Student Evaluation of Teaching: Spring 2006

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  PH101*011  Problems of Philosophy
  Meeting: T  11:20am-12:35pm     JEN 308
           F  11:20am-12:35pm     JEN 308

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION
  Instructor:                     Smith, Lorne A.
  Rank:                           Assistant Professor
  Tenure Status:                  Not Tenure Track
  Full/Part-Time:                 Part-time
  Gender:                         Male
  Years college teaching:         20
  Years Bentley teaching:         15
  Previous terms teaching course: 11 or more
  Course revisions:               No
  Special circumstances:          No

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    26               Full-time:           24
  Respondents:   24               Part-time:            0
  Day:           24               Male:                15
    Freshman:    22               Female:               9
    Sophomore:    0               Subject interest
    Junior:       1                 Interested:         4
    Senior:       0                 Neutral:           17
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     3
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         19
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.22

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding       24     50    42     0     8     0      4.33    3.87    4.04
 Difficult           24     38    50     8     4     0      4.21    3.28    3.21
 Benefitted          24     42    42     8     8     0      4.17    3.64    3.84
 Recommend           24     38    38    17     8     0      4.04    3.60    3.81

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         24     29    38    33     0     0      3.96    3.91    4.07
 Communication       24     38    33    25     4     0      4.04    3.68    3.95
 Grading             24     25    42    21    13     0      3.79    3.85    3.94
 Interesting         24     29    38    29     4     0      3.92    3.49    3.70
 Responsive          24     29    50    17     4     0      4.04    3.85    4.03
 Overall             23     26    35    39     0     0      3.87    3.76    4.00

Number of sections in course:  19

SA=Strongly Agree, A=Agree, N=Neutral, D=Disagree, SD=Strongly Disagree
E=Excellent, AA=Above Average, AV=Average, BA=Below Average, U=Unsatisfactory