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Bloom’s Taxonomy: a classification system of hierarchical educational goals developed by Heinrich Bloom

Class: a short-term (60-120 minute) instructional module intended to convey a specific and highly-focused body of information, covering one or more KSAs and related to specific Learning Objectives.  In programs offering academic credit, classes are typically compiled into courses.

Competency: a skill that a practitioner or student can demonstrate; a combination of underlying KSAs and the ability to apply those KSA  in a practical situation.

Content Area: used in this document to identify the major areas of subject matter knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) included in a health management education program.  In a competency model, content areas may relate to one or more domains that collectively produce competencies.  

Course: a collection of instructional modules that collectively accomplish a set of learning objectives.

Curriculum: A compilation of educational courses, regardless of format, that collectively accomplish a comprehensive set of learning objectives that prepare the learner to achieve the desired competencies.

Domain: Major theme for knowledge, skills, abilities, typically broken into several competencies.

Health Administration: used throughout to mean Health Administration or Health Management, healthcare administration, or healthcare management.

Healthcare: used throughout as one word, not two.

Healthcare Management: same as Health Administration

KSAs: Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities.  Sometimes used as Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes.  These can be translated into Learning Objectives for developing specific training modules or classes. KSAs are the foundational basis for achieving competencies.  

Learning Objective: a specific measurable outcome of education, typically at a relatively detailed level of knowledge or practice, intended to convey an element of one or more KSAs.  

Method of Delivery: Format for offering intruction to a student, such as in-person classroom, on-line synchronous learning, on-line asynchronous.

Relationship of KSAs, Learning Objectives, Content, Competencies, Courses, Curriculum: See schematic below

Topic: used in this document as a sub-set of knowledge of a Content Area
Created By: Kristi Donovan, MS, CAE 12-20-2012
Last Updated By: Kristi Donovan, MS, CAE 12-21-2012
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