Assessment Tools for School Health Education
Pre-service and In-service Edition

Participant Guide

Whether you’re a teacher candidate or a seasoned instructor wanting in-depth information on applying assessment strategies in the classroom, Assessment Tools for School Health Education provides a comprehensive resource for school health assessment. With an emphasis on performance-based assessment, this guide offers a solid foundation in school health assessment. It demonstrates the linkages among standards, assessment, curriculum, and instruction for continuous improvement in learning and instruction.

Each guide includes:

• HEAP Assessment Framework, which provides guidelines for developing assessment items
• HEAP scoring rubrics
• definitions and examples of performance-based assessment
• examples of student work that have been scored according to HEAP's rubrics
• a sample lesson that relates to the assessment system
• exercises to enhance learning
• suggested readings

Instructor Guide

This Instructor Guide is designed to help educators, including school district curriculum coordinators and higher education faculty, use Assessment Tools for School Health with teachers so they can apply principles to classrooms. It can be used for professional development both for educators who are currently teaching school health education and for those who are preparing to teach it.

The Assessment Tools for School Health Education Instructor Guide focuses on how to teach assessment in standards-based, skills-based health education.

Using this resource, educators will be able to:

• analyze the components of performance-based assessment in the classroom
• evaluate how assessment informs instruction in health education
• describe the National Health Education Standards
• synthesize performance tasks for use in the classroom
• develop skills for scoring student work

Using the Instructor Guide, trainers and educators will find training strategies, resources, and assignments for each chapter in the Participant Guide.