NAEMSE EMS Certification Exam:
Foundations, Curriculum, and Teaching
Strategies Questions with 100% Correct
Answers
Andragogy
The art and science of teaching adults; learner-centered, self-directed, experience-based
(Knowles). Contrasts with pedagogy.
Pedagogy
The art and science of teaching children; teacher-directed, content-centered approach.
Self-directed learning
The learner takes initiative and responsibility for their own learning process and outcomes.
Transformative learning
Learning that causes a fundamental shift in the learner's frame of reference (Mezirow).
Experiential learning
Learning through reflection on experience (Kolb's cycle: experience → reflect →
conceptualize → apply).
EMS Education
The formal process of preparing individuals to deliver pre-hospital emergency medical care.
NAEMSE
National Association of EMS Educators; professional organization setting standards for EMS
instruction.
,NREMT
National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians; administers national certification
exams.
EMS Agenda for the Future
1996 NHTSA document establishing a vision for EMS as an integrated community health
resource.
Education Agenda
Companion document to EMS Agenda for the Future; outlined educational system reform
needs.
National EMS Education Standards
NHTSA-developed competency-based framework replacing the National Standard Curricula
(NSC).
National Standard Curriculum (NSC)
Older prescriptive, time-based EMT and paramedic curricula; replaced by Education
Standards.
Competency-based education
Approach focused on measurable skills and knowledge outcomes rather than time in class.
Professionalism
Adherence to ethical standards, commitment to excellence, accountability, and service above
self.
Knowles' Principles of Adult Learning (Andragogy)
, Six Assumptions of Adult Learners: Self-concept, Experience, Readiness to learn,
Orientation to learning, Motivation, Need to know.
Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle
Concrete Experience (CE) — doing, Reflective Observation (RO) — reviewing, Abstract
Conceptualization (AC) — concluding, Active Experimentation (AE) — planning.
Curriculum
The totality of a planned educational experience; what will be taught, how, and in what
sequence.
Instructional design
Systematic process of designing, developing, and delivering instruction (ADDIE model).
ADDIE Model
Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation — the foundational ID
framework.
Needs assessment
Process of identifying gaps between current and desired performance/knowledge.
Learning objectives
Specific, measurable statements of what learners will be able to do after instruction.
Terminal objective
The broad, overarching learning outcome for a course or unit.
Enabling objective
Smaller, supporting objectives that build toward the terminal objective.
Foundations, Curriculum, and Teaching
Strategies Questions with 100% Correct
Answers
Andragogy
The art and science of teaching adults; learner-centered, self-directed, experience-based
(Knowles). Contrasts with pedagogy.
Pedagogy
The art and science of teaching children; teacher-directed, content-centered approach.
Self-directed learning
The learner takes initiative and responsibility for their own learning process and outcomes.
Transformative learning
Learning that causes a fundamental shift in the learner's frame of reference (Mezirow).
Experiential learning
Learning through reflection on experience (Kolb's cycle: experience → reflect →
conceptualize → apply).
EMS Education
The formal process of preparing individuals to deliver pre-hospital emergency medical care.
NAEMSE
National Association of EMS Educators; professional organization setting standards for EMS
instruction.
,NREMT
National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians; administers national certification
exams.
EMS Agenda for the Future
1996 NHTSA document establishing a vision for EMS as an integrated community health
resource.
Education Agenda
Companion document to EMS Agenda for the Future; outlined educational system reform
needs.
National EMS Education Standards
NHTSA-developed competency-based framework replacing the National Standard Curricula
(NSC).
National Standard Curriculum (NSC)
Older prescriptive, time-based EMT and paramedic curricula; replaced by Education
Standards.
Competency-based education
Approach focused on measurable skills and knowledge outcomes rather than time in class.
Professionalism
Adherence to ethical standards, commitment to excellence, accountability, and service above
self.
Knowles' Principles of Adult Learning (Andragogy)
, Six Assumptions of Adult Learners: Self-concept, Experience, Readiness to learn,
Orientation to learning, Motivation, Need to know.
Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle
Concrete Experience (CE) — doing, Reflective Observation (RO) — reviewing, Abstract
Conceptualization (AC) — concluding, Active Experimentation (AE) — planning.
Curriculum
The totality of a planned educational experience; what will be taught, how, and in what
sequence.
Instructional design
Systematic process of designing, developing, and delivering instruction (ADDIE model).
ADDIE Model
Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation — the foundational ID
framework.
Needs assessment
Process of identifying gaps between current and desired performance/knowledge.
Learning objectives
Specific, measurable statements of what learners will be able to do after instruction.
Terminal objective
The broad, overarching learning outcome for a course or unit.
Enabling objective
Smaller, supporting objectives that build toward the terminal objective.
