{"id":108,"date":"2011-03-02T14:27:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T19:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spcbt.wordpress.com\/?p=108"},"modified":"2024-01-30T16:01:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T21:01:15","slug":"make-a-difference-with-the-student-survey-of-instruction-ssi-at-st-petersburg-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/make-a-difference-with-the-student-survey-of-instruction-ssi-at-st-petersburg-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Make a difference with the Student Survey of Instruction (SSI) at St. Petersburg College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By KIMBERLY ROSS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>At the end of each term, students are given the opportunity to provide feedback about the outcome of a course. One such means is the Student Survey of Instruction (SSI).<\/p>\n<p>This questionnaire is designed for students to offer their opinions regarding the operation of a class, the methods of instruction, the effectiveness of the teaching methods, and the facilitation for learning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The environment in which a student learns, as well as the treatment he or she receives from the instructor, has a direct bearing on whether a successful outcome will be achieved. For instance, if a student feels lost in the crowd due to a large class size or because of difficulty in understanding the material, this may eventually lead a student to withdraw from a course.<\/p>\n<p>Feelings of doubt and inadequacy can creep in and make a student feel like a failure and lose motivation to thrive.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0To prevent this, it is imperative that students take the SSI seriously, giving careful thought to their responses to questions such as, \u201cWere the instructor&#8217;s teaching methods effective?\u201d and \u201cWas understanding of the course material increased by the end of the course?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Being honest in answering such questions allow the \u201cpowers that be\u201d to carefully examine the design of the course to know where improvements need to be made in the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So instead of viewing the SSI as a nuisance, view it as a chance to make a difference for students, instructors, and the whole St. Petersburg College community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By KIMBERLY ROSS \u00a0At the end of each term, students are given the opportunity to provide feedback about the outcome of a course. One such means is the Student Survey of Instruction (SSI). This questionnaire is designed for students to offer their opinions regarding the operation of a class, the methods of instruction, the effectiveness &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/make-a-difference-with-the-student-survey-of-instruction-ssi-at-st-petersburg-college\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Make a difference with the Student Survey of Instruction (SSI) at St. Petersburg College<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[68,69],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ccit","tag-st-petersburg-college","tag-survey-of-instruction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4741,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/4741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}