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ArticleHealth promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals2025

An Ongoing Teacher Professional Development Programme to Enhance Critical Health Literacy Pedagogies and Assessment.

Louisa R Peralta, Claire L Marvell, James Barkell, Kellie Burns, Claire Otten

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Article in Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Louisa R PeraltaHealth and Physical Education, School of Education and Social Work, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6205-8676
Claire L MarvellHealth and Physical Education, School of Education and Social Work, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
James BarkellHealth and Physical Education, School of Education and Social Work, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8245-7447
Kellie BurnsHealth and Physical Education, School of Education and Social Work, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Claire OttenSchool of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2016-251X

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issue addressedHealth literacy is an important asset for adolescents to develop through engagement in schooling and curriculum. The few studies that have focused on teachers, health literacy pedagogies and assessment, show that teachers find it difficult to enhance students' critical health literacy levels and to measure students' health literacy knowledge and capabilities using valid models. The aim of this study was to develop a longer-term PD programme for secondary school teachers to enhance their ability to plan for critical health literacy learning and to co-design with teachers a curricular model for assessing health literacy.

methodsTwo face-to-face (F2F) PD sessions and two online PD sessions were scheduled with three participating specialist Health and Physical Education (HPE) teachers, seven HPE programmes were deductively analysed using Nutbeam's health literacy hierarchy and the Australian Curriculum: HPE outcomes and content.

resultsAnalysis showed that interactive learning activities were dominant (64%), compared with functional (4%) and critical learning activities (4%). The co-designed curriculum model for measuring student health literacy was also developed for use in Australian schools. The resultant rubric is informed by Nutbeam's model, Broder et al.'s definition and Bloom's taxonomy.

conclusionTo our knowledge, this is the first ongoing teacher PD programme that has embedded co-design processes for teachers and researchers to design a curricular health literacy assessment model for Australian and international HPE programmes. SO WHAT?: The valid measurement and assessment of child and adolescent health literacy has largely been ignored in previous research. This study is the first attempt to co-design a curricular health literacy assessment for secondary schools that can be used by teachers and health professionals.

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Health LiteracySchool TeachersTeacher TrainingAdolescentAustraliaCurriculumFemaleHumansMaleProgram Developmentadolescenthealth educationhealth literacymeasurementpreventionschool

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