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Partnering with Community Experts to Assess Student Learning in Health Education

This project focused on engaging students in assessing health-related issues within Crawford County by utilizing various demographic, health screening, and safety behavior data. Students were tasked with identifying potential health problems, generating hypotheses, and designing statistical analyses. The culmination of their work was a professional presentation, including PowerPoint slides, delivered to health professionals from the Pennsylvania Department of Health, offering practical experience in data analysis and communication in a public health context.

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Partnering with Community Experts to Assess Student Learning in Health Education

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  1. PARTNERING WITH COMMUNITY EXPERTS TO ASSESS STUDENT LEARNING Wendy L. Stuhldreher and Kim Y-Z ForrestCommunity Health Program, Department of Health and Safety • Methods: • Students were assigned broad general topic areas from the database • Demographic Data • Health screening Data • Health care providers’ advice data (such as quitting smoking) • Safety behavior data (wearing seatbelts, smoking, drinking and driving) • Healthful lifestyle behavior data (dietary and exercise patterns) Students’ responsibilities Examine the frequencies of assigned topic variables to generate some idea of what might be a problem area for Crawford County Generate hypothesis(es) to investigate that appeared to be a health problem in Crawford County Design a plan for statistical analysis to investigate that hypothesis in the general population and by sub groups (age, sex, income, educational level) Design a professional presentation complete with PowerPoint slides and a script that could be used by any of the SHIP partners in the Community. Give the presentation in front of professionals from PaDOH as the final exam for both courses. Pa Department of Health Professionals’ responsibilities: • At initiation • Provided clean dataset for the Crawford County Health Assessment • For the final exam • Use a rubric to provide timely feedback to students about their entry level professional skills

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