Evaluations

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School-based Evaluation

Do children adopt healthier nutrition practices because of the Nutrition Education Program (NEP) school-based education? One way to help answer this question is to evaluate your educational efforts. For NEP education, evaluations are currently available for 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade students participating in a series nutrition program.

There are a few rules to follow when discussing and conducting evaluations for NEP.

• Do not use the word “test” as you talk to school employees about the evaluations or when conducting evaluations or assessments. Be positive about the evaluations to the children as well as to the teachers.

• When students are completing the written evaluation, do not give them the correct answers. As an educator, your goal is to see improvement in scores on the post-assessment when compared to the pre-assessment. In addition, make sure that school teachers do not tell students the correct response during the assessment.

• It is your decision whether you want to share your evaluation results with school officials. Your results should help school officials support the federally-mandated school wellness initiative.

Components and Scheduling of School-based Evaluations

There are three components of school-based evaluations. They consist of: (1) “What’s for Lunch” poster, (2) one of the written evaluations [Yummy Face, Fruity Friends or Professor Green Bean] and (3) “All about Students.” The “What for Lunch” poster and the written evaluation are completed in a pre and post fashion. “What’s for Lunch,” which takes five days to complete, should to be completed before the written evaluation and before any nutrition education is conducted. At the post-assessment, the “What’s for Lunch” poster is the last item to be completed. Students will again record food items eaten over a 5-day period on the poster. This last recording is done after the written evaluation and after the education. Data for “All about Students” are obtained from the classroom teacher after the post-assessment is completed.

Behavior Change: Poster Assessment

What's for Lunch?

What's for Lunch? (Example)

Knowledge Change: Written Evaluations

Yummy Face, 2nd grade evaluation

Fruity Friends, 3rd grade evaluation

Professor Green Bean, 4th grade evaluation

Demographic Data of Students in Classroom

“All about Students,” (NEP-017) records classroom students’ demographic information. This form should be completed at the end of an evaluated series of classes and is reported on the Nutrition Evaluation Spreadsheet (NEP-009).

All About Students

Nutrition Evaluation Spreadsheet

All About Students

Written Evaluations (Yummy Face, Fruity Friends and Professor Green Bean)

What's for Lunch? Poster