Proven Success (Evaluations)
FOODPLAY is an evidence-based program with
proven results!
FOODPLAY is an evidence-based
program with proven results demonstrating outstanding improvements
in student's knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding nutrition
and health issues.
You can use our professionally designed pre- and
post-evaluation instrument to assess your students and demonstrate
the dramatic impact of the FOODPLAY intervention.
We can provide
everything needed to fulfill nutrition and health grant mandates.
Independent Evaluation Summary
A major USDA-sponsored evaluation was conducted with the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Departments
of Education, and evaluated by Dr. Catherine
English, Food and Nutrition Department, University of Rhode Island.
Results Summary: The
“FOODPLAY” Program intervention showed dramatic results
improving the nutrition knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of 4th
graders throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Evaluation Method: Pre and post-test evaluations
were administered to 1200 fourth graders throughout Massachusetts
and Rhode Island prior to and one week following the FOODPLAY intervention.
Evaluation Results
One week following the FOODPLAY Program...
Improved Changes in Student Behavior
(Self-Reported):
80% reported “...eating more healthfully.”
68% reported “...eating breakfast more often.”
75% reported “...eating more fruits and vegetables.”
70% reported “...eating fewer sweets and drinking less soda.”
68% reported “...eating less fatty food like chips and greasy
fast foods”
66% reported “...reading ingredient labels more often.”
Increased Student Knowledge:
225% overall increase in student knowledge
of the recommended daily amount of fruits and
vegetables to consume!
90% of students correctly identified
the main ingredient of a food label.
(Up from 53%)
85% correctly reported that a can of cola has ten teaspoons of sugar.
(Up from 21%)
63% were able to put all food groups in their correct
place on the food pyramid.
(Up from 37%)
75% correctly knew that Grains was the group from which to eat the
most.
(Up from 18%)
School Faculty Response:
80%
of Teachers and Principals gave FOODPLAY the highest rating
of “Excellent!”
Parent Involvement:
Over 62% of students
reported telling their parents about what they learned from
FOODPLAY when they got home from school.
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