Student Evaluation of Teaching: Fall 2002

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  AST201*001  Stars and Universe
  Meeting: T  8:30am-9:45am       AAC 363
           R  8:30am-9:45am       AAC 363
           W  9:55am-11:10am      AAC 363

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION
  Instructor:                     Aghassi, Badri M.
  Rank:                           Professor
  Tenure Status:                  Tenured
  Full/Part-Time:                 Full-time
  Gender:                         Male
  Years college teaching:         38
  Years Bentley teaching:         38
  Previous terms teaching course: 5-10
  Course revisions:               Yes
  Special circumstances:          No

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    23               Full-time:           17
  Respondents:   17               Part-time:            0
  Day:           17               Male:                 9
    Freshman:     0               Female:               8
    Sophomore:   10               Subject interest
    Junior:       6                 Interested:        11
    Senior:       1                 Neutral:            3
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     3
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         19
                                  Avg expected grade:   2.78

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding       17      6    41    24    24     6      3.18    3.33    3.77
 Difficult           17     18    59    18     6     0      3.88    3.97    3.93
 Benefitted          17      6    47    12    18    18      3.06    3.20    3.35
 Recommend           17      0    18    29    24    29      2.35    2.60    2.91

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         17     12    59    18    12     0      3.71    3.77    3.95
 Communication       17      0    35    35    24     6      3.00    2.93    3.12
 Grading             16      0    13    44    19    25      2.44    2.59    3.34
 Interesting         17      0    12    53     6    29      2.47    2.60    2.88
 Responsive          17     12    24    41     6    18      3.06    3.13    3.42
 Overall             17      0    29    35    24    12      2.82    2.97    3.25

Number of sections in course:   2

SD=Strongly Disagree, A=Agree, N=Neutral, D=Disagree, SD=Strongly Disagree
E=Excellent, AA=Above Average, AV=Average, BA=Below Average, U=Unsatisfactory