CHES Certification Exam Review
2. The things health professionals believe the priority population must have or be able to do in order to
resolve the problem correct answersWhen 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 correct answersThe 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 correct answersWhich 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 correct answersWhich 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 correct answersWhich 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 correct answersWhen 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 correct answersThere 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. correct answersWhen 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 correct answersWhen 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 correct answersA 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
