The process whereby an individual or a professional preparation program meets specific established
standards is known as - Answers credentialing
The process by which an agency or government (usually a state) grants permission to individuals to
practice a given profession by certifying that those individuals have attained specific standards of
competence is known as - Answers licensure
The process by which a recognized professional body evaluates an entire college or university
professional preparation program is known as - Answers accreditation
A process by which a professional organization grants recognition to an individual who, upon
completion of a competency-based curriculum, can demonstrate a predetermined standard of
performance is known as - Answers certification
Health education specialists typically receive what type of credential upon completion of a national
exam? - Answers Certification
Once a health education specialist is certified, which set of initials may be used after one's name and
academic degree? - Answers CHES
Health education specialists who receive advanced certification may use which initials after their
name and academic degree? - Answers MCHES
During which decade did the role delineation project begin? - Answers 1970s
The health education specialist most responsible for initiating the Role Delineation Project was -
Answers Helen Cleary.
A conference held in February, 1978, to determine the function of health education specialists
practicing in different settings was the - Answers Bethesda Conference on Commonalities and
Differences.
The first official group that oversaw the Role Delineation Project and eventually a credentialing
system for health education specialists was the - Answers National Task Force on the Preparation and
Practice of Health Educators.
The individual hired as project director for the Role Delineation Project was - Answers Alan
Henderson.
To make the initial curriculum guide based on the verified role of a health education specialist less
rigid, it was transformed into - Answers a curriculum framework.
At this conference, participants were divided into five groups and asked to respond to several
predetermined questions. Results were that four of the five groups favored some type of certification
for individuals and some form of credentialing for professional preparation programs. - Answers
Second Bethesda Conference
Which of the following groups was hired to develop the initial health education certification exam? -
Answers Professional Examination Service
Which of the following was established to continue the work of the National Task Force and create a
more permanent structure to coordinate and oversee the certification process? - Answers National
Commission for Health Education Credentialing
Which of the following is not a benefit of national certification? - Answers Guaranteeing the quality of
work a certified individual will provide
Which of the following is not a requirement for an individual to sit for the CHES exam? - Answers
Possess a minimum of three years of experience working as a health education specialist.
Graduate-level competencies were established in which decade? - Answers 1990s
A project conducted to reverify the competencies and sub-competencies of a health education
specialist is known as the - Answers Competencies Update Project (CUP).
The Competencies Update Project (CUP) was initiated to - Answers reverify the initial competencies
and sub-competencies of a health education specialist.
What was the name of the study conducted in order to update the health education competencies
that had been most recently revised in 2005 by the CUP project? - Answers Health Education Job
Analysis 2010
Health education programs that are affiliated with a college of education and train students for
positions in school health would most likely be accredited through the - Answers National
Commission for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).