Student Evaluation of Teaching: Spring 2005

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:               No
  Special circumstances:          No

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    24               Full-time:           19
  Respondents:   19               Part-time:            0
  Day:           19               Male:                14
    Freshman:     1               Female:               5
    Sophomore:   17               Subject interest
    Junior:       1                 Interested:         5
    Senior:       0                 Neutral:           11
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     2
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         20
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.56

                           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     37    58     5     0     0      4.32    4.01    3.96
 Difficult           19      5    32    26    32     5      3.00    3.05    3.16
 Benefitted          19     37    58     5     0     0      4.32    3.79    3.80
 Recommend           19     37    58     5     0     0      4.32    3.82    3.85

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         19     74    26     0     0     0      4.74    4.28    4.25
 Communication       19     63    32     5     0     0      4.58    3.95    4.07
 Grading             19     53    26    21     0     0      4.32    3.79    3.89
 Interesting         19     58    42     0     0     0      4.58    3.95    3.95
 Responsive          19     63    37     0     0     0      4.63    4.03    4.05
 Overall             19     68    32     0     0     0      4.68    4.05    4.10

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