Student Evaluation of Teaching: Spring 2008

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  NASC140*002  Basic Physics: Princ & App
  Meeting: M  3:35pm-4:50pm       JEN 119
           W  2:10pm-4:50pm       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:         7
  Years Bentley teaching:         7
  Previous terms teaching course: 11 or more
  Course revisions:               No
  Special circumstances:          No

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    24               Full-time:           21
  Respondents:   21               Part-time:            0
  Day:           21               Male:                14
    Freshman:     0               Female:               7
    Sophomore:   10               Subject interest
    Junior:       8                 Interested:        10
    Senior:       3                 Neutral:           10
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     1
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         20
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.39

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding       21     33    38    24     0     5      3.95    4.19    3.98
 Difficult           21     14    33    24    19    10      3.24    3.36    3.36
 Benefitted          21     14    52    10    14    10      3.48    4.05    3.80
 Recommend           21     24    48    14     5    10      3.71    4.10    3.85

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         21     52    33    10     0     5      4.29    4.60    4.38
 Communication       21     52    43     0     0     5      4.38    4.53    4.04
 Grading             21     33    24    29    14     0      3.76    4.14    3.95
 Interesting         21     19    52    19     5     5      3.76    4.16    4.00
 Responsive          21     48    38    10     0     5      4.24    4.52    4.09
 Overall             21     52    33    10     0     5      4.29    4.45    4.11

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