Implementation of Project-based Learning in Diet Therapy Study

Abstract

Project-based learning is project-based learning that involves students in the process of design, problem-solving, decision-making, or investigative activities, as well as providing opportunities for students to work autonomously within a certain period and create results in the form of products. This study aims to describe student activities in the implementation of project-based learning in the Diet therapy course. The research subjects were students who took the diet therapy course at the Culinary Study Program, Department of Family Welfare, Universitas Negeri Padang. The steps taken in the diet therapy course are the division of work groups, the introduction or observation of clients, which includes client characteristics, the client's nutritional adequacy rate, recommended and not recommended foods for clients, and carrying out activities that include the process of preparing menus, calculating content nutrition from the prepared menu, and the processing and presentation of food. Data analysis used descriptive statistics from the results of student activities on diet therapy processes and projects. The average value of student process activities is 78.20 and the average value of student final assignments is 79.87. This shows that students attend lectures quite well and produce projects in the form of daily diet menus that are arranged according to the recommended nutritional adequacy and according to the competencies to be achieved.