Student Evaluation of Teaching: Fall 2008

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  NASC140*001  Basic Physics: Princ & App
  Meeting: M  9:55am-12:35pm      JEN 119
           W  11:20am-12:35pm     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:               Yes
  Special circumstances:          No

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    24               Full-time:           20
  Respondents:   20               Part-time:            0
  Day:           20               Male:                14
    Freshman:     1               Female:               6
    Sophomore:    9               Subject interest
    Junior:       8                 Interested:        13
    Senior:       2                 Neutral:            5
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     2
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         20
                                  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       20     35    50     5    10     0      4.10    4.11    4.09
 Difficult           20     35    45    20     0     0      4.15    3.50    3.36
 Benefitted          20     25    50    20     0     5      3.90    3.87    3.93
 Recommend           20     25    50    20     5     0      3.95    4.02    3.98

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         20     65    25    10     0     0      4.55    4.47    4.50
 Communication       20     60    30    10     0     0      4.50    4.37    4.29
 Grading             20     25    25    35    15     0      3.60    3.97    4.04
 Interesting         20     25    50    25     0     0      4.00    4.10    4.08
 Responsive          20     45    35    20     0     0      4.25    4.24    4.31
 Overall             20     45    45    10     0     0      4.35    4.31    4.28

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