Student Evaluation of Teaching: Spring 2004

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

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    24               Full-time:           19
  Respondents:   19               Part-time:            0
  Day:           19               Male:                12
    Freshman:     3               Female:               7
    Sophomore:   13               Subject interest
    Junior:       2                 Interested:         4
    Senior:       1                 Neutral:           12
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     3
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         20
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.28

                           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     32    47    21     0     0      4.11    3.93    3.92
 Difficult           19      5    26    37    21    11      2.95    3.19    3.24
 Benefitted          19     11    63    16    11     0      3.74    3.77    3.78
 Recommend           19     21    53    11    16     0      3.79    3.80    3.78

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         19     47    47     5     0     0      4.42    4.32    4.11
 Communication       19     58    26    16     0     0      4.42    4.18    3.80
 Grading             19     42    32    16    11     0      4.05    4.01    3.75
 Interesting         19     42    26    26     5     0      4.05    3.95    3.71
 Responsive          19     42    42    11     5     0      4.21    4.19    3.84
 Overall             19     53    32    16     0     0      4.37    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