Faculty - EFNEP Evaluation Plans 2014 SOARS Plan of Work
EFNEP Faculty – Evaluation Plans
Copy and paste the statements provided below into your SOARS Evaluation Plan Section.
Statement of the evaluation or research question and the outcomes/indicators being
evaluated.
Do adults who participate in an EFNEP class series increase their ability to select and buy
food that meets the nutritional needs of their family? Gain new skills food production, preparation,
storage, safety and sanitation? Learn to better manage their food budgets and related resources
from federal, state, and local food assistance agencies and organizations? Learn about related
topics such as physical activity and health?
Do adults who participate in an EFNEP class series demonstrate improved behaviors with
respect to diet quality and physical activity, food resource management, food safety, and food
security practices.
Does repeated exposure to EFNEP nutrition messages and relationships with families
affect behavior changes with youth and adult audience participants?
Do youth who participate in an EFNEP class series:
Improve their abilities to choose foods according to Federal Dietary Recommendations or
gain knowledge.
Use safe food handling practices more often or gain knowledge.
Improve their physical activity practices or gain knowledge.
Improve their ability to prepare simple, nutritious, affordable, food or gain
knowledge.
Acquire skills to be food secure or gain knowledge.
The Adult EFNEP Checklist is administered pre/post
What is your name? What is the Date? Is this Lesson number 1 or 8?
These questions are about the ways you plan and fix food.
Think about how you usually do them.
1. I plan meals…
2. I compare prices…
3. I run out of food before the end of the month…
4. I shop with a list…
5. Meat and dairy foods – I let them sit out for more than 2 hours…
6. I thaw frozen foods at room temperature…
7. I choose health food for my family…
8. I make food without adding salt…
9. I use this food label (shows a picture)…
10. My child eats food within 2 hours of waking up…
11. My child drinks soda ___ times a day.
12. My child drinks sports or sugared drinks ___ times a day.
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13. My child eats fast food ___ times a week.
14. My child watches TV ___ hours a day.
15. My child plays video or computer games ___ hours a day.
16. Last question is qualitative - What changes have you made? Please share.
17. Highest grade?
18. Monthly family income?
The Adult EFNEP Food Tracker is administered pre/post.
Participants are verbally led through the process of completing the Food Tracker.
Participants are asked: What I ate yesterday….
See instrument description.
Parent/Guardian Survey:
Did the child talk with primary adult caregiver about healthy eating?
Did the child talk with primary adult caregiver about tasting recipes in class?
Did the adult make any changes in the foods their family eats as a result of the child talking
about healthy eating?
Did the adult make any of the recipes that their child brought home?
Did the adult have to buy new types of foods to make any of the take-home recipes?
Indicators-Questions:
1. Does your child talk about what he or she has learned about healthy eating in
class? (Check one) If yes, have you made any changes in foods your family eats as
a result?
2. Does your child talk about tasting recipes in class?
3. Did you receive the recipes sent home with your child?
4. Has your child asked you to make any of the recipes at home?
5. Are you this child’s “Parent”, “Grandparent”, “Foster parent”, or “Other (please
describe)”.
6. Are you? “Female”, “Male”.
7. What language(s) do you speak at home? “English”, “Spanish”, or “Other” with a
blank line to fill in.
8. Have you made any of these recipes at home?
9. If you have prepared any of the recipes in question 8, did you have to buy foods that
were different from what you usually buy?
10. Is there anything you’d like us to know about your child’s participation in the nutrition
lessons? If yes, please describe below. If more space is needed, please use
another sheet of paper.
Youth instruments - series of sessions:
EFNEP Youth surveys are tailored to multiple indicators with multiple responses.
EFNEP K-2 Nutrition Education Survey
Survey is administered pre-post.
What is your student ID number? What is the Date? Is this a ___Pre or a ___ Post?
Time frame is the present. Survey has a total of 10 Questions.
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1. Circle the healthy snacks.
2. Circle when you should wash your hands before eating.
3. Circle the pictures that show physical activities.
4. Circle the foods from the vegetable group.
5. Circle the foods from the fruit group.
6. Circle the foods from the grains group.
7. Circle the foods from the dairy group.
8. Circle the foods from the protein foods group.
9. At your home, do you have vegetables to eat?
10. At your home, do you have fruits to ear?
EFNEP 3-5 Nutrition Education Survey
What is your student’s Code number? What is the Date? Is this a ___Pre or a ___ Post?
Survey has a total of 14 Questions.
Circle the answer that best applies to you:
1. I eat vegetables…
2. I eat fruit…
3. I choose healthy snacks…
4. I eat breakfast…
5. I do physical activities …
6. Being active is fun.
7. Being active is good for me
8. A pizza was left out of the refrigerator all night. What should you do?
9. A chicken and rice dish has been in the refrigerator for over a week. What should
you do?
