Student Evaluation of Teaching: Spring 2006

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  PHY240*001  Basic Physics: Prin & App
  Meeting: M  11:20am-2:00pm      JEN 119
           W  11:20am-12:35pm     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:         5
  Years Bentley teaching:         5
  Previous terms teaching course: 5-10
  Course revisions:               No
  Special circumstances:          No

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    24               Full-time:           21
  Respondents:   21               Part-time:            0
  Day:           21               Male:                16
    Freshman:     0               Female:               5
    Sophomore:   18               Subject interest
    Junior:       2                 Interested:         9
    Senior:       1                 Neutral:            9
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     3
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         20
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.49

                           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     43    52     5     0     0      4.38    4.17    3.90
 Difficult           21     10    33    24    24    10      3.10    3.14    3.00
 Benefitted          21     43    33    19     0     5      4.10    4.01    3.78
 Recommend           21     52    38     5     5     0      4.38    4.20    3.86

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         21     71    29     0     0     0      4.71    4.35    4.28
 Communication       21     52    43     5     0     0      4.48    4.14    4.05
 Grading             21     43    43    14     0     0      4.29    4.15    4.01
 Interesting         21     57    33    10     0     0      4.48    4.16    3.97
 Responsive          21     67    29     5     0     0      4.62    4.23    4.10
 Overall             21     67    33     0     0     0      4.67    4.26    4.14

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