Methodology To Evaluate the Outcomes of the Team Nutrition Initiative in Schools
By Mary Murimi, Jan Colvin, Kim Liner,
Jennifer Guin. ERS project representative: Joanne Guthrie
Contractor and Cooperator Report No. (CCR-20) 101 pp,
June 2006
This project develops a data collection methodology to evaluate outcomes of Team Nutrition, a voluntary USDA school-based initiative to promote nutrition education, healthy eating, and physical activity. The project uses information technology to collect high-quality data while decreasing respondent and investigator burden and lowering costs of collecting and analyzing evaluation data. Seven data collection instruments were developed: Five collect information from school personnel, one collects information from students, and the seventh is an on-site observation of the school environment. The instruments are being pilot-tested in one State, but because Team Nutrition is a national initiative, the methodology could be useful to other States.
Keywords: National School Lunch Program, Team Nutrition, Child Nutrition Programs, food assistance programs, evaluation, nutrition education, Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program, FANRP, ERS, USDA
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Updated date: June 23, 2006
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