10. I wash my hands before making something to eat.
11. Will you ask your family to buy your favorite fruit or vegetable?
12. Will you ask your family to buy non-fat or 1% milk instead of regular whole milk?
13. Will you ask your family to have fruits in a place like the refrigerator or a bowl on the
table where you can reach them?
14. Will you ask your family to have cut-up vegetables in the refrigerator, where you can
reach them?
Behavior Checklist for 6th-8th Grades
What is your student’s Code number? What is the Date? Is this a ___Pre or a ___ Post?
The first 4 questions ask about food you ate or drank. Circle the answer that best
describes you.
1. Yesterday, how many times did you eat vegetables, not counting French fries?
Include cooked vegetables, canned vegetables and salads. If you ate 2 different
vegetables in a meal or a snack, count them as 2 times.
2. Yesterday, how many times did you eat fruit, not counting juice? Include fresh,
frozen, canned, and dried fruits. If you ate 2 different fruits in a meal or a snack,
count them as 2 times.
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3. Yesterday, how many times did you drink nonfat or 1% low-fat milk? Include low-fat
chocolate or flavored milk, and low-fat milk on cereal.
4. Yesterday, how many times did you drink sweetened drinks like soda, fruit-flavored
drinks, sports drinks, energy drinks and vitamin water? Do not include 100% fruit
juice.
5. When you eat grain products, how often do you eat whole grains, like brown rice instead
of white rice, whole grain bread instead of white bread and whole grain cereals?
6. When you eat out at a restaurant or fast food place, how often do you make healthy
choices when deciding what to eat?
7. During the past 7 days, how many days were you physically active for at least 1 hour?
8. During the past 7 days, how often were you so active that your heart beat fast and
you breathed hard most of the time?
9. How many hours a day do you spend watching TV or movies, playing electronic
games or using a computer for something that is not school work?
10. How often do you wash your hands before eating? Think about eating at school or
at home.
11. How often do you wash vegetables and fruits before eating them?
12. When you take foods out of the refrigerator, how often do you put them back within
2 hours?
13. How confident are you in using measuring cups and measuring spoons?
14. How confident are you in following directions in a recipe?
Behavior Checklist for 9th-12th Grades
What is your Student Code Number? What is the Date? Is this a ___Pre or a ___ Post?
The first 4 questions ask about food you ate or drank. Circle the answer that best
describes you.
1. Yesterday, how many times did you eat vegetables, not counting French fries?
Include cooked vegetables, canned vegetables and salads. If you ate 2 or more
different vegetables in a meal or snack, count each of them in your total number of
times.
2. Yesterday, how many times did you eat fruit, not counting juice? Include fresh,
frozen, canned and dried fruits. If you ate 2 or more different fruits in a meal or
snack, count each of them in your total number of times.
3. Yesterday, how many times did you drink nonfat or 1% low-fat milk? Include low-fat
chocolate or flavored milk, and low-fat milk on cereal.
4. Yesterday, how many times did you drink sweetened drinks like soda, fruit-flavored
drinks, sports drinks, energy drinks and vitamin water? Do not include 100% fruit
juice.
The next 2 questions ask about how often you choose certain foods. Circle the answer
that best describes you.
5. When you eat grain products, how often do you eat whole grains, like brown rice
instead of white rice, whole grain bread instead of white bread, and whole grain
cereals?
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6. When you eat out at a restaurant or fast food place, how often do you make healthy
choices when deciding what to eat?
The next 3 questions are about physical activity. Circle the answer that best describes you.
7. During the past 7 days, how many days were you physically active for at least 1 hour?
8. During the past 7 days, how often were you so active that your heart beat fast and
you breathed hard most of the time?
9. How many hours a day do you spend watching TV or movies, playing electronic
games, or using a computer for something that is not school work?
The next 5 questions ask about how you handle food. Circle the answer that best describes you.
10. How often do you wash your hands before preparing something to eat? Think
about preparing snacks or meals.
11. How often do you wash vegetables and fruits before eating them?
12. When you take foods out of the refrigerator, how often do you put them back within
2 hours?
13. How often do you check the expiration date before eating or drinking foods?
14. In the last month, if your family did not have enough food, how often did you help by
going to a food pantry or finding other free or low-cost food resources?
Description of the planned evaluation design/protocol.
Adult Audiences:
Direct Education – Series of sessions
Process evaluation
Data collected: number of adults attending, names, addresses, ages, gender, racial/ethnic
characteristics, and participation in public assistance programs.
Outcome evaluation
Adults participating in a series of EFNEP sessions will complete pre/post written Food
Trackers and Checklists.
Survey responses are entered into EFNEP WebNEERS by staff in the regional units.
