Student Evaluation of Teaching: Fall 2003

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:         40
  Years Bentley teaching:         39
  Previous terms teaching course: 5-10
  Course revisions:               No
  Special circumstances:          No response

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    21               Full-time:           19
  Respondents:   19               Part-time:            0
  Day:           19               Male:                 9
    Freshman:     0               Female:              10
    Sophomore:   17               Subject interest
    Junior:       2                 Interested:         8
    Senior:       0                 Neutral:            9
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     2
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         20
                                  Avg expected grade:   2.99

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding       19     26    16    37    11    11      3.37    3.42    3.60
 Difficult           19     37    32    16    16     0      3.89    4.06    4.00
 Benefitted          19      5    32    26    11    26      2.79    2.97    3.24
 Recommend           19      0    16    37    21    26      2.42    2.61    2.63

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         19     21    42    32     5     0      3.79    3.90    3.78
 Communication       19      5    21    37    21    16      2.79    3.16    2.86
 Grading             19     11    26    42    11    11      3.16    3.55    2.97
 Interesting         18     11    17    17    28    28      2.56    2.83    2.61
 Responsive          19     11    11    26    32    21      2.58    2.97    3.21
 Overall             19      5    32    21    26    16      2.84    3.19    2.99

Number of sections in course:   2

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