CHES Exam-Area of Responsibility IV
Questions And Answers
Purpose Statement -identifies in detail what the health education specialist wants to learn
over the course of an evaluation or research project.
Types of Evaluation Questions 1. Process questions
2. Output/Short-term questions
3. Longer-term questions
Process questions -questions that help the evaluator understand phenomena such as
internal and external forces that affect program activities
Output/Short-term questions -questions that help evaluators clearly understand how
program activities, products or associated services relate to or affect changes in behavior,
attitudes, knowledge, skills or the intentions of the participants of the program
Longer-term questions -questions that provide vital links between intervention activities,
products and services rendered & changes in risk factors, morbidity or mortality
, CHES Exam-Area of Responsibility IV
Questions And Answers
Research questions 1. Rhetorical questions-may require value judgements or critical
statements
2. Historical questions-require describing the phenomena
3. Scientific questions-may involve generalization beyond the observed phenemona
Literature Search Steps 1. Identify need or topic
2. Subject/Title search or Author search
3. Match topic with key words in the thesaurus
4. Match topic with related key words
5. Search database for the years in which interested or for author search use last names and dates
interested in
6. Identify possible sources
7. Locate sources
8. Judge quality & quantity
9. Organize literature into useable form
Questions And Answers
Purpose Statement -identifies in detail what the health education specialist wants to learn
over the course of an evaluation or research project.
Types of Evaluation Questions 1. Process questions
2. Output/Short-term questions
3. Longer-term questions
Process questions -questions that help the evaluator understand phenomena such as
internal and external forces that affect program activities
Output/Short-term questions -questions that help evaluators clearly understand how
program activities, products or associated services relate to or affect changes in behavior,
attitudes, knowledge, skills or the intentions of the participants of the program
Longer-term questions -questions that provide vital links between intervention activities,
products and services rendered & changes in risk factors, morbidity or mortality
, CHES Exam-Area of Responsibility IV
Questions And Answers
Research questions 1. Rhetorical questions-may require value judgements or critical
statements
2. Historical questions-require describing the phenomena
3. Scientific questions-may involve generalization beyond the observed phenemona
Literature Search Steps 1. Identify need or topic
2. Subject/Title search or Author search
3. Match topic with key words in the thesaurus
4. Match topic with related key words
5. Search database for the years in which interested or for author search use last names and dates
interested in
6. Identify possible sources
7. Locate sources
8. Judge quality & quantity
9. Organize literature into useable form
