Food Safety in the Classroom: Using the Delphi Technique to Evaluate Researcher-Developed Food Safety Curriculum Aligned to State Academic Standards

Autor/inn/en	Barrett, Tressie E.; Feng, Yaohua; Wang, Hui-Hui
Titel	Food Safety in the Classroom: Using the Delphi Technique to Evaluate Researcher-Developed Food Safety Curriculum Aligned to State Academic Standards
Quelle	In: Journal of Food Science Education, 19 (2020) 3, S.152-172 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Feng, Yaohua)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1541-4329
DOI	10.1111/1541-4329.12198
Schlagwörter	High School Students; Delphi Technique; Foods Instruction; Safety; Curriculum Development; Alignment (Education); State Standards; Academic Standards; Curriculum Design; Experiential Learning; STEM Education; Agriculture; Curriculum Evaluation; Barriers; Curriculum Implementation; Costs; Career Education; Indiana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Delphi-Methode; Lebensmittelkunde; Sicherheit; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Lehrplangestaltung; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; STEM; Landwirtschaft; Evaluation; Curriculumevaluation; Rahmenplan; Evaluierung; Cost; Kosten; Arbeitslehre
Abstract	High school students' prevalence as food-service industry employees and their lack of food safety knowledge make them prime candidates for food safety education. The researchers developed a food-safety-focused curriculum for high school students aligned with Indiana Academic Standards for Agriculture, Advanced Life Science: Food. The curriculum was designed to provide students with fundamental food safety concepts through experiential learning and incorporation of science, technology, engineering, agriculture, and mathematics (STEAM) activities in the context of different careers related to agriculture, especially in food science. This study uses the Delphi technique to evaluate the food safety curriculum, including the identification of barriers to incorporating the curriculum into classrooms. The Delphi technique uses an expert panel to generate consensus related to a topic. A panel of experts in the field of education evaluated the curriculum through three rounds of surveys containing questions related to six curriculum assessment topics. Experts rated the degree to which they agreed with statements about the curriculum using a 5-point Likert scale and multiple-choice questions. At the conclusion of the study, the cost to purchase materials for cooking labs was the only identified barrier to curriculum incorporation (62.5%). Experts agreed that the curriculum addressed academic standards (100%), was engaging for students (100.0%), was easy for teachers to use (89.5%), and successfully incorporated STEAM (100.0%), experiential learning (89.5%), and career-education (78.9%). This study highlights the feasibility of providing food safety education to high school students in less traditional disciplines while promoting career development through the incorporation of experiential learning, STEAM, and career-education components. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01