NPI Adult Direct Education Evaluation
Welcome to Adult Direct Education Evaluation
Adult Direct Education Evaluation (Adult DE Eval) is an annual and ongoing evaluation coordinated by Nutrition Policy Institute (NPI) at the direction of the California Department of Social Services (CDSS). To detect change in behavioral outcomes, Local Health Departments (LHDs) are required to conduct pre- and post-surveys before and after all adult-focused education series of at least 4 sessions.
What tool do we use?
All CalFresh Healthy Living state implementing agencies (SIAs) are required to use a core set of questions from the validated Food Behavior Checklist and EFNEP Food & Physical Activity Questionnaire. NPI adds a few additional questions, designed to inform your interventions. We refer to our survey as the CalFresh Healthy Living Adult Survey. LHDs can choose to administer the survey to class participants online, or via paper, with all paper surveys being entered into the online survey link. The survey is currently available in 13 languages. To learn more, see the Survey & Evaluation Resources.
When does this take place?
The online survey opens for the new fiscal year in conjunction with PEARS in mid-October. Data collection ends each year on August 31st to ensure we have time to aggregate, match, clean, and analyze data for final reporting. Annually, evaluation is not required to take place between August 31st and mid-October. If you have a class series that begins prior to August 31st, but will not conclude by August 31st, you do not need to evaluate it. To learn more, see the Annual Timeline.
What happens to our data?
Data from all LHDs are analyzed by NPI at the statewide (CDPH) level and reported in N-PEARS. They are also provided to CDSS to aggregate with data from other SIAs. All LHDs collecting matched data will receive matched, cleaned interactive datasets. If sample size allows (≥ 30 matched pairs per LHD), LHDs can use results generated from the interactive dataset to populate Canva infographic templates provided by NPI. New datasets can be found in your LHD Evaluation OneDrive folder around November of each year. To learn more about our statewide findings, see our FFY 24 Adult Survey Statewide Infographic.