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Health Education Assessment Project (HEAP)

The HEAP SCASS works to develop effective health education assessment resources through a collaborative process. HEAP increases members' capacity to align curriculum, instruction, and assessment to improve student health literacy through improved health education instruction.

The HEAP SCASS is currently focused developing several products through their custom web-based system:

  • Developing Cogntivie Complexity Sets of assessment items based on the skill standards of the National Health Education Standards and Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. These will be used to provide professional development for teachers as well as improve the HEAP item bank but increasing the number of more cognitively complex items.
  • Developing book templates of books with health topics. Templates include discussion questions for both health content and health skills. Also includes assessments, vocabulary words, and teacher resources.

HEAP Collaborative Advisor: Nancy Hudson
Nancy Hudson is the collaborative advisor of the HEAP SCASS. At CCSSO, she coordinates the work of 22 educational agencies to advance standards-based health education and assessment. She has also worked with state and local school systems and health departments in developing and providing health education curriculum development and teacher training.

Members
Arkansas, California, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, Wisconsin Wyoming, DC Public Schools, Philly Sc. Dis

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