Student Evaluation of Teaching: Spring 2005

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  LIT397*001  Coming of Age in America
  Meeting: M  11:20am-12:35pm     SMI 304
           W  11:20am-12:35pm     SMI 304

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION
  Instructor:                     Gillan, Jennifer L
  Rank:                           Associate Professor
  Tenure Status:                  Tenured
  Full/Part-Time:                 Full-time
  Gender:                         Female
  Years college teaching:         10
  Years Bentley teaching:         10
  Previous terms teaching course: 1
  Course revisions:               Yes
  Special circumstances:          Yes

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    26               Full-time:           23
  Respondents:   23               Part-time:            0
  Day:           23               Male:                16
    Freshman:     1               Female:               7
    Sophomore:    5               Subject interest
    Junior:       8                 Interested:        12
    Senior:       9                 Neutral:           10
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     1
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         21
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.43

                           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     26    52    13     9     0      3.96    4.34    4.44
 Difficult           23      9    17    39    35     0      3.00    2.84    2.80
 Benefitted          23     22    48    26     4     0      3.87    4.29    4.29
 Recommend           23     30    35    35     0     0      3.96    4.34    4.29

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         23     30    57     9     4     0      4.13    4.42    4.44
 Communication       23     30    43    22     4     0      4.00    4.34    4.46
 Grading             23     35    39    26     0     0      4.09    4.34    4.24
 Interesting         23     26    43    30     0     0      3.96    4.26    4.39
 Responsive          23     35    43    22     0     0      4.13    4.37    4.32
 Overall             23     26    48    26     0     0      4.00    4.34    4.40

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