- Emilie Emberton
- Evaluation of the Illinois Junior Chefs Program
- Human Development and Family Studies
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your research
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Emilie implemented an evaluation of the Illinois Junior Chefs Program, assessing participant outcomes using surveys and testing the feasibility of a hands-on cooking skill assessment as an evaluation method.
Illinois Junior Chefs (IJC) is a nutrition education program focusing on hands-on cooking skills. The program targets youth aged 7-14 years that are from low-resource communities. In addition to pre- and post- program surveys, a skill testing evaluation method was implemented this summer. Overall results show positive changes in participant survey scores and cooking skills. Information gathered through this grant will be used to make further curriculum modifications.
As one of the recipient's of OUR's Research Support Grant (2017), the results of Emilie's research can be found here.
