Evaluation
- Types of Evaluation in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Toolkit (Rural Health Information Hub) – Overview of formative, process, outcome, and impact evaluation types for community health and nutrition programs
- The National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR) developed a Measures Registry and a User Guide specific to the food environment to assist with selecting and utilizing measurement tools
- SNAP-Ed Evaluation Framework & Interpretive Guide (USDA) – Structured evaluation framework for community-based nutrition education, emphasizing multi-level indicators and standardized metrics
- CDC Program Evaluation Framework, 2024 | MMWR – Summarizes and organizes essential elements of program evaluation
- Project Evaluation Plan Guide – Overview of evaluation plan components for rural health networks
- Evaluation of nutrition education programmes: Implications for programme planners and evaluators – Guidance for designing and implementing evaluations to assess both process and impact outcomes
- Selected Evaluation Tools for Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyles Projects – Compilation of validated instruments and templates for nutrition and health-related behavior change projects
- Nutrition Education: Principles of Sound Impact Evaluation (FNS) – Outlines core characteristics of a rigorous impact evaluation for nutrition-education programs
- Contento, I. R., Randell, J. S., & Basch, C. E. (2002). Review and analysis of evaluation measures used in nutrition education intervention research. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 34(1), 2–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1499-4046(06)60220-0
- Bailey, R.L., Seguin-Fowler, R., Stover, P.J. et al. Effectiveness evaluation of national nutrition education programmes must be a priority to safeguard nutrition security. Nat Food 6, 419–422 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01164-5
- Fynn JF, Hardeman W, Milton K, Jones AP. A scoping review of evaluation frameworks and their applicability to real-world physical activity and dietary change programme evaluation. BMC Public Health. 2020;20(1):1000. Published 2020 Jun 26. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09062-0
- Bardon LA, Bennett G, Weech M, et al. The development and evaluation of a quality assessment framework for reuse of dietary intake data: an FNS-Cloud study. Frontiers in Nutrition. 2025;12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2025.1519401
- Tumilowicz A, Ruel MT, Pelto G, et al. Implementation Science in Nutrition: Concepts and Frameworks for an Emerging Field of Science and Practice. Curr Dev Nutr. 2018;3(3):nzy080. Published 2018 Oct 13. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzy080