Question 1: Explain your rationale for why curriculum assessment is a necessary but insufficient factor in program assessment. Include at least one scholarly journal article to support your response in addition to your text(s).
Question 2: Contrast the advantages and disadvantages of using external and internal evaluators for a nursing education program. Include at least one scholarly journal article to support your response in addition to your text(s).
Question 3: Select one model of program assessment and discuss its advantages and disadvantages for use in an identified nursing education program. Explain why curriculum assessment is a necessary but insufficient factor in program assessment.
Question 4: Your nursing education program administrator wants to initiate peer review of teaching. Some faculty members complain that they do not have time to do peer reviews, and others insist that this would be a violation of their academic freedom. Construct a persuasive argument for the value of peer review of teaching with support from the scholarly literature and your text. How would you respond to the misgivings of those who oppose it? What assessment elements would administrators be able to evaluate more accurately than students or peers?
