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Adapting An Elementary School Nutrition Context Assessment For High School Settings And Students, Deborah H. John, Beret Halverson, Tia H. Ho
Adapting An Elementary School Nutrition Context Assessment For High School Settings And Students, Deborah H. John, Beret Halverson, Tia H. Ho
Journal of Human Sciences and Extension
The school nutrition context is comprised of supportive environmental features, programs, policies, and social relationships that shape students’ healthy dietary choices and patterns. When engaging students as change agents, advocates, and partners in making healthy nutrition choices easier, environmental assessment tools developed for adults may be too complex or inappropriately tailored for youth. Adolescents need practical, user-tailored tools that reliably measure the food and beverage environments they encounter in school to inform youth-led changes to the school nutrition context. To meet this need, an evidence-based school environmental assessment was adapted for use in high schools by students as evaluators. Cooperative …
The Effects Of Relationship Education On Adolescent Traditional Gender Role Attitudes And Dating Violence Acceptance, Angela Whittaker, Francesca Adler-Baeder, Chelsea Garneau
The Effects Of Relationship Education On Adolescent Traditional Gender Role Attitudes And Dating Violence Acceptance, Angela Whittaker, Francesca Adler-Baeder, Chelsea Garneau
Journal of Human Sciences and Extension
This study examined change in adolescents’ traditional gender role attitudes and dating violence acceptance following completion of a relationship education program. Using data from a larger study evaluating the effects of relationship education for adolescents, beliefs and attitudes were assessed among a diverse sample of 627 youth. Gender differences in changes from pre- to post-test were also examined. Results of repeated measures MANCOVAs revealed a time X gender interaction effect for change in traditional gender role attitudes following relationship education. A significant decrease in traditional gender role attitudes was found for both boys and girls following relationship education, with a …
Planning For The Future: An Investigation Of Work-Bound Rural Youth, Bryan C. Hutchins, Judith L. Meece, Soo-Yong Byun, Thomas W. Farmer
Planning For The Future: An Investigation Of Work-Bound Rural Youth, Bryan C. Hutchins, Judith L. Meece, Soo-Yong Byun, Thomas W. Farmer
The Rural Educator
The purpose of this study was to explore the postsecondary educational and occupational expectations of work-bound rural youth. Three groups of work-bound youth were identified (work-bound, work-bound with future educational plans, and work-bound but unsure/undecided about postsecondary education), and each group was compared to college-bound rural youth using results from a recent national investigation of the educational and occupational aspirations of rural youth. Results indicated that the majority of rural youth in this study planned to continue their education after high school (56%), followed by 34% who planned to work and further their education. Results of logistic regression analysis indicated …