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Program Goals, Objectives, and Outcome Measures


Students entering the Dietetics program will establish a learning portfolio with personal reflection, learning needs assessment, learning plan, activities log, and a learning plan evaluation.

Goal 1
To recognize each student’s potential and to provide opportunities to stimulate the growth and development of the student.

Outcome Measure
Track student portfolio for completeness and successful completion of their learning plan. 90% of the students will be satisfied with the evaluation of their learning plan.

Goal 2
To provide students, who have the goal of entry into an ADA accredited Dietetic Internship, with the foundation knowledge, skills, and competencies for entry-level dietetic education programs.

Outcome Measure
Track DI applications and completion rates. 80% of applicants who are admitted will complete the program.

Goal 3
To provide graduates with the values necessary for their independence, an active sense of civic responsibility, and a concern for improving the conditions of humanity through the both dietetics and the general education program based on the liberal arts and the Christian world view.

Outcome Measure
Students will successfully complete the dietetics curricula and the general education at College of the Ozarks which supports and supplements the five-fold mission of the institution; academic, vocational, spiritual, patriotic and cultural.

Graduates, internship directors, and employers will be surveyed to determine competencies from the dietetics and “general education program that enable students to adapt to a constantly changing world while holding fast to values that hold eternally true.”

Goal 4
To provide curricula that prepares students for professional careers in all areas of dietetics, human nutrition and food service.

Outcome Measure
Continually update curricula in accordance with new knowledge and the dynamics of the dietetics profession.

 


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