Category: Publications
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New York City fourth graders who receive a climate change curriculum with hydroponic gardening have higher science achievement scores
Check out the full publication here! We compared 2014–15 New York State Science Assessment scores of fourth grade students who received the New York Sun Works (NYSW) Program (n = 638) with two comparison groups: students who received NYSW the following year (n = 993) and students attending matched schools (n = 1490). We first applied a multi-level regression model to…
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Food, Health, & Choices: Curriculum and Wellness Interventions to Decrease Childhood Obesity in Fifth-Graders
Read the full paper on Science Direct! |Abstract| Objective: To evaluate Food, Health, & Choices, two 10-month interventions. Design: Cluster-randomized, controlled study with 4 groups: curriculum, wellness, curriculum plus wellness, and control. Setting: Twenty elementary schools (5/group) in New York City. Participants: Fifth-grade students (n = 1,159). At baseline, 44.6% were at the ≥85th body mass index (BMI) percentile for…
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A systematic review and content analysis of classroom teacher professional development in nutrition education programs
Check out Oxford Academic for the full paper! Many nutrition programs include classroom-based education. Schoolteachers are relied upon to deliver these programs despite gaps in nutrition education motivation, knowledge, and self-efficacy. Teacher professional development (PD) for these nutrition education programs has been identified as a strategy for improving program effectiveness, yet many interventions do not…