Student Evaluation of Teaching: Spring 2008

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  PH101*008  Problems of Philosophy
  Meeting: M  5:00pm-6:15pm       JEN 400
           W  5:00pm-6:15pm       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:           26
  Respondents:   26               Part-time:            0
  Day:           26               Male:                19
    Freshman:    26               Female:               7
    Sophomore:    0               Subject interest
    Junior:       0                 Interested:         5
    Senior:       0                 Neutral:           16
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     5
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         19
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.27

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding       25     40    32     4    12    12      3.76    4.05    4.00
 Difficult           25     20    32    32    12     4      3.52    3.10    3.18
 Benefitted          25     40    28    12     8    12      3.76    3.79    3.79
 Recommend           25     48    20    20     4     8      3.96    3.88    3.72

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         25     44    40    12     0     4      4.20    4.07    4.01
 Communication       25     44    40     4     8     4      4.12    3.94    3.82
 Grading             25     52    28    16     0     4      4.24    4.13    3.92
 Interesting         25     44    32     8    12     4      4.00    3.70    3.60
 Responsive          24     54    25    17     0     4      4.25    4.02    3.96
 Overall             25     52    28    16     0     4      4.24    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