Student Evaluation of Teaching: Fall 2006

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  AST200*001  Intro to the Solar System
  Meeting: M  11:20am-12:35pm     AAC 363
           T  11:20am-12:35pm     AAC 363
           W  11:20am-12:35pm     AAC 363

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION
  Instructor:                     Fishman, George Paul
  Rank:                           Instructor
  Tenure Status:                  Not Tenure Track
  Full/Part-Time:                 Full-time
  Gender:                         Male
  Years college teaching:         13
  Years Bentley teaching:         13
  Previous terms teaching course: 11 or more
  Course revisions:               No
  Special circumstances:          Yes

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    23               Full-time:           22
  Respondents:   22               Part-time:            0
  Day:           22               Male:                13
    Freshman:     0               Female:               9
    Sophomore:    5               Subject interest
    Junior:      12                 Interested:        10
    Senior:       5                 Neutral:           10
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     1
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         20
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.11

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding       22     77    23     0     0     0      4.77    4.82    4.47
 Difficult           22     14    41    27    18     0      3.50    3.47    3.41
 Benefitted          22     68    18     9     5     0      4.50    4.58    4.18
 Recommend           22     64    18     5     9     5      4.27    4.56    3.99

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         22     86     9     5     0     0      4.82    4.89    4.59
 Communication       22     77    14     9     0     0      4.68    4.78    4.31
 Grading             22     36    27    18    18     0      3.82    4.18    3.91
 Interesting         22     64    27     9     0     0      4.55    4.71    4.11
 Responsive          22     73    18     5     5     0      4.59    4.73    4.31
 Overall             22     55    27     9     5     5      4.23    4.61    4.27

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