Evaluate health promoting strategies designed to address a nutritional need
This is an external exam (sat in a formal exam setting, not assessed by your teacher) worth 4 credits. You are given a resource booklet describing real health-promoting strategies aimed at fixing a nutrition problem — for example, reducing the cost of food in a school canteen and increasing fruit and vegetable options. Using that booklet and your own knowledge, you write about how well those strategies work, considering social, economic, and environmental factors. You need to weigh up the good and bad sides of each strategy and make judgements about their effectiveness.
You correctly explain the benefits and limitations of at least one or two strategies using social, economic, or environmental factors. You make a basic judgement about how effective a strategy is. You use examples from the resource booklet, though they may be brief.
You explain in detail the effectiveness of at least two strategies, covering social, economic, and environmental factors with clear examples and reasoning. You go beyond just copying the resource — you add your own knowledge and connect ideas back to the strategies.
You compare and challenge all three strategies across all three factors (social, economic, environmental). You point out what could be improved ('what next' ideas), draw well-supported conclusions about which strategy is most effective and why, and show critical thinking by bringing in concepts like behavioural models of health and attitudes and values.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.