Student Evaluation of Teaching: Fall 2008

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  NASC100*001  Astronomy: Solar System
  Meeting: T  11:20am-12:35pm     AAC 363
           R  11:20am-12:35pm     AAC 363
           F  11:20am-12:35pm     AAC 363

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION
  Instructor:                     Fishman, George Paul
  Rank:                           Instructor
  Tenure Status:                  Not Tenure Track
  Full/Part-Time:                 Full-time
  Gender:                         Male
  Years college teaching:         15
  Years Bentley teaching:         14
  Previous terms teaching course: 11 or more
  Course revisions:               No
  Special circumstances:          No

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    24               Full-time:           22
  Respondents:   22               Part-time:            0
  Day:           22               Male:                16
    Freshman:     1               Female:               6
    Sophomore:   16               Subject interest
    Junior:       4                 Interested:        17
    Senior:       1                 Neutral:            3
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     1
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         20
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.22

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding       22     95     5     0     0     0      4.95    4.88    4.56
 Difficult           22     14    41    27     9     9      3.41    3.71    3.50
 Benefitted          22     64    18    14     5     0      4.41    4.55    4.27
 Recommend           22     73    27     0     0     0      4.73    4.62    4.21

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         22    100     0     0     0     0      5.00    4.98    4.66
 Communication       22     95     5     0     0     0      4.95    4.90    4.34
 Grading             22     64    14    18     5     0      4.36    4.36    3.79
 Interesting         22     68    27     5     0     0      4.64    4.60    4.23
 Responsive          22     77    23     0     0     0      4.77    4.86    4.45
 Overall             22     82    18     0     0     0      4.82    4.79    4.27

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