Psychosocial Measures Used to Assess the Effectiveness of School-Based Nutrition Education Programs

Speaker:

Yenory Hernández-Garbanzo, PhD , Texas A&M University

Learning Objectives:

Explain the importance of program evaluation and measurement of school-based nutrition education programs.

Describe how evaluation instruments for school-based nutrition education programs are developed and tested to ensure validity and reliability.

Compare the psychometric properties of evaluation instruments that measure mediators of behaviors in school-aged children.

List ways in which nutrition education programs can improve their outcome evaluation processes, including the selection of measures and data collection tools.