Degree Name

MS (Master of Science)

Program

Clinical Nutrition

Date of Award

8-2005

Committee Chair or Co-Chairs

Jamie B. Kridler

Committee Members

Anna Roberts, Elizabeth F. Lowe, Joy Wachs

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to determine if nutrition knowledge would increase, indicated by improvements in pretest and posttest scores, following implementation of a nutrition lesson plan. The subjects included 532 fourth through eighth grade students from Johnson County, a rural county in northeast Tennessee. The lesson plans and pretests and posttests were developed to be appropriate for each grade level, with increased complexity in higher grades. The principal investigator graded the pretests and posttests and analyzed the data using SPSS. The results showed a significant improvement from pretests to posttests for all grades given a p-value of <0.05.

Document Type

Thesis - unrestricted

Copyright

Copyright by the authors.

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