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Nutrition Knowledge Assessment of Preschool Children

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dc.contributor.authorPlum, Jane Meacham Jr.en
dc.contributor.committeechairHertzler, Ann A.en
dc.contributor.committeememberBrochetti, Deniseen
dc.contributor.committeememberStewart, Daisy L.en
dc.contributor.departmentHuman Nutrition, Foods, and Exerciseen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:46:39Zen
dc.date.adate1997-11-26en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:46:39Zen
dc.date.issued1997-06-02en
dc.date.rdate1998-11-26en
dc.date.sdate1997-06-02en
dc.description.abstractA game with food and nutrition related pictures was developed to provide an opportunity for a classroom teacher to interview preschool children for assessment of nutrition knowledge concepts. Specifically, knowledge of vegetable concepts which included identification of the food, the food group, the source, preparation methods and use by the body was measured. The assessment was administered to five groups of children (ages two and one-half to five years) in preschools and child care centers in Reston, VA by high school early childhood education students. The assessment was designed to meet current criteria that assessment be teacher administered, provide useful information to the teacher, reflect the typical activities of children in the classroom and be one of a variety of assessments used. The assessment was successfully administered by the high school students working as teacher aides. The assessment gave teachers useful information about each class and individual children which could be used in curriculum planning. The assessment fit into the usual classroom activities, in this case, a games and manipulatives learning center. The assessment provided more in-depth information about children's knowledge than multiple choice tests used in previous research on nutrition knowledge, because the teachers recorded children's responses to open-ended questions. Children's responses indicated elementary understanding of food and nutrition concepts suggesting that classroom teachers need to make greater use of the variety of nutrition education materials available.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-101397-204434en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-101397-204434/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/35377en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartetd.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectNutrition educationen
dc.subjectPreschoolen
dc.subjectAssessmenten
dc.titleNutrition Knowledge Assessment of Preschool Childrenen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineHuman Nutrition, Foods, and Exerciseen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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