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

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    23               Full-time:           20
  Respondents:   20               Part-time:            0
  Day:           20               Male:                14
    Freshman:     0               Female:               6
    Sophomore:   15               Subject interest
    Junior:       5                 Interested:        10
    Senior:       0                 Neutral:            8
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     2
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         19
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.37

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding       20     20    70     5     5     0      4.05    3.91    4.01
 Difficult           20     10    40    25    15    10      3.25    3.35    3.18
 Benefitted          20     20    65    15     0     0      4.05    3.74    3.86
 Recommend           20     35    50    15     0     0      4.20    3.71    3.87

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         20     55    45     0     0     0      4.55    4.10    4.18
 Communication       20     45    45    10     0     0      4.35    3.93    3.85
 Grading             20     35    50    15     0     0      4.20    3.75    3.66
 Interesting         20     60    25    15     0     0      4.45    3.85    3.75
 Responsive          20     50    45     5     0     0      4.45    3.94    3.88
 Overall             19     47    47     5     0     0      4.42    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