Post Survey Knowledge & Attitude Part 3 Background Information

The Wisconsin Farm to School Evaluation

About This Tool
The Wisconsin Farm to School Evaluation (beginning fall 2010) began using a student survey to
assess factors believed to predict or influence fruit and vegetable consumption:
 Attitudes toward eating fruits and vegetables: fruit/vegetable neophobia, or fear of
trying new fruits/vegetables (in various settings, with different/unknown names, if it
looks strange, etc.)
 Knowledge about nutrition and agricultural concepts
 Perception/Self-efficacy for making healthy eating choices
 Exposure to a series of specific fruit and vegetable items
 Liking of the specific fruits and vegetables students have tasted (as reported in
Exposure)
 Willingness to try the specific fruits and vegetables (i.e., if they hadn’t previously tried it,
or if they had tried it and not liked it).
 Fruit and Vegetable Screener – a brief series of questions about what fruit/vegetable
items (grouped) students remember eating in the past day, and how much of each.

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* 1. How many times in your life have you been to a farm?

Never

1 Time

2 Times

3 Times

4 Times or more

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* 2. How do tomatoes grow?

As plants

As animals

As minerals

Something else

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* 3. What part of a plant is a carrot? Please check one.

Leaf

Root

Stem

Flower

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* 4. Where do eggs come from? Please check one.

Cows

Goats

Chickens

Something else

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* 5. What is the benefit of using compost?

Compost feeds wild animals

Makes farmers use more chemical fertilizers

Compost keeps food out of landfills.

None of the above.

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* 6. Do insects play an important role in growing plants?

Yes

I don't know

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* 7. Do TOMATOES grow in Pennsylvania?

Yes

I don't know

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* 8. Do ORANGES grow in Pennsylvania?

Yes

I don't know

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* 9. Do APPLES grow in Pennsylvania?

Yes

I don't know

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* 10. Does SQUASH grow in Pennsylvania?

Yes

I don't know

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* 11. Does BANANAS grow in Pennsylvania?

Yes

I don't know

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* 12. Imagine a meal with a hotdog in a bun and a glass of milk. What food group is missing? Please check one.

Dairy

Fruits & Vegetables

Meat

Grains

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* 13. What food group does the pear belong to? Please check one.

Dairy

Fruits & Vegetables

Meat

Grains

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* 14. Fruits and vegetables that are high in Vitamin A are in color.

Red and white

Blue and light brown

Yellow-orange and dark green

Brown and purple

I don’t know

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* 15. Why do I need to eat food?

I need food for energy and to grow.

I Need food ONLY because it tastes good.

I don’t need food.

I don’t know

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* 16. Why do I need to eat different kinds of foods?

I can get a lot of the SAME nutrients.

I can get many DIFFERENT nutrients.

I don’t need to eat different kinds of food.

I don’t know.

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* 17. Healthy eating is:

eating fruits but not vegetables.

not eating fruits or vegetables.

eating both fruits and vegetables.

I don’t know.

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* 18. The foods that I eat for meals and snacks are healthy. (Choose one.)

Yes, all of the time

Yes, sometimes

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* 19. How likely are you to eat fresh fruit instead of candy? (Choose one.)

Not likely

Likely

Very Likely

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* 20. Which of these is the HEALTHIEST way to eat potatoes?

Potato salad

French fries

Baked potato

I don’t know