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CHE 300 Final Project Guidelines and Rubric Overview The final project for this course is the creation of a health educational newsletter and an annotated version of the same newsletter . The final product represents an authentic demonstration of competency because you will submit one newsletter that is just for your target population and one annotated newsletter that justifies your reasoning for providing certain images, facts, and educati onal materials that will support the population to make a healthy change. A key aspect of health education is creating appropriate materials and strategies to relay health information to a target aud ience. In creating these materials, health educators are tasked with gathering the most up -to-date and credible information and communicating that information in a way that is effective for the target audience. Your final project for this course will require you to place yourself in the role of a health educato r and create a newsletter that accurately and effective communicates necessary health informat ion about a chosen health issue or topic. Specifically, you will select a target audience (s chool, workplace, or community of older individuals) from the list be low, and a corresponding health topic , on which to focus your work. Throughout the course , you will research the health information relevant to your topic and audience and craft a newsletter that appropriately communicates the information. This project wil l consist of two parts, submitted at the same time. The first part is a clean, polished newsletter to your audience. The second part will consist of the same newsletter, but must contain annotations that explain your choices an d reasoning. Keep in mind tha t both letters should be submitted to the ePortfolio that you have maintained throughout your program. Choose one of the following target audiences and one associated topic for your newsletter: 1. School: You are the health education coordinator for SNHU Mi ddle School and are tasked with creating a newsletter for a class ( Grade 6, 7, or 8 ) on a topic of your choice from the following: Eating healthy/physical activity Smoking Injury prevention Prescription drug abuse Bullying 2. Workplace: You are the worksite wellness coordinator for SNHU Enterprise, made up of a range of individuals (age s 20 to mid -60s) , and have been tasked with creating a newsl etter on a topic of your choice from the following: Tobacco use Flu vaccine Increasing mobility Violence Mental health/stress management 3. Community of older individuals : You are the wellness coordinator for SNHU Senior Center (a center geared toward seniors age 60 and up), and you have been tasked with creating a newsletter for the members of the c enter on a topic of your choice from the following: Sexually transmitted infections Obesity Nutrition/physical activity Tobacco use Mental health/depression/dementia The project is divided into three milestones , which will be submitted at various points throughout the course to scaffold learning and ensure quality final submissions. These milestones will be submitted in Modules Two, Four , and Five. The final product will be submitted in Module Seven. In this as signment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes: Utilize social and behavioral theoretical models to inform the development and presentation of health education materials Develop culturally competent health education materia ls that appropriately communicate information to target audiences Formulate SMART goals for measuring changes in behavior o r knowledge in community health Employ appropriate and credible resources for ensuring the dissemination of accura te community health information Prompt Using one of the provided templates, create a newsletter to educate your chosen target audience on a related health issue and attempt to influence their behavior toward healthier choices. You will create for the newsletter a main article, SMART goals, and any other content necessary to appropriately educate your target audience on the health issue. You will also include supporting data and images you find in your research to assis t in educating your target population. In bo th the creation and selection of content to include in the newsletter, ensure the informa tion you use is appropriate, up -to-date, and credible. You must employ cultural competence by appropriately tailoring the communication of the issue to the target audi ence. The creation of your newsletter must be informed by a social and behavioral theoretical model ; you will explain how you used the model to inform the development of the newsletter in Part II, your annotated version of the newsletter . Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed in your newsletter: Newsletter I. Newsletter: In this section , you will create your original newsletter that focuses on a specific health concern for the target audience. Use social and behavioral models to gui de the creation. Essentially, you should craft information about your selected health topic and communicate it in a way that is appropriate for your audience. Remember, the intent of your newsletter is to educate the audience in the hopes of in fluencing th eir behavior toward healthier choices. A. Models: Use behavioral and social theoretical model s to inform the development of your newsletter. Your instructor should be able to clearly see elements of the models in your unannotated newsletter, but you will also explain how you used the models in your annotated newsletter. B. Cultural Competence: In this section , you should focus on creating ma terials that are not culturally limiting, meaning your created materials should not be i nsult ing or exclusionary toward any particular culture. i. Language: Communicate the health information to the target audience using audience -appropriate language and design (including font and structure) that is inclusive (does not alienate an indiv idual of a particular culture). ii. Graphics: Utilize images and graphics that are appropriate for your target audience and issue a nd do not exclude individuals from the population. Make sure the images represent the population and that the population can identify with the images. For example, if your target audience is a class of six th graders, your images should depict various children, not adults or all males. C. SMART Goals: Create SMART goals for the target audience that will help guide changes in health behavior and be useful in measuring the issue’s improvement or changes over time. For example, if your health issue is smoking, one of your SMART goals might be for the targ et audience to buy one pack of cigarettes per