Student Evaluation of Teaching: Spring 2009

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:         8
  Years Bentley teaching:         8
  Previous terms teaching course: 11 or more
  Course revisions:               No
  Special circumstances:          No

SUMMARY STUDENT DATA
  Enrollment:    24               Full-time:           22
  Respondents:   23               Part-time:            0
  Day:           23               Male:                17
    Freshman:     3               Female:               6
    Sophomore:   12               Subject interest
    Junior:       7                 Interested:         7
    Senior:       1                 Neutral:           14
  Evening:        0                 Not interested:     1
  Graduate:       0               Average age:         20
                                  Avg expected grade:   3.46

                           Percentages of Responses               Means
                         -----------------------------   -----------------------
COURSE            Total  SA(5)  A(4)  N(3)  D(2) SD(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Understanding       22     27    55    14     5     0      4.05    4.03    4.10
 Difficult           22      9    36    23    27     5      3.18    3.12    3.41
 Benefitted          22      9    50    27    14     0      3.55    3.66    3.91
 Recommend           22     27    41    32     0     0      3.95    4.09    3.99

INSTRUCTOR        Total   E(5) AA(4) AV(3) BA(2)  U(1)   Section  Course    2yrs
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 Preparation         22     41    41    14     5     0      4.18    4.26    4.49
 Communication       22     45    36     9     9     0      4.18    4.14    4.32
 Grading             22     27    50     9     5     9      3.82    4.02    4.02
 Interesting         22     32    41    23     5     0      4.00    4.12    4.09
 Responsive          22     36    41    18     5     0      4.09    4.14    4.29
 Overall             22     41    41    14     5     0      4.18    4.22    4.29

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