Student Evaluation of Teaching: Fall 2008

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  LIT311*001  Creative Writing--Fiction
  Meeting: M  3:35pm-4:50pm       JEN 207
           W  3:35pm-4:50pm       JEN 207

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

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    10               Full-time:            9
  Respondents:    9               Part-time:            0
  Day:            9               Male:                 5
    Freshman:     0               Female:               4
    Sophomore:    2               Subject interest
    Junior:       5                 Interested:         8
    Senior:       2                 Neutral:            1
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     0
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         20
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.54

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding        9     56    33    11     0     0      4.44    4.47    4.55
 Difficult            9      0    33    33    33     0      3.00    2.65    3.08
 Benefitted           9     56    33    11     0     0      4.44    4.53    4.52
 Recommend            9     56    33     0    11     0      4.33    4.53    4.54

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation          9     56    11    33     0     0      4.22    4.29    4.62
 Communication        9     44    33    22     0     0      4.22    4.35    4.59
 Grading              9     33    22    44     0     0      3.89    4.06    4.06
 Interesting          9      0    89     0    11     0      3.78    4.00    4.27
 Responsive           9     33    44    22     0     0      4.11    4.35    4.50
 Overall              9     44    44    11     0     0      4.33    4.41    4.52

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