NCHEC provides continuous development and oversight of the nationally-standardized CHES examination offered biannually across at testing centers across the US (April and October cycles).
The responsibility of all health educators is to aspire to the highest possible standards of conduct and to encourage the ethical behavior of all those with whom they work.
One study evaluated student adherence to NCHEC areas of responsibility through a service learning or experience-based tracking paradigm.
[6] NCHEC spearheaded the National Health Educator Competencies Update Project (CUP) in 1998 and continued until 2004.
By the end of the multiphase study, the CUP analysts realized that it represented one of the largest national data sets ever assembled of health educators (N=4,030), and found common sets of competencies valued across the majority of health educators.