Food Sensations® Research & Evaluation

The Food Sensations® Program uses interactive nutrition activities and cooking workshops to teach students, teachers and the community about healthy eating. The evaluation collected is from students, teachers and participants in our professional development days.

Food Sensations® in Schools

Currently Food Sensations® workshops in schools are evaluated by pre and post surveys completed by the students. This will help us to assess increases in knowledge and intentions for behaviour change by students. It will also allow us to make improvements and changes to the program in future years. Up until the end of 2011 only post evaluation was conducted. See below for the links to the 2010 and 2011 primary and high school reports.

2010 Primary School Report  (PDF - 151kb)

2010 High School Report  (PDF - 151kb)

2011 Primary School Report  (PDF - 294kb)

2011 High School Report  (PDF - 286kb)

Food Sensations® Teacher Feedback

After each school session we also survey the classroom teacher. The 2011 survey was a short nine question survey which asked the teacher to provide feedback about the Food Sensations® session. Please click the following links to access the Food Sensations® Teacher Reports.

2010 Teacher Report  (PDF - 151kb)

2011 Teacher Report  (PDF - 442kb)

Food Sensations® Educator Training Days

Educator Training Days (Professional Development) are offered at Foodbank WA once per month. Participants are assessed on knowledge and intention to change behaviour after the session. The session is a one day workshop which offers a variety of interactive activities based on the WA Department of Health's FOODcents® program.

Please click the following links to access the Food Sensations® Education Training Day Reports.

2010 Educator Training Day Report  (PDF - 151kb)

2011 Educator Training Day Report  (PDF - 233kb)

Food Sensations® Program Case Study Research

Foodbank WA commissioned an independent research agency (TNS) during 2010 to assist us in the understanding how well the Food Sensations® Program was working in terms of providing positive outcomes for children, teachers, parents and the school community. To achieve this, TNS used a Case Study approach as well as a questionnaire. The Food Sensations® component was published as a separate, additional report.

Please click the following link to access the TNS Food Sensations® Case Study Report.

2010 Food Sensations Research Report - TNS Social Research  (PDF - 151kb)