Assessing teaching quality in nutrition education: A study of two programs in the Netherlands and Australia

The quality with which teachers deliver school-based nutrition programs may impact program effectiveness. The current study examined teaching quality of two programs, Taste Lessons (n = 15 Grade 6 and 7 teachers) and CUPS (n = 3 Year 3 and 4 teachers) via lesson observation using the Quality Teaching Model (QTM). Taste Lessons is a well-established Dutch program on healthy eating and CUPS is a novel Australian program that contains lessons in which nutritional content is integrated with mathematical concepts. The QTM evaluates three dimensions of teaching (Intellectual Quality, Quality Learnin... Mehr ...