Student Evaluation of Teaching: Spring 2004

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:         4
  Years Bentley teaching:         4
  Previous terms teaching course: 5-10
  Course revisions:               Yes
  Special circumstances:          No

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    24               Full-time:           21
  Respondents:   21               Part-time:            0
  Day:           21               Male:                12
    Freshman:     1               Female:               9
    Sophomore:   14               Subject interest
    Junior:       5                 Interested:         8
    Senior:       1                 Neutral:           11
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     2
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         20
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.24

                           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     24    57    10     5     5      3.90    3.93    3.92
 Difficult           21      5    24    29    33    10      2.81    3.19    3.24
 Benefitted          21     19    67     5     5     5      3.90    3.77    3.78
 Recommend           21     33    57     5     0     5      4.14    3.80    3.78

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         21     62    38     0     0     0      4.62    4.32    4.11
 Communication       21     43    48    10     0     0      4.33    4.18    3.80
 Grading             21     48    33    14     5     0      4.24    4.01    3.75
 Interesting         21     57    33    10     0     0      4.48    3.95    3.71
 Responsive          21     48    43    10     0     0      4.38    4.19    3.84
 Overall             21     52    38    10     0     0      4.43    4.22    3.88

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