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0856 Health and Physical Education:
Content Knowledge
Take the TAAG 17-item Sample Quiz.
The Health and Physical Education test is designed for prospective teachers of health and
physical education.
| Test Name |
Health and Physical Education: Content Knowledge |
| Test Code |
0856 |
| Number of Questions |
120 |
| Time |
2 hours |
| Format |
Multiple-choice questions |
| Content Categories |
Approximate Number of Questions |
Approximate Percentage of Examination
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Health |
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| I. |
Personal Health Care |
19 |
16% |
| II. |
Family Living and Sex Education |
16 |
14% |
| III. |
Community Health/Diseases and Disorders |
15 |
12% |
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Physical Education |
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| IV. |
Fundamental Movements, Motor Development, and
Motor Learning |
22 |
18% |
| V. |
Movement Forms |
23 |
19% |
| VI. |
Fitness and Exercise Science |
25 |
21% |
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Health - Approximately 42% or
50 of the 120 test questions
- Personal Health Care (approximately 16% or 19 questions)
 | Nutrition: dietary goals and guidelines, the food pyramid, nutrients, metabolism,
calories, fad diets, and the relationship between diet and exercise
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| Mental and emotional health: self-concept/self-esteem, personality development, defense
mechanisms
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| Consumer health: quackery, advertising, importance of regular checkups, personal
responsibility for healthy behavior, and health "myths"
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| Drug use and abuse: alcohol, tobacco, over-the-counter drugs, prescription drugs,
illegal substances, "non-drug drugs" such as caffeine, causes for the use and abuse of
substances, alternate coping skills, physical and psychological effects, treatment and
recovery
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| Safety and injury prevention: general and specific safety considerations for all
movement activities; fitness-related safety considerations, such as warm-up/cool down,
harmful exercise techniques, and environmental conditions; health-related fitness
appraisals; personal goal-setting and assessment, such as Physical Best, President's
Challenge, and Fitnessgram; handling accidents and illnesses: personal safety, the safety
risks, first aid techniques such as CPR and the Heimlich maneuver, water safety
certification; legal aspects of equipment and class organization
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| Methods, strategies, and resources for evaluating students' health behaviors and
effecting appropriate changes and meeting a pluralistic society's needs for health education
relative to differing socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds
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Family Living and Sex Education (approximately 14% or 16 questions)
| Reproductive anatomy and physiology: growth and development of the male and female
reproductive systems, family planning, pregnancy and childbirth
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| Psychosocial development: family structure relationships, peer relationships, values and
decision-making, understanding of bodily changes, and personal growth and development
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| Dating and marriage: readiness, responsibility, communication, and assertiveness
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| Parenting: responsibilities, child-rearing practices, and communication
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| Family and societal problems: conflict resolution, domestic violence, rape, incest, teen
pregnancy, and divorce
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| Gerontology: relation of life-style to health maintenance, services for older citizens,
dealing with pain and infirmity
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| Death and dying: acceptance, dealing with grief, services and facilities for the ill,
and planning for death
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Community Health/Diseases and Disorders (approximately 12% or 15 questions)
| Environmental issues: population, resources, pollution, and urban-rural considerations
Health agencies: public and private agencies, services provided, cost considerations, and
health care delivery systems
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| Health careers: types of occupational positions, educational requirements prior to
training, and formal training required
|
| Communicable diseases: infectious diseases, including sexually transmitted diseases
(STDs)
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| Chronic diseases: cardiovascular and neurological diseases, cancer, diabetes, and other
major illnesses
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| Genetic: Tay-Sachs, sickle cell anemia, cystic fibrosis, Down syndrome
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| Mental and emotional illness: depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and suicide
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| Causes, prevention, control, treatment, and counseling for communicable diseases;
chronic diseases; genetic disorders; and mental illness, particularly related to teenage
depression and suicide |
Physical Education -
Approximately 58% or 70 of the 120 test questions
| Fundamental Movements, Motor Development, and Motor Learning (approximately 16% or 19
questions)
| Fundamental movements: locomotor, nonlocomotor, manipulative, and falling/landing
movement skills; movement concepts such as body, space, effort, and relationship
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| Growth and motor development: role of perception in motor development, such as in
spatial movement relationships; neurophysiology of motor control; effects of maturation and
experience on motor patterns; biological and environmental influences on gender differences
in motor performances
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| Motor learning: classical and current theories of motor learning; variables that affect
learning and performance; effects of individual differences on learning and performance
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| Movement Forms (approximately 19% or 23 questions)
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| Dance and rhythmic activities: dance forms, such as folk, square, and aerobic dancing;
skill analysis of dance movements
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| Gymnastics: stunts and tumbling, use of gymnastic apparatus, movement themes in
educational gymnastics
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| Games: game forms, including invasion games; cooperative and competitive games; analysis
of skills, rules, and strategies of particular games
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| Individual/dual/team sports: analysis of skills, injury prevention and safety, rules and
strategies, facilities and equipment, lifetime activities and recreational pursuits,
adventure and outdoor pursuits, and the martial arts; emphasis is on basketball, soccer,
softball, tennis, track and field, and volleyball
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| Fitness and Exercise Science (approximately 21% or 25 questions)
| Components: cardiorespiratory and muscular endurance, body composition, flexibility
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| Conditioning practices and principles: frequency, intensity, time/duration, the role of
exercise
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| Human biology: anatomy and physiology, including identification of major muscles, bones,
and systems of the human body and their functions; exercise physiology, including
terminology, components of fitness, principles of exercise, roles of body systems in
exercise, short- and long-term effects of physical training, relationship between nutrition
and fitness
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| Biomechanics: terminology: mass, force, friction; basic principles of movement:
summation of forces, center of gravity, force/speed relations, torque; application of basic
principles to sports skills; methods of analyzing movement; analysis of basic movement
patterns: overhand throw, underhand throw, kick |
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