Student Evaluation of Teaching: Spring 2003

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  PHY240*002  Basic Physics: Prin & App
  Meeting: M  3:35pm-4:50pm       JEN 119
           W  2:10pm-4:50pm       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 response

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    24               Full-time:           21
  Respondents:   21               Part-time:            0
  Day:           21               Male:                15
    Freshman:     1               Female:               6
    Sophomore:   17               Subject interest
    Junior:       3                 Interested:        10
    Senior:       0                 Neutral:            7
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     4
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         20
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.39

                           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     48    48     5     0     0      4.43    3.96    4.05
 Difficult           21      5    33    24    29    10      2.95    3.22    3.24
 Benefitted          21     29    57    10     5     0      4.10    3.75    3.88
 Recommend           21     48    38    14     0     0      4.33    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     76    19     5     0     0      4.71    4.23    4.19
 Communication       21     52    43     5     0     0      4.48    3.92    3.89
 Grading             21     38    29    33     0     0      4.05    3.58    3.59
 Interesting         21     52    33     5     5     5      4.24    3.73    3.81
 Responsive          21     52    33    14     0     0      4.38    3.88    3.92
 Overall             21     57    33    10     0     0      4.48    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