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

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    24               Full-time:           23
  Respondents:   23               Part-time:            0
  Day:           23               Male:                17
    Freshman:     2               Female:               6
    Sophomore:   16               Subject interest
    Junior:       4                 Interested:        15
    Senior:       1                 Neutral:            8
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     0
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         20
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.49

                           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     39    52     9     0     0      4.30    4.02    3.87
 Difficult           23      0    30    26    39     4      2.83    2.88    3.24
 Benefitted          23     30    48    22     0     0      4.09    3.93    3.71
 Recommend           23     35    57     9     0     0      4.26    4.02    3.74

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         23     83    17     0     0     0      4.83    4.36    4.12
 Communication       23     70    26     4     0     0      4.65    4.26    3.82
 Grading             23     61    30     9     0     0      4.52    4.21    3.81
 Interesting         23     65    26     9     0     0      4.57    4.25    3.72
 Responsive          23     61    30     9     0     0      4.52    4.21    3.88
 Overall             23     74    26     0     0     0      4.74    4.36    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