SSI Assistant Instructor – Study Guide, Key Concepts & Instructor Training
Review
An SSI Professional must ____ to maintain active status.
All answers are correct
Complete the online renewal
Pay the annual fee
Affiliate with an active status SSI dive center - correct answer ✔✔All answers are correct
The Customer Loyalty Cycles describes the process for:
Acquiring and retaining customers
Convincing customers to visit new dive sites
Selling equipment to customers
All answers are correct - correct answer ✔✔Acquiring and retaining customers
Which of the following is a benefit of affiliating with a Dive Center/Resort?
Access to marketing and student acquisition resources
Access to equipment and training resources
Interactions with more-experienced instructors
All answers are correct - correct answer ✔✔All answers are correct
What are the four components of the Diver Diamond?
Knowledge, Skills, Equipment, Experience
Skills, Equipment, Experience, Time
Experience, Equipment, Commitment, Acquisition
,Equipment, Experience, Travel, Retail - correct answer ✔✔Knowledge, Skills, Equipment,
Experience
Developing the SSI Network benefits dive centers by:
Only increasing the flow of new divers to dive resorts
Increasing communication between dive centers and dive resorts
Decreasing communication between dive centers and dive resorts
Only increasing the flow of new students to dive centers - correct answer ✔✔Increasing
communication between dive centers and dive resorts
Local dive centers usually:
Focus on traveling divers from other destinations
Focus on training and developing a community of local divers
Have easy access to exciting open water dive sites
Only provide continuing education programs - correct answer ✔✔Focus on training and
developing a community of local divers
Resorts usually:
Focus on taking destination divers to exciting dive sites
Only provide entry-level training programs
Focus on developing a local dive community
Have no access to open water dive sites - correct answer ✔✔Focus on taking destination divers
to exciting dive sites
SSI was founded in 1970 by:
Dive retailers
Amateur dive clubs
,Equipment manufacturers
The RSTC - correct answer ✔✔Dive retailers
Which of the following has the greatest effect on a student's attitude toward an SSI program?
The cost of the program
The dive professional conducting the program
The quality of the training materials
The length of time required for the program - correct answer ✔✔The dive professional
conducting the program
Allowing free time for students to practice a skill or play underwater games at the end of a
pool/confined water session is associated with which learning domains?
Psychomotor and Affective Learning Domains
No answer is correct
Affective and Cognitive Learning Domains
Psychomotor and Cognitive Learning Domains - correct answer ✔✔Psychomotor and Affective
Learning Domains
The statement, "Adults want to connect the relevance of what they learn to what they want to
achieve," relates to which adult learning characteristic?
Adults need respect
Adults are practical
Adults are goal-oriented
Adults need to feel that things are relevant - correct answer ✔✔Adults need to feel that things
are relevant
Which learning domain includes a learning activity that consists of removing, replacing, and
clearing a mask?
, The Cognitive Learning Domain
No answer is correct
The Affective Learning Domain
The Psychomotor Learning Domain - correct answer ✔✔The Psychomotor Learning Domain
Which learning domain includes a learning activity that requires the student to describe the
effects of pressure change on the air spaces in the body?
The Cognitive Learning Domain
No answer is correct
The Psychomotor Learning Domain
The Affective Learning Domain - correct answer ✔✔The Cognitive Learning Domain
Using facilitated training strategies to guide learners through the process of connecting their
past experiences to current knowledge and skill-based learning activities relates to which adult
learning characteristic?
Adults are goal-oriented
Adults need respect
Adults are autonomous and self-directed
Adults accumulate personal life experiences - correct answer ✔✔Adults accumulate personal
life experiences
Treating everyone as an equal, and creating a training environment where learners are free to
voice their opinions in class relates to which adult learning characteristic?
Adults are practical
Adults need respect
Adults are goal-oriented
Adults are autonomous and self-directed - correct answer ✔✔Adults need respect
Review
An SSI Professional must ____ to maintain active status.
All answers are correct
Complete the online renewal
Pay the annual fee
Affiliate with an active status SSI dive center - correct answer ✔✔All answers are correct
The Customer Loyalty Cycles describes the process for:
Acquiring and retaining customers
Convincing customers to visit new dive sites
Selling equipment to customers
All answers are correct - correct answer ✔✔Acquiring and retaining customers
Which of the following is a benefit of affiliating with a Dive Center/Resort?
Access to marketing and student acquisition resources
Access to equipment and training resources
Interactions with more-experienced instructors
All answers are correct - correct answer ✔✔All answers are correct
What are the four components of the Diver Diamond?
Knowledge, Skills, Equipment, Experience
Skills, Equipment, Experience, Time
Experience, Equipment, Commitment, Acquisition
,Equipment, Experience, Travel, Retail - correct answer ✔✔Knowledge, Skills, Equipment,
Experience
Developing the SSI Network benefits dive centers by:
Only increasing the flow of new divers to dive resorts
Increasing communication between dive centers and dive resorts
Decreasing communication between dive centers and dive resorts
Only increasing the flow of new students to dive centers - correct answer ✔✔Increasing
communication between dive centers and dive resorts
Local dive centers usually:
Focus on traveling divers from other destinations
Focus on training and developing a community of local divers
Have easy access to exciting open water dive sites
Only provide continuing education programs - correct answer ✔✔Focus on training and
developing a community of local divers
Resorts usually:
Focus on taking destination divers to exciting dive sites
Only provide entry-level training programs
Focus on developing a local dive community
Have no access to open water dive sites - correct answer ✔✔Focus on taking destination divers
to exciting dive sites
SSI was founded in 1970 by:
Dive retailers
Amateur dive clubs
,Equipment manufacturers
The RSTC - correct answer ✔✔Dive retailers
Which of the following has the greatest effect on a student's attitude toward an SSI program?
The cost of the program
The dive professional conducting the program
The quality of the training materials
The length of time required for the program - correct answer ✔✔The dive professional
conducting the program
Allowing free time for students to practice a skill or play underwater games at the end of a
pool/confined water session is associated with which learning domains?
Psychomotor and Affective Learning Domains
No answer is correct
Affective and Cognitive Learning Domains
Psychomotor and Cognitive Learning Domains - correct answer ✔✔Psychomotor and Affective
Learning Domains
The statement, "Adults want to connect the relevance of what they learn to what they want to
achieve," relates to which adult learning characteristic?
Adults need respect
Adults are practical
Adults are goal-oriented
Adults need to feel that things are relevant - correct answer ✔✔Adults need to feel that things
are relevant
Which learning domain includes a learning activity that consists of removing, replacing, and
clearing a mask?
, The Cognitive Learning Domain
No answer is correct
The Affective Learning Domain
The Psychomotor Learning Domain - correct answer ✔✔The Psychomotor Learning Domain
Which learning domain includes a learning activity that requires the student to describe the
effects of pressure change on the air spaces in the body?
The Cognitive Learning Domain
No answer is correct
The Psychomotor Learning Domain
The Affective Learning Domain - correct answer ✔✔The Cognitive Learning Domain
Using facilitated training strategies to guide learners through the process of connecting their
past experiences to current knowledge and skill-based learning activities relates to which adult
learning characteristic?
Adults are goal-oriented
Adults need respect
Adults are autonomous and self-directed
Adults accumulate personal life experiences - correct answer ✔✔Adults accumulate personal
life experiences
Treating everyone as an equal, and creating a training environment where learners are free to
voice their opinions in class relates to which adult learning characteristic?
Adults are practical
Adults need respect
Adults are goal-oriented
Adults are autonomous and self-directed - correct answer ✔✔Adults need respect
