NCHEC CHES Exam – Area of Responsibility I: Assess Needs, Assets, and Capacity for Health
Education – Practice Questions and Answers
health equity attainment of the highest level of health for all people
Competency 1.5: Examine factors that influence the process by which people learn HES
must acknowledge learning impacts and select methods for delivering
Competency 1.5.1 - identify and analyze factors that foster or hinder the learning process
things that foster learning would be attitudes, different learning styles, and readiness to
adopts new strategies
use Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Events of Instruction ( Gagne's Theory of Instruction) 1. Gaining Attention
2. Informing the learner of objective
3. stimulating recall of prerequisite learning (review)
4. Presenting the stimulus material
5. eliciting desired behavior
6. providing feedback
7. assessing behavior
categories of learning
a) verbal information
b) cognitive strategies
c) intellectual skills
d) motor skills
e) attitudes
,Bloom's Taxonomy Knowledge - Recall of information of major ides (mastery of the subject
matter)
Comprehension - Understand information
Application - use information (solve problems using knowledge and skills)
Analysis - Identification of components & recognizing patterns
Synthesis - Relate knowledge from several areas (Predict and draw conclusions)
Evaluation - Compare and discriminate between idea (decide based on arguments)
Competency 1.5.2 - identify and analyze factors that hinder knowledge acquisition HES need
to use the info gathered to make program decisions and developing appropriate learning
experience for programs. Knowing barriers to learning will help health HES develop methods for
ind. and communities.
Competency 1.5.3 - identify and analyze factors that influence attitudes and beliefs HES
must understand the dynamics of priority populations in order to build relationships, respect,
and trust as well as to identify ways to collaborate effectively on interventions '
Must acknowledge diversity in backgrounds, experiences, and cultures
Competency 1.5.4 - Identify and analyze factors that foster or hinder acquisition skills HES
can develop health promotion interventions that address these attitudes and beliefs both
positive and negative.
, Competency 1.6: Examine factors that enhance or impede the process of health
education/promotion Factors should include:
Predisposing Factors
Enabling Factors
Reinforcing Factors
predisposing factors individual knowledge and affective traits
enabling factors factors that make possible a change in behavior
reinforcing factors feedback and encouragement resulting from a changed behavior,
perhaps from significant others
Competency 1.6.1 - Determine the extent of available health ed/promo programs and
interventions HES need to determine the availability of programs, services and/or policies
that already exist for the priority population
Competency 1.6.2 - Identify policies to related to health education/promo Health policy and
enforcement strategies come in a variety of formats (ex. exec. orders, laws, ordinance, position
statements, etc.)
Can occur at the national, state local and organiztaional leabels,
HES can plan more effective interventions w/ a knowledge and understanding of policies
related to health ed and promotion.
Education – Practice Questions and Answers
health equity attainment of the highest level of health for all people
Competency 1.5: Examine factors that influence the process by which people learn HES
must acknowledge learning impacts and select methods for delivering
Competency 1.5.1 - identify and analyze factors that foster or hinder the learning process
things that foster learning would be attitudes, different learning styles, and readiness to
adopts new strategies
use Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Events of Instruction ( Gagne's Theory of Instruction) 1. Gaining Attention
2. Informing the learner of objective
3. stimulating recall of prerequisite learning (review)
4. Presenting the stimulus material
5. eliciting desired behavior
6. providing feedback
7. assessing behavior
categories of learning
a) verbal information
b) cognitive strategies
c) intellectual skills
d) motor skills
e) attitudes
,Bloom's Taxonomy Knowledge - Recall of information of major ides (mastery of the subject
matter)
Comprehension - Understand information
Application - use information (solve problems using knowledge and skills)
Analysis - Identification of components & recognizing patterns
Synthesis - Relate knowledge from several areas (Predict and draw conclusions)
Evaluation - Compare and discriminate between idea (decide based on arguments)
Competency 1.5.2 - identify and analyze factors that hinder knowledge acquisition HES need
to use the info gathered to make program decisions and developing appropriate learning
experience for programs. Knowing barriers to learning will help health HES develop methods for
ind. and communities.
Competency 1.5.3 - identify and analyze factors that influence attitudes and beliefs HES
must understand the dynamics of priority populations in order to build relationships, respect,
and trust as well as to identify ways to collaborate effectively on interventions '
Must acknowledge diversity in backgrounds, experiences, and cultures
Competency 1.5.4 - Identify and analyze factors that foster or hinder acquisition skills HES
can develop health promotion interventions that address these attitudes and beliefs both
positive and negative.
, Competency 1.6: Examine factors that enhance or impede the process of health
education/promotion Factors should include:
Predisposing Factors
Enabling Factors
Reinforcing Factors
predisposing factors individual knowledge and affective traits
enabling factors factors that make possible a change in behavior
reinforcing factors feedback and encouragement resulting from a changed behavior,
perhaps from significant others
Competency 1.6.1 - Determine the extent of available health ed/promo programs and
interventions HES need to determine the availability of programs, services and/or policies
that already exist for the priority population
Competency 1.6.2 - Identify policies to related to health education/promo Health policy and
enforcement strategies come in a variety of formats (ex. exec. orders, laws, ordinance, position
statements, etc.)
Can occur at the national, state local and organiztaional leabels,
HES can plan more effective interventions w/ a knowledge and understanding of policies
related to health ed and promotion.
