Student Evaluation of Teaching: Fall 2003

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  AST303*001  Life in Universe
  Meeting: M  11:20am-12:35pm     AAC 363
           W  11:20am-12:35pm     AAC 363

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION
  Instructor:                     Fishman, George Paul
  Rank:                           No response
  Tenure Status:                  Not Tenure Track
  Full/Part-Time:                 Full-time
  Gender:                         Male
  Years college teaching:         10
  Years Bentley teaching:         No response
  Previous terms teaching course: 3
  Course revisions:               No
  Special circumstances:          No

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    20               Full-time:           19
  Respondents:   19               Part-time:            0
  Day:           19               Male:                16
    Freshman:     0               Female:               2
    Sophomore:    0               Subject interest
    Junior:       4                 Interested:        14
    Senior:      15                 Neutral:            4
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     1
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         21
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.06

                           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     74    26     0     0     0      4.74    4.74    4.30
 Difficult           18     22    28    22    22     6      3.39    3.39    3.50
 Benefitted          19     63    21    11     5     0      4.42    4.42    4.02
 Recommend           19     63    16    11     5     5      4.26    4.26    3.85

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         19     79    21     0     0     0      4.79    4.79    4.38
 Communication       19     84     5    11     0     0      4.74    4.74    4.09
 Grading             19     37    26    21    16     0      3.84    3.84    3.61
 Interesting         19     68    21    11     0     0      4.58    4.58    4.00
 Responsive          19     74    16    11     0     0      4.63    4.63    4.14
 Overall             19     74    16    11     0     0      4.63    4.63    4.09

Number of sections in course:   1

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