Student Evaluation of Teaching: Fall 2004

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  AST201*001  Stars and Universe
  Meeting: M  11:20am-12:35pm     AAC 363
           W  11:20am-12:35pm     AAC 363
           T  12:45pm-2:00pm      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:         11
  Years Bentley teaching:         10
  Previous terms teaching course: Never
  Course revisions:               Yes
  Special circumstances:          No

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    24               Full-time:           23
  Respondents:   23               Part-time:            0
  Day:           23               Male:                18
    Freshman:     0               Female:               5
    Sophomore:   12               Subject interest
    Junior:       6                 Interested:        15
    Senior:       5                 Neutral:            4
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     4
  Graduate:       1               Average age:         20
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.08

                           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     83    17     0     0     0      4.83    4.84    3.68
 Difficult           22     18    27    36    14     5      3.41    3.26    3.93
 Benefitted          23     52    35     9     4     0      4.35    4.47    3.28
 Recommend           23     57    30     9     0     4      4.35    4.44    2.79

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         23     87     9     4     0     0      4.83    4.81    3.90
 Communication       23     83     0    17     0     0      4.65    4.70    3.17
 Grading             23     35    13    30     9    13      3.48    3.65    3.17
 Interesting         23     65    26     4     0     4      4.48    4.65    2.81
 Responsive          23     70    17     9     0     4      4.48    4.58    3.28
 Overall             23     74    13     9     0     4      4.52    4.60    3.21

Number of sections in course:   2

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