Nancy Hudson CCSSO HEAP Coordinator 202-336-7008 [email protected] www.ccsso.org/heap http://scassheap.org Expanding the Reach of HEAP Demonstration of the HEAP’s Web-based System January 28, 2010
Jan 16, 2016
Nancy HudsonCCSSO HEAP Coordinator
www.ccsso.org/heaphttp://scassheap.org
Expanding the Reach of HEAPDemonstration of the HEAP’s Web-based System
January 28, 2010
• Nancy Hudson, CCSSO– SCASS HEAP Coordinator– 202-336-7008– [email protected]
• Sara Moshman, Metalogic, Inc.– HEAP Web-based System– 402-474-6194– [email protected]
• Tami Benham Deal– HEAP Member/University professor– 307-766-4284– [email protected]
Contact Information
• Provide a quick overview of the HEAP
• Through exploring the technologies used by the HEAP to advance its work: – expand the reach of HEAP to better coordinate pre-
service and in-service programs in standards-based health education and assessment.
– Determine interest in helping HEAP develop and fund a research agenda to show impact in HEAP’s efforts to improve teaching and learning in school health education and student health literacy
• Help us explore different fiscal models for HEAP to help the collaborative grow and be more inclusive.
• Answer questions/Next Steps
Webinar Objectives
• CCSSO – Council of Chief State School Officers
• SCASS – State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards
• HEAP – Health Education Assessment Project
Important Acronyms
Goals of Public Health and Public Education
Collaborative of states and large education agencies. Members pay a yearly membership fee to join ($15,000)
• Focus of this project is to:– modify the way teachers teach – adopt skills-based
standards-based instructional practices– foster student acquisition of skills that lead to health
literacy
• Goal is to provide products, services, and networking to members to build their capacity to: – develop effective state training structures– document implementation – improve health, assessment & technology literacy of
members, educators, students
Health Education Assessment Project
• Arkansas• California• DC Charter &
Public Schools• DoDEA• Florida• Hawaii• Kansas• Kentucky• Idaho• Maryland • Michigan
• Minnesota• Mississippi• North Carolina• Pennsylvania• Philadelphia School
District• South Carolina• South Dakota• Texas• Vermont• Wisconsin• Wyoming
22 Members of HEAP 09-10
• Steering Committee – Meets before and after face-to-face HEAP meetings,
have own listserv, have periodic business meetings by web-ex, help develop the HEAP meeting agenda
• Health and Reading Committee– Meet during HEAP face-to-face meetings, meet by
web-ex monthly or more, work on the book templates.
• Item Development Committee– Meet during HEAP face-to-face meetings, meet by
web-ex monthly or more, work on the cognitive complexity sets, and new item development
HEAP Committees 09-10
Health literacy is the capacity of an individual to obtain, interpret, and understand basic health information and services, and the competence to use such information and services in ways which are health-enhancing.
Joint Committee on Health Education Standards (1995)
HEALTH LITERACY
HEAP Products
HEAP PD Resources can be purchased through ToucanEd, Inc. www.toucaned.com/heap
MetaCat technology developed by MetaLogic, Inc.http://www.metalogic1.com
HEAP website: http://scassheap.org
1. Searchable Bank of over 2000 Assessment Items (E, MS, HS, 4 types of items) providing teachers the ability to:
Search, view, select and download items, Easily administer online testing of students, if desired, andObtain test results data in real-time to inform instruction
2. Distance Learning CourseSix PD Modules that can be adapted by members
3. Item Development Tool Collaborative item development with edit history
4. Cognitive Complexity SetsPD tool to help members and trained teachers to produce more cognitively complex
assessments
5. Health and Reading Component Health related books, discussion questions, assessments teacher resources, aligned with Lexile levels
6. Media/Documents LibrariesHouses media objects for assessment development/documents for training
The HEAP Web-based Technology