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Field 112: Health and Physical Education Subtest 1: Health Education
Sample Multiple-Choice Questions

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Subarea 1—HEALTH PROMOTION AND RISK REDUCTION

Objective 001—Understand principles and concepts of health promotion and disease prevention.

1. Obesity places students at significant risk for which of the following health conditions?

  1. low blood pressure, fainting, and anemia
  2. vitamin and mineral toxicity and kidney damage
  3. muscular atrophy and premature closing of growth plates
  4. impaired glucose uptake and high blood pressure
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Correct Response: D.

2. A health education program includes the following initiatives.

These initiatives are most closely aligned with which of the following theories or models?

  1. social cognitive theory
  2. stages of change model
  3. theory of reasoned action
  4. health belief model
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Correct Response: A.

3. Which of the following statements best describes how emotional health is interrelated to the other major dimensions of health and wellness (e.g., social, physical, intellectual, financial, spiritual, environmental)?

  1. Optimal emotional health is required to achieve health in all other dimensions.
  2. Optimal health in other dimensions provides protective factors for emotional health.
  3. Emotional health cannot be achieved without social and financial health.
  4. Physical health has a more significant effect on emotional health than any other dimension.
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Correct Response: B.

4. Viral sexually transmitted infections (STIs) differ from bacterial STIs in that they:

  1. are transmitted only when symptoms are present or visible.
  2. cannot be treated effectively with antibiotic drugs.
  3. usually resolve on their own over time with no permanent effects.
  4. can only be transmitted through sexual intercourse rather than sexual contact.
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Correct Response: B.
Objective 002—Understand personal safety and injury prevention, and skills and strategies for preventing and reducing risks related to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

5. Which of the following approaches should students use to maintain personal safety when asked to participate in unsupervised, potentially risky activities?

  1. observing and mimicking the actions of another student who seems at ease with the activity
  2. partnering with a friend so that each partner can encourage, support, and monitor the other while participating in the activity
  3. asking one's peers to be completely honest about what they perceive the level of danger associated with the activity to be
  4. avoiding quick decisions about whether to participate in an activity until the likely consequences of participation are considered
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Correct Response: D.

6. A student who is at a party is offered an unknown substance. The student laughs, says she never touches the stuff, and walks away. Two friends who have been drinking ask a sober friend for a ride home. The sober student tells the friends that he is tired of chauffeuring them and from now on they can ride in his car only if they are sober. These scenarios depict ways in which students can avoid risky situations by:

  1. enlisting and supporting others in making positive health choices.
  2. using negotiation and refusal skills to counteract peer pressure.
  3. distinguishing between internal and external influences on health behaviors.
  4. applying reverse-the-pressure and conflict management techniques to resist bullying.
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Correct Response: B.

7. Which of the following statements is a stipulation of Michigan state law on the age of sexual consent?

  1. The legal age of consent for sexual activity is 17.
  2. Individuals under the age of 16 are not legally able to consent to sexual activity.
  3. Legal consent is waived when a teenager aged 15 or older agrees to a sexual relationship with another teenager.
  4. The legal age of consent for sexual activity is 18.
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Correct Response: B.

Subarea 2—HEALTH LITERACY AND SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL HEALTH

Objective 003—Understand factors that affect mental and emotional health, and skills and strategies for developing and maintaining healthy interpersonal, social, and family relationships.

8. A health education teacher uses the following steps and examples to introduce a communication skill to elementary school students.

  1. Tell how you feel. Follow I feel with an emotion word, such as angry, upset, or disrespected.
  2. State the problem behavior: I feel upset when you insult me.
  3. Tell why it's a problem: I feel upset when you insult me because it's embarrassing.
  4. Tell what you want to happen: I want you to stop insulting me.

This communication strategy is particularly effective for helping students:

  1. acknowledge a conversation partner's emotions so that the partner feels listened to.
  2. check their understanding of a speaker's message by restating it in their own words.
  3. express feelings appropriately in interactions so that tensions do not escalate.
  4. learn how to use a consensus-building process in a small-group setting to reach a shared agreement.
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Correct Response: C.

9. Interviews with students who engage in cutting and other self-harming behaviors have revealed that they tend to use these behaviors as:

  1. rehearsals or trial runs of suicide plans and intentions.
  2. methods of redirecting or overcoming urges to inflict pain or violence on others.
  3. devices for quickly gaining the attention of peers and family members.
  4. mechanisms for coping with emotional pain, trauma, desperation, or numbness.
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Correct Response: D.

10. One significant reason why teenagers often find it difficult to resist negative peer pressure to engage in risky behaviors is that at the adolescent stage of development, they:

  1. have not yet developed the cognitive ability to distinguish between right and wrong.
  2. need to maintain, as much as possible, a separation from parents/guardians.
  3. do not have the judgment skills or resiliency to resist persuasive arguments.
  4. are open to many influences and experiences as they go through the process of identity formation.
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Correct Response: D.
Objective 004—Understand influences on health behaviors, and strategies and activities for promoting students' health literacy skills.

11. During a nutrition unit, students will maintain a confidential five-day journal of food consumed, activity expended, and sleep obtained. Which of the following activities would be most appropriate to use at the beginning of this unit to increase students' health literacy skills?

