Student Evaluation of Teaching: Fall 2005

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  LIT311*001  Creative Writing--Fiction
  Meeting: M  3:35pm-4:50pm       SMI 119
           W  3:35pm-4:50pm       SMI 119

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION
  Instructor:                     Butler, Pierce 
  Rank:                           Assistant Professor
  Tenure Status:                  Not Tenure Track
  Full/Part-Time:                 Part-time
  Gender:                         Male
  Years college teaching:         27
  Years Bentley teaching:         17
  Previous terms teaching course: 11 or more
  Course revisions:               No
  Special circumstances:          No

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    15               Full-time:           13
  Respondents:   13               Part-time:            0
  Day:           13               Male:                 9
    Freshman:     0               Female:               4
    Sophomore:    6               Subject interest
    Junior:       5                 Interested:         9
    Senior:       2                 Neutral:            4
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     0
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         21
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.42

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding       13     31    62     8     0     0      4.23    4.33    4.41
 Difficult           13      0    46    23    23     8      3.08    3.25    3.21
 Benefitted          13     38    54     8     0     0      4.31    4.29    4.43
 Recommend           13     38    54     8     0     0      4.31    4.33    4.50

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         13     46    46     8     0     0      4.38    4.42    4.50
 Communication       13     38    62     0     0     0      4.38    4.38    4.49
 Grading             13     31    15    38     8     8      3.54    3.79    3.81
 Interesting         13     31    23    46     0     0      3.85    4.00    4.09
 Responsive          13     31    54    15     0     0      4.15    4.17    4.42
 Overall             13     46    38    15     0     0      4.31    4.38    4.44

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