Survey construction specific content areas.

All items were Likert-type based items except those noted. Food systems questions were used as the context for the items because this topic was featured prominently in the course. The process of survey design began with a list of constructs the researchers were interested in and associating specific questions with those constructs. After item construction for each major content area, the authors shared them with colleagues and suggested edits were made. Next a group of naïve individuals chosen through a snowball sample were given the questions and these individuals were asked to discuss their answers to determine alignment between question and answers. Any questions where alignment could not be obtained were eliminated.