Student Evaluation of Teaching: Fall 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:         3
  Years Bentley teaching:         No response
  Previous terms teaching course: 5-10
  Course revisions:               No
  Special circumstances:          No

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    23               Full-time:           21
  Respondents:   23               Part-time:            1
  Day:           23               Male:                21
    Freshman:     2               Female:               1
    Sophomore:   15               Subject interest
    Junior:       4                 Interested:        10
    Senior:       1                 Neutral:           11
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     0
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         20
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.52

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding       23     48    43     9     0     0      4.39    3.91    4.01
 Difficult           23     13    26    39    13     9      3.22    3.35    3.18
 Benefitted          23     39    57     4     0     0      4.35    3.74    3.86
 Recommend           23     61    26     4     4     4      4.35    3.71    3.87

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         23     70    26     4     0     0      4.65    4.10    4.18
 Communication       23     70    22     9     0     0      4.61    3.93    3.85
 Grading             23     57    22    13     0     9      4.17    3.75    3.66
 Interesting         23     48    35    13     4     0      4.26    3.85    3.75
 Responsive          23     65    26     4     0     4      4.48    3.94    3.88
 Overall             23     74    13     9     4     0      4.57    3.91    3.91

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