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Implementing and Evaluating Learning

Objectives

• Explain the advantages and disadvantages of various educational methods and techniques.
• Discuss the educational methods and techniques appropriate in the cognitive, affective, and

psychomotor domains.
• Compile a task analysis.
• List the ways in which instruction can be organized and sequenced.
• Identify the purposes of an educational evaluation.
• Explain several types of evaluation.
• Prepare a lesson plan.
• Compare and contrast formative and summative evaluations, norm-referenced and criterion-referenced

evaluations, and reliability and validity.
• Plan, implement, and evaluate an educational presentation for a specific target audience.

CASE CHALLENGE 1

Susan Grey, RD, has decided that there is a need for prenatal nutrition classes in the outpatient
clinic. Many of the patients are teenagers with limited incomes who are on suboptimum diets. The clinic
nurse is also interested in cooperating to reduce the time she spends in individual counseling with patients.
I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.

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