Health Literacy and Decision Making
How to find, judge and act on health information, including when the decision is uncomfortable.
- Health literacy skills
- Evaluating health information and advertising
- Decision-making models
NSW PDHPE Stage 4 (Year 8) - health literacy and decision making; fitness and training; relationships, identity and safety - expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did PDHPE Year 8” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.
How to find, judge and act on health information, including when the decision is uncomfortable.
How fitness is built, tested and adapted, and why the principles of training matter more than effort.
Identity, consent, respect and safety in face-to-face and online relationships.
A PDHPE Year 8 paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.
| Command word | Question type | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| analyse | Short answer | 3–5 |
| describe | Short answer | 2–3 |
| evaluate | Extended response | 4–6 |
| explain | Short answer | 3–4 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| predict | Multiple choice | 1 |
Year 8 Assessment Task Shape — 50 marks, 75 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.
Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.