week instead of two packs. D. Sources: Employ accura te, credible, up -to-date information as appropriate in your newsletter. E. Citations: Correctly cite the credible sources of your health information to ensure that the information in your newsletter will be take n seriously and you are not plagiarizing (whic h could impede the dissemination of your information to your target audience). Use the version of APA style that you have used throughout the course. Anno tated N ewsletter In this part of your final project, you must annotate (by adding comments, differentiatin g text color, highlighting, using Track Changes, etc.) your newsletter, explaining your reasoning and decisions. Specifically, the following critical elements must be annotated in your newsletter as directed: II. Rationale for Selection: Describ e your selected target population and associated health issue, including an explanation of why you made these selections and why you feel it is important to the field or target population. This should be annotated at the title of your newsletter. III. Theoreti cal Model: The f ollowing should be annotated in an area of your newsletter you feel mos t clearly shows its application: A. Justify Model: Justify why the theoretical model you used to inform your newsletter are appropriate for both your chosen issue and audience, suppor ting your claims with evidence. B. Application: Explain how the previous ly identified theoretical models were used in the development of your newsletter. Consi der what specific aspects of the theoretical model s were used and explain how they were used, with examples. For example, if you selected the transtheoretical model, you might provide a phone number to a “quit line” as a resource in the newsletter for segm ents of your audience in the contemplation stage. IV. Cultural Competence A. Language: Explain how the language you used in the newsletter is appropriate for your target audience, supporting your claims with evid ence. For examp le, if your target audience is si xth -grade students, you might use “germs” instea d of “bacterial fungus.” T his should be annotated in an area where you feel you made a conscious decision to utilize certain words to best fit your audience. B. Topic: Explain how the topic of your newsletter i s appropriate for your audience, including why the audience should receive education on the topic. Support your claims w ith evidence. For example, for six th graders, you might provide education on how the HPV vaccine can help lower chances of contracting t he disease. You should annotate your explanation in the area you describe your health topic to your audience. V. Goals: Annotations regardi ng goals should be located with the goals in your newsletter. A. SMART: Explain how t he goals in the newsletter are SMART goals, supporting your claims with evidence. For example, you will explain how the goals are measurable goals for the target audience. B. Justify Goals: Explain why the SMART goals used in the newsletter are appropriate for the specific audience and intent of the newsletter and would help in measuring changes and knowledge of the target audience, supporting your claims with evidence. For example, your goal may be for the audience to decrease the number of cigarette packs smoked in one day, which will provide a point for researching beha vior changes in the population, and this goal may be substantiated by a study conducted by the American Lung Association. VI. Justify Sources: Justify the appropriateness and credibility of the sources used to inform your newsletter. Justification of each source shoul d be annotated wh ere the source is used or where it is cited in your newsletter. Milestones Milestone One : Credible Sour ces In Module Two , after getting feedback from your peers, you will submit a document containing the list of at least five credible sources in A PA format that you plan to use to create content for your final project newsletter. This milestone will be grade d with the Milestone One Rubric. Milestone Two : Final Project Goal and Objectives In Module Four , you will submit one goal and two SMART objectives for your topic and population of choice o n which you received feedback from the small group activity. Defen d your goal and SMART o bjectives; why did you select them? Do you think they a re feasible? This milestone will be graded with the Milestone Two Rubric. Milestone Three : Asset Gathering for Final Project In Module Five , using your selected newsletter template from the first few modules, you will submit a draft of your newsletter that educates about the identified issue based on your target population. You will include population -specific assets , such as graphics, colors, images, and so on. This milest one will be graded with the Milestone Three Rubric. Final Submission : Health Education Newsletter ( Annotated and Unannotated ) In Module Seven , you will submit your final project. It should be a complete, polished artifact containing all of the critical e lements of the final product. It should reflect the incorporation of feedback gained throughout the course. This submission will be graded with the Final Project Rubric. Deliverables Milestone Deliverable Module Due Grading One Credible Source s Two Graded separately; Milestone One Rubric Two Final Project Goal and Objectives Four Graded separately; Milestone Two Rubric Three Gather Assets for the Final Project Five Graded separately; Milestone Three Rubric Final Submission: Health Education Newsletter (Annotated and Unannotated ) Seven Graded separately; Final Project Rubric Final Project Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your health education newsletter should be 2 pages in length (plus a cover page and references) and written in APA format. Use one of the provide d newsletter templates . Include at least five credible references cited in APA format. Submit a second, annotated version of your newsletter that clea rly include s the annotations within a copy of the original newsletter. This may be done by adding comments, differentiating text color, hi ghlighting, using Track Changes, and so on . Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (85%) Needs Improvement (55 %) Not Evident (0%) Value Newsletter: Models Meets “Proficient” criteria and use of models show s thorough knowledge of which models to use and how best to use them for the audience Clearly uses behavioral and social theoretical models consistently throughout the newsletter Uses behaviora l and social theoretical models but does so inconsistently Does not use behavioral and social theoretical models 9 Newsletter:Cultural Competence:
