Student Evaluation of Teaching: Spring 2009

COURSE INFORMATION
  Course:  LIT311*002  Creative Writing--Fiction
  Meeting: M  3:35pm-4:50pm       JEN 411
           W  3:35pm-4:50pm       JEN 411

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION
  Instructor:                     Butler, Pierce 
  Rank:                           Assistant Professor
  Tenure Status:                  Not Tenure Track
  Full/Part-Time:                 Part-time
  Gender:                         Male
  Years college teaching:         30
  Years Bentley teaching:         22
  Previous terms teaching course: 11 or more
  Course revisions:               No
  Special circumstances:          No response

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    14               Full-time:           12
  Respondents:   12               Part-time:            0
  Day:           11               Male:                 8
    Freshman:     1               Female:               3
    Sophomore:    6               Subject interest
    Junior:       2                 Interested:         9
    Senior:       2                 Neutral:            3
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     0
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         20
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.54

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding       12     17    83     0     0     0      4.17    4.24    4.49
 Difficult           12      0    25    33    33     8      2.75    2.95    2.99
 Benefitted          12     33    67     0     0     0      4.33    4.38    4.52
 Recommend           12     25    58    17     0     0      4.08    4.05    4.49

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         12     50    17    33     0     0      4.17    4.29    4.57
 Communication       12     42    50     8     0     0      4.33    4.24    4.53
 Grading             12      0    50    50     0     0      3.50    3.71    4.06
 Interesting         12     25    50    25     0     0      4.00    3.95    4.21
 Responsive          11     27    55    18     0     0      4.09    4.15    4.44
 Overall             12     33    58     8     0     0      4.25    4.19    4.47

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