Student Evaluation of Teaching: Fall 2008

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  NASC140*002  Basic Physics: Princ & App
  Meeting: M  3:35pm-4:50pm       JEN 119
           W  2:10pm-4:50pm       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:    23               Full-time:           21
  Respondents:   21               Part-time:            0
  Day:           21               Male:                13
    Freshman:     0               Female:               8
    Sophomore:    8               Subject interest
    Junior:       9                 Interested:        10
    Senior:       4                 Neutral:            6
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     5
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         20
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.35

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding       21     33    57     5     5     0      4.19    4.11    4.09
 Difficult           21     29    29    19    24     0      3.62    3.50    3.36
 Benefitted          21     29    33    29    10     0      3.81    3.87    3.93
 Recommend           21     38    24    29    10     0      3.90    4.02    3.98

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         21     57    43     0     0     0      4.57    4.47    4.50
 Communication       21     52    33    14     0     0      4.38    4.37    4.29
 Grading             21     43    24    29     5     0      4.05    3.97    4.04
 Interesting         21     38    29    33     0     0      4.05    4.10    4.08
 Responsive          21     52    38    10     0     0      4.43    4.24    4.31
 Overall             21     52    24    24     0     0      4.29    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