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Verify outcomes and requirements

Check a program’s current entry requirements, completion evidence, credential status, outcomes, and support claims.

About 37 minutes Finish with a concrete deliverable
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Course primer

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From Minnesota Goes to College. Watch here or open it on YouTube .

During the course primer, listen for ideas that change how you approach “Verify outcomes and requirements.” Pause once to capture a useful point, then apply it while producing an evidence table for three programs with source dates, definitions, unknowns, and follow-up questions.
Before you begin

What this lesson is really solving.

Check a program’s current entry requirements, completion evidence, credential status, outcomes, and support claims. This is lesson 3 because later decisions depend on an evidence table for three programs with source dates, definitions, unknowns, and follow-up questions. A result is decision evidence only when the definition, population, source, and date are visible. Use your own numbers, files, environment, and constraints so the result survives outside the course.

Why this works

Understand the idea before touching the steps.

A result is decision evidence only when the definition, population, source, and date are visible.

Do this

Follow these steps in order.

Take the action in each step; then use the deliverable below to prove the lesson is finished.

  1. 1

    Open the current provider or official agency page and record exact requirements, dates, approvals, credential language, and costs.

  2. 2

    Ask how completion, placement, pass rates, transfer, or earnings claims are defined and who is included.

  3. 3

    Mark each claim verified, unclear, outdated, or unsupported and write the contact question needed to resolve it.

Worked example

See the standard in context.

Nora discovers that a placement claim excludes many completers and ranks a smaller program with clearer reporting above it. The learner saves an evidence table for three programs with source dates, definitions, unknowns, and follow-up questions and notes the evidence or assumption behind the choice so it can be reviewed and improved later.

Quality check

Inspect before you move on.

  • The finished work visibly includes an evidence table for three programs with source dates, definitions, unknowns, and follow-up questions.
  • You tested the work against this common failure: Accepting a percentage or testimonial without asking who was counted, what success meant, or when it was measured.
  • Another person could verify this mastery standard: The comparison keeps marketing language separate from verified requirements and outcomes.
Make it real

Your deliverable

An evidence table for three programs with source dates, definitions, unknowns, and follow-up questions.

Common mistake

Watch for this

Accepting a percentage or testimonial without asking who was counted, what success meant, or when it was measured.

You’re ready when

Prove it—don’t just recognize it.

The comparison keeps marketing language separate from verified requirements and outcomes.

Objective evidence · 3 questions

Quick knowledge check

Answer from the lesson—not from confidence alone. Score at least 2 of 3 to unlock completion.

Not yet passed

This curriculum-aligned check is scored automatically and stored with your account when signed in. It is an objective learning signal, but it has not yet been independently validated as a standardized assessment.

1Which action belongs in the recommended process for “Verify outcomes and requirements”?
2Which result is the clearest evidence that this lesson’s work is complete?
3Which choice matches the failure this lesson specifically warns against?
0 of 3 answeredEach question measures the action, evidence, or failure condition taught above.
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One check remains

Pass the knowledge check above first.

Completion unlocks after a score of 2 out of 3. Then confirm that you produced the lesson deliverable.

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