Student Evaluation of Teaching: Fall 2008

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  PH101*005  Problems of Philosophy
  Meeting: M  3:35pm-4:50pm       JEN 308
           W  3:35pm-4:50pm       JEN 308

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION
  Instructor:                     Tressler, Nikolaus A
  Rank:                           Assistant Professor
  Tenure Status:                  Not Tenure Track
  Full/Part-Time:                 Part-time
  Gender:                         Male
  Years college teaching:         3
  Years Bentley teaching:         1
  Previous terms teaching course: 1
  Course revisions:               Yes
  Special circumstances:          No

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    30               Full-time:           27
  Respondents:   28               Part-time:            0
  Day:           28               Male:                13
    Freshman:    23               Female:              14
    Sophomore:    4               Subject interest
    Junior:       1                 Interested:        12
    Senior:       0                 Neutral:           10
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     5
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         18
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.50

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding       28     36    43     7    11     4      3.96    4.18    4.05
 Difficult           28      4    36    21    36     4      3.00    3.07    3.14
 Benefitted          28     18    43    25    11     4      3.61    3.92    3.83
 Recommend           28     25    39    21     7     7      3.68    3.92    3.79

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         28     25    57    18     0     0      4.07    4.20    4.05
 Communication       28     29    54    11     7     0      4.04    4.03    3.88
 Grading             28     39    32    29     0     0      4.11    4.14    3.99
 Interesting         28     14    43    25    14     4      3.50    3.74    3.66
 Responsive          28     25    43    21    11     0      3.82    4.11    4.00
 Overall             28     43    32    14    11     0      4.07    4.13    3.97

Number of sections in course:  21

SA=Strongly Agree, A=Agree, N=Neutral, D=Disagree, SD=Strongly Disagree
E=Excellent, AA=Above Average, AV=Average, BA=Below Average, U=Unsatisfactory