Student Evaluation of Teaching: Spring 2008

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  NASC100*E01  Astronomy: Solar System
  Meeting: T  6:00pm-9:50pm       AAC 363

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION
  Instructor:                     Aghassi, Badri M.
  Rank:                           No response
  Tenure Status:                  Tenured
  Full/Part-Time:                 Full-time
  Gender:                         Male
  Years college teaching:         43
  Years Bentley teaching:         43
  Previous terms teaching course: 4
  Course revisions:               Yes
  Special circumstances:          No

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    17               Full-time:            5
  Respondents:   11               Part-time:            6
  Day:            5               Male:                 9
    Freshman:     1               Female:               2
    Sophomore:    1               Subject interest
    Junior:       2                 Interested:         8
    Senior:       1                 Neutral:            2
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     1
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         27
                                  Avg expected grade:   2.98

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding       11     36    55     9     0     0      4.27    4.19    4.75
 Difficult           11     18    55     9     9     9      3.64    3.54    3.59
 Benefitted          11     36    36     9    18     0      3.91    3.85    4.50
 Recommend           11     27    45    18     9     0      3.91    3.65    4.48

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         11     36    45    18     0     0      4.18    4.15    4.93
 Communication       11     27    18    18    36     0      3.36    3.54    4.82
 Grading             10     20    30    40    10     0      3.60    3.92    3.82
 Interesting         11     18    18    55     9     0      3.45    3.42    4.57
 Responsive          11     27    18    45     9     0      3.64    4.04    4.70
 Overall             11     18    27    45     9     0      3.55    3.81    4.64

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