Student Outcomes in Fitness and Nutrition ISEO

The research will implement a short battery of two survey inventories to measure student
outcomes under InSciEd Out Fitness and Nutrition curriculum that is currently administered in
3rd and 4th grade at Lincoln K-8 Choice School. One is a grade-level adapted version of the
National Youth Physical Activity and Nutrition Survey (NYPANS) authored by the United States
Center for Disease Control (CDC). The other is a grade-level adapted version of the Newest
Vital Sign (NVS) health literacy assessment authored by Pfizer and adapted by Dr. Linda
Aldoory at the University of Maryland.

These assessments will help inform the health promotion activities of the InSciEd Out
partnership within Lincoln K-8 Choice in Rochester, Minnesota (MN) and Moreland Elementary in
West St. Paul, MN who originally wrote the curriculum. These assessments will be key to
curricular revision and expansion to other schools that partner with InSciEd Out. As such,
this study is a single cohort, internally controlled pre-post assessment of an existing
behavioral intervention. Pending pilot study success, future follow-up studies are projected
to be parallel-group, nonrandomized clinical trials of a treatment school versus a control
school with grade levels expansion. This study will inform activities within the InSciEd Out
network inside Rochester Public Schools (RPS), where grades Kindergarten through 2nd and 5th
through 8th curricula is currently being built. Previously RPS-approved Mayo Clinic
Institutional Review Board (IRB) #13-003263 describes the format of InSciEd Out programming
in detail, but the general framework of this study operates upon an established partnership
between InSciEd Out researchers and Lincoln K-8 Choice/Moreland Elementary administrators,
teachers, students, and parents.

IRB#13-003263 describes the format of InSciEd Out programming in detail, but the general
framework of this study operates upon an established partnership between InSciEd Out
researchers and administration, teachers, and students at Lincoln K-8 Choice Elementary.

Inclusion Criteria:

- Students attending 3rd and 4th grade classes at Lincoln K-8 Choice Elementary School
in Rochester, MN or Moreland Elementary School in West St. Paul, MN who assent to the
study

Exclusion Criteria:

- Students attending 3rd and 4th grade classes at Lincoln K-8 Choice Elementary School
in Rochester, MN or Moreland Elementary School in West St. Paul, MN whose parents
chose to opt-out of the study or who do not assent to the study