Protectthehornet
You are absolutely right with respect to challenge and response do lists....for 2 crew large aircraft operations, although they should still flow logically. But Spock's question was with respect to flight training in small aircraft. This is by definition a single pilot operation with inexperienced pilots. The checks have to be doable in considering there will be times during every flight when the pilot will not be able to safely devote the heads down time to read a printed checklist.
A big thumbs up to the idea of setting the trim for takeoff as part of the shut down check. I learned that the hard way .....