Table 1.

Educational Strategies to Improve Vision Screening in Preschool Children

Educational Strategy	Educational Rationale	Educational Theory35–37
Content selection	Establish relevance to work setting	Andragogy (Knowles)
Use of cases	Bridge content to work performance	Practice-based learning (Moore)
Interactivity	Rehearse new behaviors	System Approach Model (Dick/Carey)
Clinical guidelines38	Provide instruction on how to complete a behavior from a credible source	Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura)
Vicarious Learning	Social Modeling (Videotapes and animations*)	Social Cognitive Theory (McAlister)37
Multiple modalities	Varied and multiple representations of content	Cognitive Flexibility Theory (Spiro)
Audit and feedback	Provide practice data to facilitate reflection on practice	Theory of Reflective Practice (Schon)

^*Videotapes of preschoolers completing visual acuity testing and of strabismic children undergoing cover testing, the latter clarified by labeled animations.