CHES Prep Exam 2025 Study Guide (Graded A+)
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Evaluation - -assess a process or program to provide evidence and feedback for the program
Formative Evaluation - -evaluation that looks at an ongoing process of evaluation from planning
through implementation
Process Evaluation - -is any combination of measures that occur as a program is implemented to
assure or improve the quality of performance or delivery
Summative Evaluation - -evaluation that is often associated with measures or judgement that enable
the investigator to draw conclusions. Also associated with impact and outcome evaluation.
Impact Evaluation - -evaluation that focuses on immediate and observable effects of a program
leading to the desired outcomes.
Outcome Evaluation - -evaluation that is focused on the ultimate goal, product or policy. It is often
measured in terms of morbidity and mortality
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
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
Systemic Reviews - -a published qualitative review of a comprehensive synthesis of publications on
particular topics
Meta-analyses - -a systematic method of evaluating statistical data based on results of several
independent studies of the same problem
Pooled-analyses - -a method for collecting all the individual data from a group of studies, combining
them into one larger set of data, and then analyzing as if it came from one big study
General Data Collection Information - Many instruments have been validated and tested for
reliability and used repeatedly by national, state and local health surveillance programs (YRBSS,
BRFSS, YTS, NHANES)
Federal Register - -an ongoing document by the federal government that contains most routine
publications. May also contain parallel projects & programs that are not yet implemented.
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Evaluation - -assess a process or program to provide evidence and feedback for the program
Formative Evaluation - -evaluation that looks at an ongoing process of evaluation from planning
through implementation
Process Evaluation - -is any combination of measures that occur as a program is implemented to
assure or improve the quality of performance or delivery
Summative Evaluation - -evaluation that is often associated with measures or judgement that enable
the investigator to draw conclusions. Also associated with impact and outcome evaluation.
Impact Evaluation - -evaluation that focuses on immediate and observable effects of a program
leading to the desired outcomes.
Outcome Evaluation - -evaluation that is focused on the ultimate goal, product or policy. It is often
measured in terms of morbidity and mortality
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
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
Systemic Reviews - -a published qualitative review of a comprehensive synthesis of publications on
particular topics
Meta-analyses - -a systematic method of evaluating statistical data based on results of several
independent studies of the same problem
Pooled-analyses - -a method for collecting all the individual data from a group of studies, combining
them into one larger set of data, and then analyzing as if it came from one big study
General Data Collection Information - Many instruments have been validated and tested for
reliability and used repeatedly by national, state and local health surveillance programs (YRBSS,
BRFSS, YTS, NHANES)
Federal Register - -an ongoing document by the federal government that contains most routine
publications. May also contain parallel projects & programs that are not yet implemented.
