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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