Language Meets “Proficient” criteria and the use of language demonstrates keen insight into the needs of the target audience for appropriately communicating health information Communicates health information to the target audience using audience -appropriate, inclusive language and design Communicates health inf orm ation to the target audience but lan guage or design is not audience - appropriate or is not inclusive Does not communicate health information to the target audience 7.5 Newsletter:
Cultural Competence:
Graphics Meets “Proficient” criteria and the use of images demonstrates keen insight into communica ting with the target audience and appropriately communicating health information Uses inclusive, appropriate images for audience and issue to communicate health information to the target audience Uses images to communicate health inf ormation to the target audience but images are not appropriate for the audience or issue or exclude individuals of the population Does not use images to communicate health information to the target audience 7.5 Newsletter: SMART Goals Meets “Proficient” criteria and SMART goals are especially well aligned to the issue and target audience Creates SMART goals for the t arget audience that will help guide changes in health behavior and be useful in measuring changes over time Creates SMAR T goals for the target audience but goals are unlikely to help guide changes in health behavior or be useful in measuring changes over time Does not create SMART goals for the target audience 8 Newsletter:
Sources Meets “Proficient” criteria and the use of resources demonstrate s keen insight into how to incorporate accurate community health information into education materials Employs accurate, credible, up -to- date information appropriately Employs accurate inf ormation either inappr opriately or that is outdated or not credible Does not employ accurate information 7.5 Newsletter:
Citations Correctly cites sources to ensure appropriate dissemination of information Incorrectly c ites sources to ensure appropriate dissemination of information, but incorrectly Does not cite sources 6 Rationale For Selection Meets “Proficient” criteria and shows keen insight into the importance of the health topic for the population Describes the target population and associated issue, explaining why the population was selected Describes the target population and associated issue, explaining why the population was selected, but with gaps in detail or clarity Does not describe the target population and associated issue 3 Theoretical Model: Justify Model Meets “Proficient” criteria and justification makes cogent connections between the theoretical model and the selected issue and audience Justifies the appropriateness of the theoretical model for both the selected issue and audience, suppor ting claims with evidence Justifies the appropriateness for the selected issue and audience, supporting claims with evidence, but with gaps in detail, accuracy, or support Does not justify the appropriateness for the selected issue and audience 7.5 The oretical Model:
Application Meets “Proficient” criteria and the use of specific examples demonstrates keen insight into the appropriate use of theoretical models to develop health education presentations Explains how the theoretical model was used in the development of the newsletter, providing specific examples Explains how the theoretical model was used in the development of the newsletter, providing examples, but with gaps in detail, accuracy, or specificity of examples Does not explain how the theor etical model was used in the development of the newsletter 7.5 Cultural Competence:
Language Meets “Proficient” criteria and the use of evidence demonstrates a keen insight into the needs of the target audience to appropriately tailor the communication of health information Explains how the language used in the newsletter is appropriate for the target audience, supporting claims with evidence Explains how the language used in the newsletter is appropriate for the target audience, supporting claims with evidence, but with gaps in detail, accuracy, or support Does not explain how the language used in the newsletter is appropriate for the target audience 6 Cultural Competence: Topic Meets “Proficient” criteria and the use of evidence demonstrates a keen insight into the needs of the target audience to appropriately tailor the communication of health information Explains the audience - appropriateness and importance of the topic of the newsletter for that audience, supporting claims with evidence Expl ains the audience - appropriateness and importance of the topic of the newsletter for that audience, but with gaps in detail, accuracy, or support Does not explain the audience - appropriateness and importance of the topic of the newsletter for that audience 6 Goals: SMART Meets “Proficient” criteria and the use of evidence demonstrates keen insight into formulating SMART goals for measuring changes in behavior or knowledge in health education Explains how t he goals in the newsletter are SMART goals, supporting claims with evidence Explains how t he goals in the newsletter are SMART goals, supporting claims with evidence, but with gaps in detail, accuracy, or support Does not explain how t he goals in the newsletter are SMART goals 6 Goals: J ustify Goals Meets “Proficient” criteria and the use of evidence demonstrates keen insight into the needs of the target audience to appropriately tailor SMART goals for measuring changes in behavior or knowledge of community health Explains why the SMART goals used in the newsletter are appropriate for the specific audience and intent, supporting claims evidence Explains why the SMART goals used in the newsletter are appropriate for the specific audience and intent, supporting claims evidence, but with g aps in detail, accuracy, or support Does not explain why the SMART goals used in the newsletter are appropriate for the specific audience and intent 6 Justify Sources Meets “Proficient” criteria and justification demonstrates keen insight into how sele cted sources are appropriate and credible for the target audience and issue Justifies the appropriateness and credibility of the sources used to inform the newsletter Justifies the appropriateness and credibility of the sources used t o inform the newslet ter but with gaps in detail or accuracy Does not justify the appropriateness and credibility of the sources used to inform the newsletter 7.5 Articulation of Response Submission is free of errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization and is prese nted in a professional and easy -to-read format Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organi zation that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas 5 Total 100%
