Student Evaluation of Teaching: Spring 2003

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  PHY240*001  Basic Physics: Prin & App
  Meeting: M  11:20am-2:00pm      JEN 119
           W  11:20am-12:35pm     JEN 119

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION
  Instructor:                     Nichols, Steven J
  Rank:                           Instructor
  Tenure Status:                  Not Tenure Track
  Full/Part-Time:                 Full-time
  Gender:                         Male
  Years college teaching:         2
  Years Bentley teaching:         2
  Previous terms teaching course: 5-10
  Course revisions:               No
  Special circumstances:          No

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    24               Full-time:           21
  Respondents:   21               Part-time:            0
  Day:           21               Male:                14
    Freshman:     3               Female:               7
    Sophomore:   16               Subject interest
    Junior:       2                 Interested:         9
    Senior:       0                 Neutral:           10
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     2
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         20
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.26

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding       21     14    67    14     0     5      3.86    3.96    4.05
 Difficult           21      5    29    33    24    10      2.95    3.22    3.24
 Benefitted          21     14    57    10    14     5      3.62    3.75    3.88
 Recommend           21     19    62    10     5     5      3.86    3.86    3.88

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         21     48    43     5     0     5      4.29    4.23    4.19
 Communication       21     43    38    10     5     5      4.10    3.92    3.89
 Grading             21     10    48    24    19     0      3.48    3.58    3.59
 Interesting         21     24    57    10     5     5      3.90    3.73    3.81
 Responsive          21     38    38    14    10     0      4.05    3.88    3.92
 Overall             21     33    57     0     5     5      4.10    3.92    3.94

Number of sections in course:   4

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