Student Evaluation of Teaching: Fall 2005

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  AST200*001  Intro to the Solar System
  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:                           Instructor
  Tenure Status:                  Not Tenure Track
  Full/Part-Time:                 Full-time
  Gender:                         Male
  Years college teaching:         12
  Years Bentley teaching:         11
  Previous terms teaching course: 11 or more
  Course revisions:               No
  Special circumstances:          No

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    21               Full-time:           21
  Respondents:   21               Part-time:            0
  Day:           21               Male:                12
    Freshman:     0               Female:               9
    Sophomore:   12               Subject interest
    Junior:       5                 Interested:        15
    Senior:       4                 Neutral:            5
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     1
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         20
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.29

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding       21     90    10     0     0     0      4.90    4.56    4.56
 Difficult           21     10    33    33    10    14      3.14    3.22    3.34
 Benefitted          21     71    29     0     0     0      4.71    4.34    4.29
 Recommend           21     86    14     0     0     0      4.86    4.16    4.21

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         21     95     5     0     0     0      4.95    4.57    4.74
 Communication       21     86    14     0     0     0      4.86    4.37    4.61
 Grading             21     71    19    10     0     0      4.62    4.25    3.83
 Interesting         21     90    10     0     0     0      4.90    4.19    4.46
 Responsive          21     86    10     5     0     0      4.81    4.39    4.47
 Overall             21     95     5     0     0     0      4.95    4.44    4.51

Number of sections in course:   3

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