CHES Certification Exam Review
Questions and Answers
2. The things health professionals believe the priority population must have or be able to
do in order to resolve the problem - Answers -When conducting a needs assessment,
the Health Education Specialist identifies and measures gaps between what is and what
ought to occur in the community. Which of the following is an example of service needs
among the priority population?
1. The things people in the priority population say they must have or be able to do in
order to resolve the problem
2. The things health professionals believe the priority population must have or be able to
do in order to resolve the problem
3. The conditions in which people in the priority population are born, live, work play, and
age that affect their health risks, health, daily functioning and quality of life
4. The measure of actual and potential individual, group, and community resources that
can be used for health maintenance and enhancement of people in the priority
population
Create, devise, formulate, or plan - Answers -The health education specialist is using
Bloom's Taxonomy to prepare the health education lesson. If the learners are expected
to synthesize information from previous coursework, which verbs would be used when
writing this learning objective?
1. Create, devise, formulate, or plan
2. Demonstrate, illustrate, use, or show
3. Explain, outline, re-state, or summarize
4. Choose, justify, debate or assess
4. Attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction - Answers -Which of the following
terms accurately describes the acronyms in the ARCS Motivation Model?
1. Ability, repetition, challenging, and selective
2. Accurate, rehearsed, coordinated, and sensible
3. Accessible, responsive, comfortable, and sequential
4. Attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction
3. Creating a rationale and providing the references used in the rationale - Answers -
Which of the following set of items IS NOT the steps a health education specialist would
use in designing and completing a survey?
1. Pre-testing the questionnaire, revising the questionnaire, and administering the
questionnaire
,2. Entering, tabulating, and analyzing data
3. Creating a rationale and providing the references used in the rationale
4. Planning the survey, designing the survey, and collecting the data.
1. Autonomy framework - personal right to self-determination and choice - Answers -
Which of the following ethical frameworks correctly provides a rationale for the needs
assessment to the health education specialist?
1. Autonomy framework - personal right to self-determination and choice
2. Resource sensitive - the greatest good for the greatest number of people
3. Utilitarian framework - equal opportunity to meet one's own needs
4. Needs-based framework - all persons have equal value
3. Self-actualization - Answers -When the health education specialist offers training to
challenges the learner or teaches skills for the learner to make progress towards his/her
personal long-term goals, what level of Mazlow's Hierarchy of Needs is being met?
1. Esteem
2. Physiological
3. Self-actualization
4. Safety
2. The epidemiological model, the public health model, the asset model, the social
model, and the rapid model - Answers -There are five models for a health education
specialist to use when conducting a needs assessment. These five models include:
1. The process model, the resource model, the consumer orientation model, the
resource management model, and the community building model
2. The epidemiological model, the public health model, the asset model, the social
model, and the rapid model
3. Community awareness model, the service delivery model, the community
organization model, the community capacity model, and grassroots participation model
4. The community health model, the service model, the needs model, the community
support model, and the decision making model
3.
Explain the immediate value of the new knowledge and skills. - Answers -When
presenting information to adult learners, which of the following suggestions should the
health education specialist remember?
1. Adults will be most engaged if the lesson is not tied to their past experiences.
2. Use a lecture-based teaching method because adults learn best from hearing
information.
3. Explain the immediate value of the new knowledge and skills.
4. Avoid making relationships with the session content and the participant's job or work.
, 1. High changeability and high importance - Answers -When the health education
specialist must prioritize health needs of the priority population in order to determine
which of several interventions should be implemented, which one should be selected?
The one that has/is:
1. High changeability and high importance
2. Low changeability and high importance
3. High changeability and less importance
4. Low changeability and less importance
2. Identify community resources, abilities, strengths, skills, and talents - Answers -A
community health education specialist is working on a plan to implement an assets-
based assessment to measure the community's capacity to solve its health problems.
What is the first step the health education specialist should take in this process?
1. Rally the community to develop a healthy vision of the future
2. Identify community resources, abilities, strengths, skills, and talents
3. Mobilize the community around its strengths/resources
4. Create or strengthen the relationships between community members and community
organizations
1.
Program effectiveness and efficiency - Answers -Which of the following can be easily
measured by the use of a logic model?
1. Program effectiveness and efficiency
2. Involvement and participation by the priority population
3. The cost-benefit analysis of the proposed program
4. The purpose or mission of the proposed program
4. Make personal contact with key representatives or those with key roles in the
organization - Answers -A health education specialist often needs to obtain input from
priority populations and other stakeholders. What can be done to reduce or remove
potential obstacles from these individuals to provide information/assistance?
1. Select individuals who have lots of free time to express their attitudes, perceptions,
and beliefs
2. Solicit information from unpaid volunteers and bystanders
3. Ask key individuals to provide the needed information in a written format
4. Make personal contact with key representatives or those with key roles in the
organization
2. Research the potential partner organization's mission - Answers -Your
agency/organization is considering forming a simple partnership with another
community organization in order to enhance the joint health education efforts of both
organizations. What is the logical first step to be taken?