Student Evaluation of Teaching: Spring 2007

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:         6
  Years Bentley teaching:         6
  Previous terms teaching course: 11 or more
  Course revisions:               No
  Special circumstances:          No

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    24               Full-time:           22
  Respondents:   22               Part-time:            0
  Day:           22               Male:                14
    Freshman:     2               Female:               8
    Sophomore:   13               Subject interest
    Junior:       7                 Interested:        11
    Senior:       0                 Neutral:           10
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     1
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         20
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.57

                           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     23    68     5     5     0      4.09    3.87    3.96
 Difficult           22     18    41    32     9     0      3.68    3.41    3.01
 Benefitted          22     23    64     5     9     0      4.00    3.66    3.84
 Recommend           22     45    41     5     5     5      4.18    3.87    3.96

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         22     50    45     5     0     0      4.45    4.16    4.26
 Communication       22     41    55     5     0     0      4.36    4.02    3.99
 Grading             22     55    32    14     0     0      4.41    4.23    4.01
 Interesting         22     64    32     0     5     0      4.55    3.98    3.98
 Responsive          22     55    36     9     0     0      4.45    4.00    4.09
 Overall             22     64    27     9     0     0      4.55    4.08    4.09

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