Student Evaluation of Teaching: Spring 2006

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  MA243*001  Discrete Probability
  Meeting: T  3:35pm-4:50pm       SMI 320
           R  3:35pm-4:50pm       SMI 320

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION
  Instructor:                     Sorensen, Erland V.
  Rank:                           Instructor
  Tenure Status:                  Not Tenure Track
  Full/Part-Time:                 Full-time
  Gender:                         Male
  Years college teaching:         21
  Years Bentley teaching:         21
  Previous terms teaching course: 11 or more
  Course revisions:               No
  Special circumstances:          No

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    31               Full-time:           23
  Respondents:   23               Part-time:            0
  Day:           23               Male:                15
    Freshman:     0               Female:               8
    Sophomore:    2               Subject interest
    Junior:       6                 Interested:         7
    Senior:      15                 Neutral:           11
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     5
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         21
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.37

                           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     48    35    17     0     0      4.30    4.45    4.27
 Difficult           23      9    22    35    26     9      2.96    3.24    3.28
 Benefitted          23     39    30    22     4     4      3.96    4.24    3.98
 Recommend           23     48    30    13     4     4      4.13    4.20    3.93

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         23     83    13     4     0     0      4.78    4.84    4.37
 Communication       23     78    17     4     0     0      4.74    4.76    4.29
 Grading             23     78    13     9     0     0      4.70    4.69    4.35
 Interesting         23     74    13     9     4     0      4.57    4.45    4.04
 Responsive          23     78    13     9     0     0      4.70    4.65    4.23
 Overall             23     74    17     9     0     0      4.65    4.69    4.31

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