX pass rate, graduation/retention rates, employer and graduate surveys, certification rates.
- Program evaluation
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Systematic data collection on whether a program meets its mission and outcomes.
- 'Closing the loop'
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Using evaluation findings to make improvements, not just for compliance.
- Accreditation
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External peer review of a program against published standards.
- CCNE
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Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education — accredits baccalaureate/graduate nursing programs.
- ACEN
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Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing — accredits nursing programs at all levels.
- NLN CNEA
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The NLN Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation — an NLN nursing accreditor.
- Why accreditation matters
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Assures quality; required for many roles and for federal financial aid eligibility.
- Horizontal vs vertical curriculum organization
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Horizontal = within a level; vertical = progression across levels (simple to complex).
- Course objective vs program outcome
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Course objective = one course; program outcome = the graduate of the whole program.
- AACN Essentials
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AACN's competency-based framework for nursing education curricula.
Function as a Change Agent & Leader (15)
- Lewin's change model
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Unfreeze, Change (move), Refreeze.
- Lewin: unfreeze
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Create readiness/motivation by reducing the forces holding the status quo.
- Lewin: change/move
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Implement the new behavior with support, training, and a clear vision.
- Lewin: refreeze
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Stabilize and reinforce the new way so it becomes the norm and doesn't regress.
- Force-field analysis
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Lewin's weighing of driving forces vs restraining forces for a change.
- Best way to advance change (force-field)
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Reduce the restraining forces (more effective than just adding pressure).
- Kotter's 8-step change model
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An 8-step process (create urgency ... anchor change) for leading organizational change.
- Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations
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Adopter categories: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, laggards.
- Transformational leadership
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Inspires/motivates toward a shared vision; linked to positive outcomes.
- Transactional leadership
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Leads via rewards and punishments (exchange), not shared vision.
- Change champion
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A respected person who advocates for and helps drive a change.
- Why refreezing matters
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Without it, people revert to the old way once the initial push ends.
- Lewin model best fit
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Planned, deliberate change (e.g., a new grading rubric or curriculum).
- Educator as change agent
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Leads change in the classroom, program, and institution and models it for others.
- Servant leadership
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Leadership focused on serving and developing others' growth and needs.
Continuous Quality Improvement (13)
- Continuous quality improvement (CQI)
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An ongoing, data-driven cycle of evaluating and improving teaching and outcomes.
- PDSA cycle
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Plan-Do-Study-Act — a structured loop for testing and adopting improvements.
- Reflective practice
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Deliberate examination of one's own teaching to learn from it and improve.
- Reflection-in-action (Schon)
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Thinking on your feet and adjusting WHILE teaching.
- Reflection-on-action (Schon)
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Reviewing and analyzing teaching AFTER it has happened.
- When reflection becomes CQI
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Only when it leads to a concrete change — not when it stays a private thought.
- Peer review of teaching
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A structured input where colleagues observe and give feedback on teaching.
- Student course evaluations
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Learner feedback used as one input to improving a course.
- Three parts of the faculty role
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Teaching, scholarship, and service.
- Self-evaluation
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The educator's own appraisal of their teaching as part of CQI.
- Professional development (educator)
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Ongoing learning to stay current as both a nurse and a teacher.
- Classic CQI exam pattern
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An educator who self-examines and redesigns their teaching when students misunderstand a concept.
- Benchmark
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A reference standard against which outcomes are compared in quality improvement.
Engage in Scholarship (13)
- Boyer's four scholarships
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Discovery, Integration, Application, Teaching.
- Scholarship of Discovery
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Original research that builds new knowledge — the traditional scholarship.
- Scholarship of Integration
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Connecting and synthesizing knowledge across disciplines.
- Scholarship of Application
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Using knowledge to address real problems in practice/community (engagement).
- Scholarship of Teaching
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The systematic study and improvement of teaching and learning (SoTL).
- SoTL
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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning — a researchable question, evidence, and PUBLIC dissemination.
- SoTL vs course evaluation
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SoTL is made public/peer-reviewed; routine course evaluation alone is NOT scholarship.
- Why Boyer's model matters
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It legitimized teaching, integration, and application as scholarship beyond research alone.
- Evidence-based teaching
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Grounding teaching decisions in the best available education/nursing research.
- Dissemination of scholarship
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Sharing work via publishing, presenting at conferences, and mentoring others.
- Research integrity
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Honest conduct, proper attribution, and protection of human subjects in scholarship.
- IRB
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Institutional Review Board — reviews research to protect human subjects.
- Good teaching vs scholarly teaching vs SoTL
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Good teaching is effective; scholarly teaching uses evidence; SoTL studies and shares it publicly.
Organizational Environment & Academic Community (15)
- Shared governance
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The structure (committees, bylaws) through which faculty share decision-making.
- Who 'owns' curriculum decisions
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Traditionally the faculty, exercised through governance bodies.
- FERPA
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Federal law protecting the privacy of student education records.
- ADA (in education)
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Requires reasonable accommodations for students with documented disabilities.
- Due process (academic)
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Fair, consistent procedures in academic and disciplinary decisions.
- Academic integrity
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Honesty and ethical conduct in teaching, learning, and scholarship.
- Promoting academic integrity
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Clear expectations, teaching citation, cheat-resistant assessments, consistent honor-code enforcement.
- Incivility
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Rude, disruptive, or disrespectful behavior between students or faculty.
- Addressing incivility
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Model civility, set norms early, intervene promptly, and build a culture of respect.
- Tenure track
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A faculty appointment leading to tenure (long-term job security after review).
- Faculty service
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Committee work, mentoring colleagues, and contributing to the program and profession.
- Mission alignment
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Acting in line with the institution's and program's mission and culture.
- Mentoring new faculty
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Supporting, including, and developing new colleagues — counters exclusion/incivility.
- Plagiarism
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Using others' work without proper attribution; a breach of academic integrity.
- Just culture (academic/practice)
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Balances accountability with learning from errors rather than blame.
References
- 1.National League for Nursing. “Certified Nurse Educator (CNE®) Examination Test Blueprint.” NLN.org. ↑
- 2.National League for Nursing. “The Scope of Practice for Academic Nurse Educators & Core Competencies.” NLN.org. ↑
- 3.National Institutes of Health / National Library of Medicine. “StatPearls & NLM Bookshelf — Learning Theories, Andragogy, Validity & Reliability.” NIH/NLM. ↑
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