Impact of Nutrition Education on Student Learning

A goal of schools is to provide students with practical nutritional information that will foster healthy lifelong behaviors. Unfortunately, students at one school were found to have difficulty grasping basic nutritional information and practical health-related skills. There remains an important gap...

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Main Author: Singura, Lydia
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Language:en
Published: ScholarWorks 2011
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spelling ndltd-waldenu.edu-oai-scholarworks.waldenu.edu-dissertations-20912019-10-30T01:06:06Z Impact of Nutrition Education on Student Learning Singura, Lydia A goal of schools is to provide students with practical nutritional information that will foster healthy lifelong behaviors. Unfortunately, students at one school were found to have difficulty grasping basic nutritional information and practical health-related skills. There remains an important gap in current literature regarding strategies to improve students' understanding of nutrition education material. The purpose of this study was to investigate the benefits of a 4-week nutrition intervention unit in the Foods I classes consisting of 82 male and female students in Grades 9-12. Constructivist teaching methods were implemented to provide students with both information and valuable skills, which might positively impact student health and student learning. A pre-experimental quantitative design was used for this study. The repeated-measures t test was used to compute differences in pre- and post-tests scores on the nutrition test, which indicated a 6.207 mean increase in student posttest scores. The 82 students also completed a Likert style survey, which indicated both a positive student result in perceiving a better understanding of nutrition knowledge, and a positive change in dietary choices due to constructivist teaching strategies used in the intervention. These results revealed the benefits of the nutrition intervention unit by the significant increase in students' nutrition knowledge and students' implementation of that knowledge in daily living. The results make an important contribution to the existing literature and can enhance social change initiatives through increasing students' knowledge of nutrition, providing them with life-based skills, and enhancing their quality of life. 2011-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1092 https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2091&context=dissertations Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies en ScholarWorks public health education and promotion;home economics;nutrition;human and clinical nutrition Home Economics Human and Clinical Nutrition Nutrition Public Health Education and Promotion
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topic public health education and promotion;home economics;nutrition;human and clinical nutrition
Home Economics
Human and Clinical Nutrition
Nutrition
Public Health Education and Promotion
spellingShingle public health education and promotion;home economics;nutrition;human and clinical nutrition
Home Economics
Human and Clinical Nutrition
Nutrition
Public Health Education and Promotion
Singura, Lydia
Impact of Nutrition Education on Student Learning
description A goal of schools is to provide students with practical nutritional information that will foster healthy lifelong behaviors. Unfortunately, students at one school were found to have difficulty grasping basic nutritional information and practical health-related skills. There remains an important gap in current literature regarding strategies to improve students' understanding of nutrition education material. The purpose of this study was to investigate the benefits of a 4-week nutrition intervention unit in the Foods I classes consisting of 82 male and female students in Grades 9-12. Constructivist teaching methods were implemented to provide students with both information and valuable skills, which might positively impact student health and student learning. A pre-experimental quantitative design was used for this study. The repeated-measures t test was used to compute differences in pre- and post-tests scores on the nutrition test, which indicated a 6.207 mean increase in student posttest scores. The 82 students also completed a Likert style survey, which indicated both a positive student result in perceiving a better understanding of nutrition knowledge, and a positive change in dietary choices due to constructivist teaching strategies used in the intervention. These results revealed the benefits of the nutrition intervention unit by the significant increase in students' nutrition knowledge and students' implementation of that knowledge in daily living. The results make an important contribution to the existing literature and can enhance social change initiatives through increasing students' knowledge of nutrition, providing them with life-based skills, and enhancing their quality of life.
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