Student Evaluation of Teaching: Fall 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:                           Assistant Professor
  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:    23               Full-time:           21
  Respondents:   21               Part-time:            0
  Day:           21               Male:                13
    Freshman:     1               Female:               8
    Sophomore:   15               Subject interest
    Junior:       3                 Interested:        11
    Senior:       2                 Neutral:            9
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     1
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         20
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.52

                           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     14    71    10     5     0      3.95    3.58    3.97
 Difficult           21      0    24    19    48    10      2.57    2.89    3.12
 Benefitted          21     10    62    19    10     0      3.71    3.60    3.81
 Recommend           21     38    48     5     5     5      4.10    3.76    3.84

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         21     67    29     5     0     0      4.62    4.15    4.27
 Communication       21     57    33     5     5     0      4.43    3.78    4.08
 Grading             21     67    14     5    10     5      4.29    4.01    3.94
 Interesting         21     52    33    10     5     0      4.33    3.72    4.00
 Responsive          21     57    38     5     0     0      4.52    3.96    4.09
 Overall             21     76    10    10     5     0      4.57    3.90    4.13

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