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ERIC Number: EJ1163137
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Jan
Pages: 8
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-4391
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Exploring the Associations among Nutrition, Science, and Mathematics Knowledge for an Integrative, Food-Based Curriculum
Stage, Virginia C.; Kolasa, Kathryn M.; Díaz, Sebastián R.; Duffrin, Melani W.
Journal of School Health, v88 n1 p15-22 Jan 2018
Background: Explore associations between nutrition, science, and mathematics knowledge to provide evidence that integrating food/nutrition education in the fourth-grade curriculum may support gains in academic knowledge. Methods: Secondary analysis of a quasi-experimental study. Sample included 438 students in 34 fourth-grade classrooms across North Carolina and Ohio; mean age 10 years old; gender (I = 53.2% female; C = 51.6% female). Dependent variable = post-test-nutrition knowledge; independent variables = baseline-nutrition knowledge, and post-test science and mathematics knowledge. Analyses included descriptive statistics and multiple linear regression. Results: The hypothesized model predicted post-nutrition knowledge (F(437) = 149.4, p < 0.001; Adjusted R = 0.51). All independent variables were significant predictors with positive association. Conclusions: Science and mathematics knowledge were predictive of nutrition knowledge indicating use of an integrative science and mathematics curriculum to improve academic knowledge may also simultaneously improve nutrition knowledge among fourth-grade students. Teachers can benefit from integration by meeting multiple academic standards, efficiently using limited classroom time, and increasing nutrition education provided in the classroom.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Grade 4
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (DHHS)
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Identifiers - Location: North Carolina; Ohio
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