scholarly journals SWOT Analysis of a Didactic Program in Dietetics: Results from Focus Group Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
David Edens ◽  
Bonny Burns-Whitmore

This study utilized focus group research to understand the experiences of students in a Didactic Program in Dietetics (DPD) at a large, public university. Students participating in the focus group reflected on and discussed the strengths, weakness, opportunities, and threats of the program. The participants stated that faculty support, hands-on learning, and opportunities to participate in clubs were strengths of the program. Students would like more opportunity to do research with faculty. They also indicated that there are program weaknesses such as access to common space, limits in course availability, roadblocks in curriculum, and limited access to necessary tools. Program opportunities, such as the upcoming accreditation visit, will express the student’s concerns and therefore focus administration’s attention on much needed financial support for the program. Although not a specific threat, changes in the credentialing for Registered Dietitian Nutritionists were also discussed by the students. Data were collected in preparation for an accreditation visit. However, the results can be used to advise department and university administrators about what items make students successful in their programs.

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated

NASPA Journal ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryann Jacobi

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 701-709 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Harden ◽  
Ann Schafenacker ◽  
Laurel Northouse ◽  
Darlene Mood ◽  
David Smith ◽  
...  

1999 ◽  
Vol 92 (5) ◽  
pp. 312-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Kline Liu ◽  
Richard Spicuzza ◽  
Ronald Erickson

Author(s):  
Oladokun Omojola

Substantial literature exists to support the growing importance of focus group research, having been around for decades. Its ubiquity under the scholarship radar is not in doubt while the analyses of findings commonly seen are scholarly and significantly sophisticated. However, these analyses have been found to be limited in scope for fresh adopters of the focus group method, non-literate beneficiaries of research findings and business people who are critically averse to lengthy textual statements about outcomes. This article introduces the use of symbols as a means of analyzing responses from small focus group discussions. It attempts to demonstrate that using symbols can substantially assist in the prima facie determination of perceptions from a focus group membership, its patterns of agreement and disagreement, as well as the sequence of its discussions.


1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward F. McQuarrie ◽  
Thomas L. Greenbaum ◽  
Jane Farley

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave Merryweather

This paper draws upon current research to consider the value of the focus group method for exploring the relationships between youth, risk and social position. Groups comprising young people occupying similar social positions were used to generate talk about aspects of everyday life regarded as risk. Through the processes of conversational interaction facilitated by the focus group method, participants co-produced detailed risk narratives, understood here in Bourdieu's terms as product and producer of the habitus related to social position. Using data from several of the focus groups I illustrate how the method was especially useful in generating narratives indicative of how risks were experienced and understood in different ways according to social positions of class, gender and ethnicity. Such risk narratives also reproduced distinctions between and within different social positions. Consideration is given to certain limitations of the focus group method in respect of this research. Ultimately, however, the ability of the method to generate collaborative narratives reflective of shared social position is viewed as an invaluable means for developing a rich and nuanced account of the relations between youth and risk.


2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 104-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Vermeire ◽  
P Van Royen ◽  
F Griffiths ◽  
S Coenen ◽  
L Peremans ◽  
...  

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