Student Evaluation of Teaching: Fall 2005

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  PHY240*002  Basic Physics: Prin & App
  Meeting: M  3:35pm-4:50pm       JEN 119
           W  2:10pm-4:50pm       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:    24               Full-time:           22
  Respondents:   22               Part-time:            0
  Day:           22               Male:                15
    Freshman:     0               Female:               7
    Sophomore:   19               Subject interest
    Junior:       3                 Interested:        15
    Senior:       0                 Neutral:            6
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     1
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         19
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.72

                           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     33    52     5     5     5      4.05    3.58    3.97
 Difficult           21      5    10    43    29    14      2.62    2.89    3.12
 Benefitted          21     29    57    14     0     0      4.14    3.60    3.81
 Recommend           21     57    43     0     0     0      4.57    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     90    10     0     0     0      4.90    4.15    4.27
 Communication       21     81    14     5     0     0      4.76    3.78    4.08
 Grading             21     67    33     0     0     0      4.67    4.01    3.94
 Interesting         21     67    29     5     0     0      4.62    3.72    4.00
 Responsive          21     62    33     5     0     0      4.57    3.96    4.09
 Overall             21     76    24     0     0     0      4.76    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