Student Evaluation of Teaching: Fall 2008

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  PH101*006  Problems of Philosophy
  Meeting: M  5:00pm-6:15pm       JEN 308
           W  5:00pm-6:15pm       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:    22               Full-time:           19
  Respondents:   19               Part-time:            0
  Day:           19               Male:                15
    Freshman:    14               Female:               4
    Sophomore:    3               Subject interest
    Junior:       2                 Interested:         8
    Senior:       0                 Neutral:           10
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     1
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         19
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.67

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding       17     59    41     0     0     0      4.59    4.18    4.05
 Difficult           17      0    18    47    29     6      2.76    3.07    3.14
 Benefitted          17     24    71     6     0     0      4.18    3.92    3.83
 Recommend           17     65    29     6     0     0      4.59    3.92    3.79

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         17     47    53     0     0     0      4.47    4.20    4.05
 Communication       17     53    41     6     0     0      4.47    4.03    3.88
 Grading             17     65    35     0     0     0      4.65    4.14    3.99
 Interesting         17     47    41     6     6     0      4.29    3.74    3.66
 Responsive          17     47    47     6     0     0      4.41    4.11    4.00
 Overall             17     65    29     6     0     0      4.59    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