Student Evaluation of Teaching: Fall 2006

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  PHY240*002  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:         6
  Previous terms teaching course: 5-10
  Course revisions:               No
  Special circumstances:          No

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    24               Full-time:           22
  Respondents:   22               Part-time:            0
  Day:           22               Male:                10
    Freshman:     2               Female:              12
    Sophomore:   14               Subject interest
    Junior:       6                 Interested:        12
    Senior:       0                 Neutral:            6
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     4
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         19
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.63

                           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     32    55     9     5     0      4.14    4.07    3.96
 Difficult           22      0    27    32    32     9      2.77    2.95    2.99
 Benefitted          22     18    59    18     5     0      3.91    3.95    3.84
 Recommend           22     27    55     9     9     0      4.00    4.07    3.96

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         22     59    27    14     0     0      4.45    4.22    4.29
 Communication       22     50    36    14     0     0      4.36    4.12    4.04
 Grading             22     41    27    27     5     0      4.05    4.12    4.04
 Interesting         22     36    45    14     5     0      4.14    4.07    4.03
 Responsive          22     41    50     9     0     0      4.32    4.16    4.11
 Overall             22     45    41    14     0     0      4.32    4.16    4.15

Number of sections in course:   3

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