Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT)
What can the HECAT do for my school?

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The Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT) will help schools conduct a clear, complete, and consistent analysis of health education curricula based on the National Health Education Standards and Characteristics of Effective Health Education Curricula. Modules are available to help analyze curricula that address alcohol and other drugs, healthy eating, mental and emotional health, personal health and wellness, physical activity, safety, sexual health, tobacco, and violence prevention.

The tool features–

• Guidance for reviewing curricula using the HECAT and using the HECAT results to make health education curriculum decisions.
• Templates for recording important descriptive curriculum information for use in the curriculum review process.
• Preliminary curriculum considerations, such as accuracy, acceptability, feasibility, and affordability analyses.
• Curriculum fundamentals, such as teacher materials, instructional design, and instructional strategies and materials analyses.
• Specific health-topic concept and skills analyses.
• Customizable templates for state or local use.
• Summary Score Forms for consolidating scores from the review of a single curriculum and to compare scores across multiple curricula.

HECAT results can help schools select or develop appropriate and effective health education curricula, enhance existing curricula, and improve the delivery of health education.

Contact us with questions about using HECAT in your local setting.

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Page last reviewed: January 28, 2009
Page last modified: January 28, 2009
Content source: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Adolescent and School Health

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