Student Evaluation of Teaching: Fall 2002

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  AST201*002  Stars and Universe
  Meeting: T  9:55am-11:10am      AAC 363
           R  9:55am-11:10am      AAC 363
           F  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:         39
  Years Bentley teaching:         38
  Previous terms teaching course: 5-10
  Course revisions:               Yes
  Special circumstances:          No

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    24               Full-time:           13
  Respondents:   13               Part-time:            0
  Day:           13               Male:                 7
    Freshman:     0               Female:               6
    Sophomore:   12               Subject interest
    Junior:       1                 Interested:        11
    Senior:       0                 Neutral:            2
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     0
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         19
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.01

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding       13     15    46    23     8     8      3.54    3.33    3.77
 Difficult           13     23    62    15     0     0      4.08    3.97    3.93
 Benefitted          13      8    31    54     8     0      3.38    3.20    3.35
 Recommend           13      8    15    46    23     8      2.92    2.60    2.91

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         13     23    38    38     0     0      3.85    3.77    3.95
 Communication       13      0    15    62    15     8      2.85    2.93    3.12
 Grading             13      8     8    46    31     8      2.77    2.59    3.34
 Interesting         13      0     8    69    15     8      2.77    2.60    2.88
 Responsive          13     15     8    62    15     0      3.23    3.13    3.42
 Overall             13     15     8    62     8     8      3.15    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