Personal Health Behavior Self-Assessment Wheel¶
Specification¶
The full specification below is extracted from Chapter 12: Advocacy, Goal Setting, and Health Messaging.
Type: infographic
**sim-id:** personal-health-behavior-self-assessment-wheel<br/>
**Library:** p5.js<br/>
**Status:** Specified
Bloom Taxonomy: Analyze (L4)
Bloom Taxonomy Verb: examine, assess, identify
Learning objective: Students examine their own current habits across six health areas and identify realistic goal-focus areas by rating themselves on a private, non-graded self-assessment wheel.
Layout: A six-spoke wheel, one spoke per area (nutrition, sleep, physical activity, mental/emotional health, relationships, substance-related pressure), each spoke a slider from 1 (needs attention) to 5 (going well).
Interactive controls: Learner privately drags each spoke's slider to reflect their own honest current state; wheel visually fills in to show a personal "shape" (uneven wheel highlights the lowest-rated areas); clicking the lowest-scoring spoke opens a reflection prompt asking what a realistic small step in that area could look like; "Save My Reflection" stores responses locally in the browser only (not submitted or graded).
Default parameters: All spokes start at 3 (neutral); no data is transmitted or shared — this is a private reflection tool.
Instructional Rationale: An Analyze-level self-assessment objective benefits from a visual "shape" that makes uneven areas obvious at a glance, prompting honest identification of a goal-focus area rather than a vague overall judgment.
Implementation notes: p5.js. Explicitly labeled as private/ungraded in the UI itself. Responsive canvas that resizes the wheel to fit narrow screens.