American School Health Association Conference

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American School Health Association Conference
Involving Higher Education in the Future of the
Health Education Assessment Project

• Nancy Hudson, CCSSO
• Tami Benham Deal, University of Wyoming

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Objectives

• How can new innovations in the HEAP support
  higher educational faculty
• in supporting pre-service education?
• aligning pre-service and in-service programs in
  health education?
• in implementing a research agenda?
• How can the HEAP engage higher education faculty
  in more relevant and impactful ways?
• How can the HEAP help to improve collaboration
  between Institutions of Higher Education (IHE)
  and state education agencies (SEA)?

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Disclaimer

• This session is about the HEAP. The HEAP
  develops products that when sold brings money
  back to the project to invest in more product and
  service development.

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The HEAP Team
Arkansas, California, District of Columbia,
DoDEA, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky,
Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, North
Carolina, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia School
District, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas,
Vermont, Wisconsin, Wyoming
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HEAP Mission (2001)
To develop effective health education assessment
resources through a collaborative process, and to
increase members capacity to align curriculum,
instruction, and assessment to improve student
health literacy through improved health education
instruction.
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Supporting Pre-service Education
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Supporting Pre-service Education
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Health Literacy Posters
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Newest Resources from HEAP
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Aligning Pre-service and In-service
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Aligning Pre-service and In-service
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Aligning Pre-service and In-service through
Distance Learning
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Aligning Pre-service and In-service
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Implementing a research agenda
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Immediate Results
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Research Questions

• Student
• Describing student health knowledge and skills
• Developing instruments to measure student health
  literacy
• Correlating student health knowledge/skills and
  reported health risk behavior (or health-related
  school disciplinary actions)
• Teacher
• Examining differences among health teachers (HE
  certified, PE with certification in HE, PE with
  no HE certification) on health knowledge and
  skills.
• Classroom
• Examining intervention effects on student
  learning
• Comparing effectiveness of skills-based
  instruction and content-based instruction on
  student learning
• Program/School
• Evaluating program effectiveness

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You tell us

• How can the HEAP engage and support higher
  education faculty in more relevant and impactful
  ways?
• How can the HEAP help to improve collaboration
  between Institutions of Higher Education (IHE)
  and state education agencies (SEA)?