Student Evaluation of Teaching: Spring 2008

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  LIT311*001  Creative Writing--Fiction
  Meeting: M  11:20am-12:35pm     JEN 213
           W  11:20am-12:35pm     JEN 213

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION
  Instructor:                     Butler, Pierce 
  Rank:                           Assistant Professor
  Tenure Status:                  Not Tenure Track
  Full/Part-Time:                 Part-time
  Gender:                         Male
  Years college teaching:         30
  Years Bentley teaching:         21
  Previous terms teaching course: 11 or more
  Course revisions:               No
  Special circumstances:          Yes

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    15               Full-time:           15
  Respondents:   15               Part-time:            0
  Day:           15               Male:                 8
    Freshman:     4               Female:               7
    Sophomore:    8               Subject interest
    Junior:       2                 Interested:        10
    Senior:       1                 Neutral:            4
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     1
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         19
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.24

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding       15     33    47    13     7     0      4.07    4.41    4.55
 Difficult           14      7    29    21    36     7      2.93    3.00    3.18
 Benefitted          15     33    53    13     0     0      4.20    4.48    4.47
 Recommend           15     33    60     0     0     7      4.13    4.46    4.44

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         15     47    33    20     0     0      4.27    4.59    4.50
 Communication       15     40    47     7     7     0      4.20    4.52    4.48
 Grading             15     27     0    53    13     7      3.27    3.89    3.96
 Interesting         15     27    27    40     7     0      3.73    4.19    4.17
 Responsive          15     33    53     7     7     0      4.13    4.44    4.41
 Overall             14     29    50    14     0     7      3.93    4.38    4.45

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