Health Knowledge and Behavior of Junior High School Students: Nebraska Regional Medical Program. Final Report: Project 0013.

This paper reports on a survey conducted to assist the health education faculty of the Nebraska Center for Health Education, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The objectives of the study were to: (1) gather base line data on the health knowledge and behavior of a sample of Nebraska junior high school students; (2) compare Nebraska junior high school students' achievement scores on a nationally standardized test to national norms; (3) compare achievement scores of students who have benefited from a health education experience with those who have not; and (4) compare achievement scores of health students taught by trained and untrained health teachers. Three tables giving the results of the survey are included. Table one gives the comparison of Nebraska scores and national norms. Table two offers an analysis of student performance in selected health education content areas by educational experience. Table three presents the students' mean scores as related to the training background of their teachers. (JD)