COMBINATION OF NYS CIC MATERIALS EXAM
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
1. What Federal document encourages EMS education Programs to developrelationships
with Academic institutions?
Answer National EMS Agenda for the future(what we should be doing - 15 Steps
2. What does the EMS Educational Agenda for the Future
A systems Ap- proach recommend with respect to EMS accreditation?
Answer How we should do it.(How we should do it - approach to 15 steps in EMS Agenda for
the future)
3. From what federal agency can an EMS instructor access information aboutthe National
Scope of Practice Model and the EMS Standards?
Answer NHTSA (Na- tional Highway Traffic Safety Administration)
4. How can an instructor determine a students preferred learning style withoutusing a
commercial inventory tool by the way the student phrases commentsor questions?
Answer By the words the student uses to to describe the learning. For example, a visual
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learning will talk about "seeing" the informing.
5. How should an EMS educator best facilitate learning for a visual learner?
Answer -
Through the usual of visual aids such as slides, videos, etc.
6. Give an examples of differences in the roles and responsibilities of the primary
instructor vs. the secondary instructor?
Answer - Primary instructor owns theclass and is responsible for course content. Typically
more teaching experience.
- Secondary instructor's primary role is to assist primary instructor and in some cases has
responsibility for labs and psychomotor skills. Typically less teaching experience than
primary.
7. Compare and contrast intrinsic and extrinsic motivators and give an exam-ple of each.
Answer - Intrinsic - internal factors - Personal development, family
- Extrinsic - external factors - Work, promotion, money
8. What causes EMS educators to experience job-related stress that some- times leads to
them to leave the teaching profession?
Answer Time spend managingdisciplinary issues.
9. What type of documentation is necessary whenever a student must becoached
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about performance or behavior?
Answer IEP - Individual Evaluation Plan
10. Why is is critical for instructors to demonstrate fairness and consistencyin the
following disciplinary policies?
Answer
11. Compare and contrast a formative from a summative evaluation. Giveexamples
of each.
Answer - Formative - incremental knowledge check - whiteboards.
- Summative - Overall assessment that covers the entire course - final exam.
12. What are the steps an instructor should take when students are not per- forming as
expected or meeting objectives in any of the domains of learning?-
Answer Remediation
1. Conduct assessment / reason for failure
2. Determine cause of failure
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3. Develop remediation plan
4. Implement
5. Reevaluate
13. What is the first step in creating a valid exam?
Answer Creating objectives.
14. If an exam is not performing reliably, what process should be undertakento
determine why?
Answer Validation and review.
15. What steps should a primary instructor take in advance to ensure thatanother
educator could always step in and cover a class in case of a last minute facility
cancellation?
Answer Create a detailed lesson plan.
16. How should an educator sequence the development of a lesson plan?-
Answer Based on the desired level of understanding required by the domain (basic,
intermediate, advanced).
17. What are the elements that should be included in a lesson plan?
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