Is it necessary to complete the entire HECAT for each curriculum that is reviewed?
It is not necessary, but all categories and items can be useful for selecting or developing a curriculum. You can determine which items in the HECAT are useful and important to include in your curriculum analysis and in the selection or development process. You also have the choice of determining how you want to use the HECAT items in your review process. For example, some curriculum review teams have used Chapter 2, General Curriculum Information to collect general descriptive information about the curriculum, developer and the year of development, topic areas, and grade levels, and Chapter 5, Curriculum Fundamentals, to appraise the learning objectives, teacher materials, curriculum design, instructional strategies and materials, promotion of norms that value positive health behaviors, and promotion of skills that reinforce positive health behaviors of a health education curriculum, to make initial decisions and shorten the list of curricula to be seriously considered. The remainder
