Student Evaluation of Teaching: Spring 2006

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  MA243*E01  Discrete Probability
  Meeting: T  6:30pm-8:50pm       JEN 207

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:    29               Full-time:           26
  Respondents:   28               Part-time:            2
  Day:           26               Male:                17
    Freshman:     1               Female:              11
    Sophomore:    2               Subject interest
    Junior:       1                 Interested:        14
    Senior:      22                 Neutral:           10
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     4
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         24
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.35

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding       28     71    21     0     7     0      4.57    4.45    4.27
 Difficult           28     25    29    14    32     0      3.46    3.24    3.28
 Benefitted          28     68    21     0    11     0      4.46    4.24    3.98
 Recommend           28     54    32     4     7     4      4.25    4.20    3.93

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         28     89    11     0     0     0      4.89    4.84    4.37
 Communication       28     82    14     4     0     0      4.79    4.76    4.29
 Grading             28     68    32     0     0     0      4.68    4.69    4.35
 Interesting         28     57    32     4     4     4      4.36    4.45    4.04
 Responsive          28     71    18    11     0     0      4.61    4.65    4.23
 Overall             28     79    14     7     0     0      4.71    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