Summary data analysis is available in WebNEERS. A function for downloading the raw
data from WebNEERS is available to use for other types of analysis.
EFNEP Parent/Guardian Survey - Assessment Procedure:
1st and 2nd grade school children learn about healthy food choices. They try new foods.
To engage adult primary caregivers, children bring home recipes of food they prepare or
taste in EFNEP classes. To assess the impact of take-home recipes, adult primary
caregivers are asked to complete a 10-question take-home survey in English or Spanish. 5
of the questions measure outcome behaviors that occur as a result of participating in the
activity.
Youth Audiences:
Direct Education – Series of sessions
Process evaluation
Data collected: number of youth attending, grades, gender, and racial/ethnic
characteristics
Outcome evaluation
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Youth participating in a series of classes will complete pre/post written surveys.
Survey responses are entered into EFNEP WebNEERS by staff in the regional units.
Summary data analysis is available in WebNEERS. A function for downloading the raw
data from WebNEERS is available to use for other types of analysis.
Description of the instruments to be used.
The Adult EFNEP Checklist is administered pre/post.
Questions 1-9
“These questions are about the ways you plan and fix food”.
“Think about how you usually do them”. “Mark 1 answer for each question”.
Response categories are “No”, “Sometimes”, “Often”, “Very Often”, and “almost
always”.
Questions 10-15
“…are about your child”. “If you have more than one child, think about your
youngest child who is 2 years or older”.
Question 10 responses are: “No”, “Sometimes”, “Often”, “Very Often”, and “almost
always”.
Questions 11-12 responses are: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or more times a day.
Question 13 responses are: 0, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, or 7 times a week.
Questions 14-15 responses are: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or more hours a day.
Last question is qualitative - What changes have you made? Please share ___.
Highest grade responses are: Grade ___, GED, Some college, 2 year college, or 4 year
college.
Monthly family income $ ____
The Adult EFNEP Food Tracker is administered pre/post
What is your name? What is the Date? Is this Lesson number 1-2 or 7-8?
Participants are verbally led through the process of completing the Food Tracker.
Participants are asked: What I ate yesterday….
Column 1 – Foods and Drinks, list on separate lines.
Column 2 – Meal or Snack, choose one for each food or drink listed: Breakfast, Lunch,
Dinner, or Snack. Circle one.
Column 3 – How much? Indicate a measurement for each food or drink listed. Sample
measurements are listed.
Column 4 – Details with samples listed. How prepared: baked, broiled, pan fried…?
Check, I reread my list of foods.
Check, I included all meals and snacks.
Check, Physical activity.
Check, Pregnant?
Check, Nursing?
Indicate, Monthly food costs $_____.
Parent/Guardian Survey – has a total of 10 Questions with various responses.
Parents are asked to complete a written survey following their child’s participation in a
series of classroom lessons.
Units will tailor the survey with names of recipes used in youth classroom sessions.
Question 1 responses are 2 part: “Yes”, “No”, or “Not Sure”.
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Question 2 responses are: “Has not talked about tasting recipes”, “Has talked about recipes in
some detail”, “Has talked about recipes in great detail”.
Question 3 responses are: “Yes” – go to question 4, “No” – go to question 5, and “Not sure” –
go to question 5.
Question 4 responses are: “Yes” or “No”
Question 5 responses are: “Parent”, “Grandparent”, “Foster parent”, or “Other (please describe)”.
Question 6 responses are: “Female”, “Male”.
Question 7 responses are: “English”, “Spanish”, or “Other” with a blank line to fill in.
Question 8 Unit fills in recipes prepared in class sessions. Responses are: “Yes” or “No” for
each recipe listed.
Question 9 responses are: “Yes”, “What foods were they?”, or “No”.
Question 10 responses are qualitative with an open text box.
EFNEP K-2 Nutrition Education Survey is administered pre/post.
What is your student ID number? What is the Date? Is this a ___Pre or a ___ Post?
Survey has a total of 10 Questions with various responses.
Question 1 responses are: pictures of an apple, cake, carrots, bananas, grapes, and
French fries, all with descriptive words.
Question 2 responses are: pictures of combing hair, tying shoelace, blowing nose, and
petting a dog.
Question 3 responses are: pictures of girl on computer, boy riding a bike, girl swinging,
child TV watching, and boy walking.
Question 4 responses are: pictures of broccoli, turkey, cake, carrots, pretzel, and corn, all
with descriptive words.
Question 5 responses are: pictures of bread, apple, milk, strawberries, French fries,
bananas, all with descriptive words.
Question 6 responses are: pictures of cereal, spaghetti, pumpkin, bananas, candy, bread,
all with descriptive words.
Question 7 responses are: pictures of French fries, pumpkin, candy, ice cream, cheese,
and milk, all with descriptive words.
