Student Evaluation of Teaching: Spring 2007

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  PHY240*003  Basic Physics: Prin & App
  Meeting: M  3:35pm-4:50pm       JEN 119
           W  2:10pm-4:50pm       JEN 119

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION
  Instructor:                     Nichols, Steven J
  Rank:                           Instructor
  Tenure Status:                  Not Tenure Track
  Full/Part-Time:                 Full-time
  Gender:                         Male
  Years college teaching:         6
  Years Bentley teaching:         No response
  Previous terms teaching course: No response
  Course revisions:               No response
  Special circumstances:          No response

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    23               Full-time:           18
  Respondents:   19               Part-time:            0
  Day:           19               Male:                16
    Freshman:     1               Female:               2
    Sophomore:    9               Subject interest
    Junior:       7                 Interested:        10
    Senior:       2                 Neutral:            7
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     1
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         20
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.41

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding       19     26    63    11     0     0      4.16    3.87    3.96
 Difficult           19      0    47    32    16     5      3.21    3.41    3.01
 Benefitted          19     21    47    26     5     0      3.84    3.66    3.84
 Recommend           19     42    37    21     0     0      4.21    3.87    3.96

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         19     42    53     5     0     0      4.37    4.16    4.26
 Communication       19     47    42    11     0     0      4.37    4.02    3.99
 Grading             19     47    32    21     0     0      4.26    4.23    4.01
 Interesting         19     42    37    21     0     0      4.21    3.98    3.98
 Responsive          19     47    32    21     0     0      4.26    4.00    4.09
 Overall             19     58    26    16     0     0      4.42    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