SMA Student Feedback

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Student Feedback from SMA and SIP

Another Recent Graduate had this to say:

I will refer your program every chance I get because I believe it
is producing well-trained, ready-to-work scopists.
Plus, I know your advice and mentoring does not stop once
when the program is completed. You really care about the
success of your students after the "bookwork" is finished. The
conference calls are a huge value-added bonus. And now the
new forum!
Devon, thank you for taking me "under your wing."
Sincerely,
Joyce Preusser, 11/15/09

From an SIP Graduate

I felt Devon was better than any other instructor I’ve encountered as
far as responding to questions or just offering encouragement and
kind words!!

I wish I had studied with Devon to begin with!!

Dawn Rose Spencer
Graduated 2/1/10

A Prospective Inquiry posed this question:

Do you feel you are receiving proper training to do the work as well as to
market yourself and take your first big step into the scoping world?

I am very happy with the training. Devon really cares that you feel confident in your
skills and that you have the skills required to do the job.

I love the way you
have the material put together.

I'm amazed by how
much material you have!!

Current Data for SMA and SIP
(As of March 2010)

SMA/SIP will no longer update this information because of
the number of enrollments, graduates and total business it
is receiving.
Feel free to visit the graduates page to see who has
graduated and who you may contact directly for feedback
about the SMA/SIP training experience.

To the best of my knowledge, all graduates have scoping
work. And at least two interns have gotten work before
they have finished their training.

Thanks for the positive
feedback. It went a long way.

Devon, I am so excited about your Scoping Intern Program. I
have already learned so much in the short time I have been
enrolled. The conference calls are like being in a virtual
classroom and are a great learning tool. I have gained great
confidence in the skills I am learning and it is all because of
you and your devotion to your students! I only wish had learned
about your scoping program sooner. I would recommend your
program to anyone interested in this field.
Debbie Hansin, March 12, 2010

Since SMA feels strongly about getting feedback about services that are
offered, SMA asks each graduate to fill out an evaluation survey.

Here are a couple of responses from two graduates:

For a scoping training program, the following areas were covered during your
training.
Please indicate by putting a number in the box based upon the following scale:
1. Very good     2. Good      3. Average     4. Not good       5. Very disappointed

1        Transcript formatting
1        Terminology in the field of scoping and court reporting.
1        Basic review of sentence structure.
1        Punctuation rules as related to the court reporting field.
1        Contextual reading
1        Practice transcripts to practice reading contextually and practice
editing.
1        Number training
1        CAT training
1        Marketing
1        Research

Because of the amount of training material
covered and now that you have completed the
training program, do you feel that the introductory
information you received
regarding the training was accurate?

x Yes No

Comments shared from SIPs
(Note: As of March 2010, the SIP has enrolled interns of
graduates from all of the online training programs.)