Evaluate!
Michigan Team Nutrition has developed the tools listed below to help you evaluate the success of your Team Nutrition programs. Download and modify to fit your event today!
General tips for using these tools are provided by clicking here.
Adults Please Tell Us… — These surveys are designed to be enlarged (at the copy store) to poster size. Place the poster evaluations at the exits and encourage people (adults and kids) to make an "X" or put a sticker in the right box. Just count the "Xs" or stickers to tally your results. You will need to type or write in the activities you offered under "How did you like…"
End-of-Year Checklist — If you didn't conduct a "pretest" with students, this evaluation can be used at the end of the year to capture self-reported behavior changes. For young students (non-readers), you can enlarge it to poster size, read the statements to students and give them six stickers to indicate their responses.
Fruit and Veggie Log — This tool prompts students, 3rd grade and higher, to think back through meals and snacks they ate the day before and document how many fruits/and veggies they ate for each meal or snack. It also assesses ways they are trying to increase fruit/veggie intake and barriers to doing so.
Fruit/Veggie Checklist — This tool can be used with older students or adults and features a Stage-of -Change response scale to assess "where they are at" related to trying, liking, and eating various fruits and veggies. It is a good activity to generate discussion about the variety of foods in these two food groups.
Healthy A La Carte — This tool will help you collect information needed to improve your a la carte options by offering healthy foods that students like.
Healthy Changes - More Fruit and Veggies! — This activity is actually a behavior change plan in which the student selects one way to increase fruit/veggie intake, thinks about barriers to success and ways to overcome them, and tracks their success for four days.
Healthy Eating - Try it This Week! — This tool is designed to be sent home with students to involve families in a few changes to increase fruit and vegetable intake and healthier snacks as well as to encourage trying new foods within each of the food groups.
Healthy Habits Checklist — This simple tool assesses frequency of important health behaviors of children. Findings also will tell you which they are trying to do more often as well as perceived difficulty. A few questions are included about the importance of physical activity and healthy eating and children’s opinions about how healthy their food choices are and how active they are.
Kids Please Tell Us…— This tool can be used with older students or adults and features a Stage-of -Change response scale to assess "where they are at" related to trying, liking, and eating various fruits and veggies. It is a good activity to generate discussion about the variety of foods in these two food groups.
Parent Breakfast Survey — This evaluation collects input from parents about children's breakfast consumption and their suggestions for improving school breakfast.
Parents Are You Concerned About Any of These? — This short survey is designed to be used with parents when they are at school for conferences, an open house or if they participate in Walk-to-School Day, walking club or other school-based events. It will help you tailor nutrition education and activities toward areas of concern to parents.
The Student Health Survey (SHS) is an online survey designed for Michigan schools to determine the nutrition and physical activity knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors of their students. It was created to assist middle and high schools in creating a healthier school environment.
Taste and Evaluate! — Use this tool to collect feedback from students about foods or drinks you are thinking of adding to school meals. Just write or type the foods onto the blank survey and collect important information to involve students in school menu planning.
Taste Testing Survey! — This survey allows you to assess whether students like various foods and if they would like them added to school meals or a la carte. You need to type or write the foods they will taste on the survey and cut the pages in half after you copy them.
What Did You Do? Like? Learn? — This simple evaluation collects feedback about an event or activity such as a Health Fair. Just type in activities that were offered and use this tool to find out what people participated in, what they liked and learned, and suggestions for improvement.
