Student Evaluation of Teaching: Spring 2008

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  PH101*005  Problems of Philosophy
  Meeting: M  3:35pm-4:50pm       JEN 400
           W  3:35pm-4:50pm       JEN 400

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION
  Instructor:                     Tressler, Nikolaus A
  Rank:                           Assistant Professor
  Tenure Status:                  Not Tenure Track
  Full/Part-Time:                 Part-time
  Gender:                         Male
  Years college teaching:         2
  Years Bentley teaching:         1
  Previous terms teaching course: Never
  Course revisions:               No
  Special circumstances:          No

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    31               Full-time:           21
  Respondents:   24               Part-time:            1
  Day:           23               Male:                14
    Freshman:    20               Female:               8
    Sophomore:    1               Subject interest
    Junior:       2                 Interested:         6
    Senior:       0                 Neutral:           10
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     6
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         19
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.47

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding       24     21    63    17     0     0      4.04    4.05    4.00
 Difficult           24      4    17    42    33     4      2.83    3.10    3.18
 Benefitted          24     21    46    29     4     0      3.83    3.79    3.79
 Recommend           24     25    63    13     0     0      4.13    3.88    3.72

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         24     29    38    33     0     0      3.96    4.07    4.01
 Communication       24     29    54    17     0     0      4.13    3.94    3.82
 Grading             24     33    42    25     0     0      4.08    4.13    3.92
 Interesting         24     21    50    29     0     0      3.92    3.70    3.60
 Responsive          24     33    46    21     0     0      4.13    4.02    3.96
 Overall             24     38    50    13     0     0      4.25    4.09    3.89

Number of sections in course:  18

SA=Strongly Agree, A=Agree, N=Neutral, D=Disagree, SD=Strongly Disagree
E=Excellent, AA=Above Average, AV=Average, BA=Below Average, U=Unsatisfactory