  1. having students compare nutrition information for popular fast-food items with the nutritional information for school lunch foods
  2. asking small groups of students to use .gov and .org Web sites to develop a week's worth of healthy meal plans and present them to other groups
  3. guiding students in using interactive tools on the USDA's dietary guidance Web site to learn about daily requirements, food group targets, and eating patterns and plans
  4. demonstrating for students how to use nutrition facts panels on food products to estimate the percentage of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates needed for optimal daily functioning
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Correct Response: C.

12. Michigan public health laws require children to receive immunizations before entering school in order to:

  1. prevent the transmission of acute, infectious diseases.
  2. help children build immunity to non-communicable diseases.
  3. prevent communicable diseases from exacerbating existing childhood illnesses.
  4. help reduce chronic childhood infections that can lead to neurological impairments.
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Correct Response: A.

13. A health education teacher shows the class a Web site for a product that can be used to treat opioid withdrawal and a variety of other conditions and diseases including depression, diabetes, high blood pressure, diverticulitis, anxiety, and alcoholism. Students should evaluate this product with suspicion primarily because:

  1. weight loss is not included in the list of conditions.
  2. the supplement uses vague language.
  3. the product is too good to be true.
  4. the supplement is beyond the control of federal regulations.
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Correct Response: C.

Subarea 3—THE HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAM

Objective 005—Understand the role of the health education teacher in promoting students' ability to make health-enhancing choices and maintain healthy lifestyles.

14. A teacher organizes students into small groups to draft public service announcements (PSAs) about current health-related issues. Once student groups have chosen a topic, which of the following steps should they take next in developing their PSAs?

  1. identifying the audience they hope to reach with their PSA
  2. researching additional PSAs associated with public health and safety media campaigns
  3. determining what type of visual content should accompany their PSA
  4. deciding on the type of media (e.g., social, broadcast) in which their PSA should appear
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Correct Response: A.

15. The parent of a health education student contacts the health education teacher and states that she suspects that her son is abusing prescription medication. The parent asks the teacher for help with finding effective ways to help her son stop using drugs and to keep him safe. In which of the following ways should the health education teacher respond to the parent in this situation?

  1. by rephrasing the parent's information to check understanding and asking the parent for additional details on the student's behavior that indicates drug use
  2. by providing the parent with the Web site addresses of drug prevention organizations and recommending that the parent first try to determine what type of drug the student is using
  3. by checking with the parent to determine whether the student's other family members and the family's primary health care provider are aware of the problem
  4. by connecting the parent with a school counselor and providing contact information for school and community resources that address preventing and treating youth drug use
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Correct Response: D.
Objective 006—Understand the foundations of health education and the professional responsibilities of a health education teacher.

16. A health education teacher returns from a professional development conference with a sex education resource that the teacher would like to include in the curriculum. The teacher's first step should be to:

  1. share the resource in class.
  2. ask the principal for permission to use the resource.
  3. consult the sex education advisory board.
  4. check with colleagues at other schools.
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Correct Response: C.
Objective 007—Understand how to plan and implement developmentally appropriate instruction in the health education program.

17. Incorporating best practices into school health education programs is an overarching goal of teachers. Which of the following strategies is generally most effective to use in accomplishing this goal?

  1. ensuring that a minimum of 150 hours per school year are allotted to health education instruction
  2. focusing instruction on student acquisition of scientifically accurate health-related facts and information
  3. ensuring that instruction is skill-based and supported by evidence-based research on developing student's functional health knowledge
  4. focusing instruction on interdisciplinary content and integrating health education themes and lessons with as many other subject areas as possible
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Correct Response: C.

18. Which practice is likely to be most important for a health education teacher to use when planning and implementing health and wellness activities for students from a variety of cultural backgrounds?

  1. ensuring that all students are proficient in health education vocabulary, so that cultural differences do not interfere with academic language learning
  2. familiarizing students with as many different cultural-based health and wellness behaviors and perspectives as possible
  3. pairing or grouping students from similar cultural backgrounds together for health and wellness activities in order to increase students' comfort levels
  4. remaining mindful that health-related beliefs and practices vary across cultures and that health-related behaviors can be perceived differently
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Correct Response: D.
Objective 008—Understand the use of a variety of assessment strategies and tools to evaluate student learning and progress and to improve health education instruction.

19. Which type of information would be most helpful for a health education teacher to use when communicating with parents/guardians about their child's performance and progress?

  1. a list of instructional topics covered in the last month and the approximate time devoted to each topic
  2. bibliographies of the instructional resources that inform health education lessons
  3. a description of the relative advantages and disadvantages of each major type of assessment used
  4. copies of scored rubrics and scoring criteria used for class assignments and projects
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Correct Response: D.

20. A health education teacher is planning an instructional unit on self-management and life skills. Which statement about the teacher's plan best reflects an appropriate strategy for ensuring students' acquisition of targeted skills?

  1. The teacher will use ongoing assessment of student performance relative to defined unit goals to identify needs and plan upcoming instruction.
  2. The students will have opportunities throughout the unit to develop their own learning goals either individually, in groups, or as a class.
  3. The teacher will provide accurate and specific information related to unit topics before moving on to instruction involving higher-order thinking skills.
  4. The students will be offered choices in the activities and materials they will use to achieve unit objectives, with options reflecting a range of students' interests.
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Correct Response: A.