Question 8 responses are: pictures of grapes, turkey, corn, and egg, all with descriptive words.
Question 9-10 responses are: pictures of cartoon faces with the descriptive words
underneath, Never, Almost Never, Sometimes, Almost Always, and Always.
EFNEP 3-5 Nutrition Education Survey is administered pre/post.
What is your student’s Code number? What is the Date? Is this a ___Pre or a ___ Post?
Survey has a total of 14 Questions with various responses.
Questions 1-5 responses are: “Never or almost never”, “Some days”, “Most days”, or
“Everyday”.
Questions 6-7 responses are: “I do not agree”, “I’m not sure”, or “I agree”.
Question 8 responses are: “Eat the pizza”, “Smell the pizza and then decide if it’s okay to
eat”, “Put the pizza in the refrigerator”, or “Don’t eat the pizza”.
Question 9 responses are: “Eat the chicken and rice dish”, “Smell the chicken and rice dish
and then decide if it’s okay to eat”, “Put the chicken and rice dish back in the refrigerator”,
or “Don’t eat the chicken and rice dish”.
Question 10 responses are: “Almost never”, “Sometimes”, “Most of the time”, or “Always”.
Questions 11-14 responses are: “No”, “Maybe, or “Yes”.
EFNEP Behavior Checklist for 6th-8th Grades is administered pre/post.
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What is your student’s Code number? What is the Date? Is this a ___Pre or a ___ Post?
Survey has a total of 14 Questions with various responses.
Questions 1-3 responses are: None, 1 time, 2 times, 3 times, or 4+ times.
Question 4 responses are: None, 1 time, 2 times, or 3 times.
Questions 5-6 responses are: Never, Once in a while, Sometimes, Most of the time, or Always.
Question 7 responses are: 0 days, 1 day, 2 days, 3 days, 4 days, 5 days, 6 days, or 7 days.
Question 8 responses are: Never, 1 time last week, 2 times last week, 3 times last week, or
4 or more times last week.
Question 9 responses are: 1 hour or less, 2 hours, 3 hours, 4 hours, or 5 or more hours.
Questions 10-12 responses are: Never, Once in a while, Sometimes, Most of the time, or Always.
Questions 13-14 responses are: Not confident, Confident, Somewhat confident, or totally
confident.
EFNEP Behavior Checklist for 9th-12th Grades is administered pre/post.
What is your Student Code Number? What is the Date? Is this a ___Pre or a ___ Post?
Survey has a total of 14 Questions with various responses.
Questions 1-3 responses are: None, 1 time, 2 times, 3 times, or 4+ times.
Question 4 responses are: None, 1 time, 2 times, or 3 times.
Questions 5-6 responses are: Never, Once in a while, Sometimes, Most of the time, or
Always.
Question 7 responses are: 0 days, 1 day, 2 days, 3 days, 4 days, 5 days, 6 days, or 7 days.
Question 8 responses are: Never, 1 time last week, 2 times last week, 3 times last week, or
4 or more times last week.
Question 9 responses are: 1 hour or less, 2 hours, 3 hours, 4 hours, or 5 or more hours.
Questions 10-13 responses are: Never, Once in a while, Sometimes, Most of the time, or
Always.
Question 14 responses are: Does not apply, Never, 1 time, 2 times, 3 times, or 4 or more times.
Description of the participants/subjects.
EFNEP participants are:
Adults – Parents and caregivers of youth less than 19 years of age
Youth - K-2nd grades
Youth – 3rd-5th grades
Youth - 6th-8th grades
Youth - 9th-12th grades
Description of the data analysis procedures.
Responses from Adult EFNEP Checklist are entered into the WebNEERS5 database at
the Region (County) level.
WebNEERS produces an Adult Checklist Summary Report showing an array of results for
indicators measured. Raw data can be downloaded for additional analysis. Region
reports are gathered into a statewide report sent to the national level. Reports are
available at Region and Statewide levels which can be used with stakeholders.
Responses from Adult EFNEP Food Tracker are entered into the WebNEERS database.
Diet Summary Reports are generated including an array of results for indicators measured.
Region reports are gathered into a statewide report sent to the national level. Reports are
available at Region and Statewide levels which can be used with stakeholders.
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EFNEP Parent/Guardian Survey on use of classroom recipes sent home with children.
Surveys are sent to campus for data entry and analysis.
Responses from EFNEP K-2 Nutrition Education Survey, 3-5 Nutrition Education
Survey, Behavior Checklist for 6th-8th Grades, and the Behavior Checklist for 9th12th Grades are entered into the WebNEERS database at the Region (County) level.
WebNEERS produces a Youth Checklist Summary Report showing an array of results for
indicators measured. Region reports are gathered into a statewide report sent to the
national level. Reports are available at Region and Statewide levels which can be used
with stakeholders.
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