Nancy HudsonCCSSO HEAP Coordinator

202-336-7008nancyh@ccsso.org

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– nancyh@ccsso.org

• Sara Moshman, Metalogic, Inc.– HEAP Web-based System– 402-474-6194– smoshman@metalogic1.com

• Tami Benham Deal– HEAP Member/University professor– 307-766-4284– benham@uwyo.edu

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