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Overall Summary Spring 2005

  Percent Choosing Each Response Avg. No. Replies
This Item
  Str Disag Disagree Neutral Agree Str Agree    
1 DISC. AND LECTURE SEGMENTS INTEGRATED 1 3 6 43 48 4.3 3070
2 DISCUSSION SESSIONS INTERESTING 2 8 19 39 31 3.9 3065
3 DISC. AIDED UNDERSTANDING LECT. CONTENT 1 4 12 40 43 4.2 3050
4 ADEQUATE DISCUSSION OF LECTURE CONTENT 1 6 13 45 35 4.1 3067
5 DISC. HELPED CLARIFY READINGS, LECTURES 1 3 12 43 42 4.2 3057
6 OBJECTIVES OF DISC. SECTION CARRIED OUT 0 2 10 44 45 4.3 3053
7 HANDLED PROBLEMS, QUESTIONS EFFECTIVELY 1 2 7 41 49 4.4 3065
8 RAISED CHALLENGING QUESTIONS 1 3 16 42 38 4.1 3052
9 GUIDED DISCUSSION RATHER THAN LECTURED 1 4 14 41 40 4.1 3058
10 DISCUSSION LEADER SPOKE OFTEN ENOUGH 0 2 10 46 42 4.3 3049
11 OUTSIDE DISCUSSIONS OF HELP TO STUDENT 0 2 21 33 44 4.2 3014
12 ENCOURAGED BROAD STUDENT PARTICIPATION 1 6 19 39 35 4.0 3038
13 DEMONSTRATED ABILITY TO CONDUCT DISC. 1 2 11 43 43 4.3 3040
14 RIGHT AMOUNT OF STRUCTURE AND GUIDANCE 1 3 12 45 39 4.2 3054
15 TESTS AND PAPERS ADEQUATELY DISCUSSED 1 6 15 39 39 4.1 3045
  Vry Unimp Mod Unimp Avg Imprt Mod Imprt Vry Imprt    
16 DISC. SECTION CONTRIBUTION TO COURSE 5 10 19 32 34 3.8 3018
  Poor Below Avg Average Very Good Excellent    
17 GENERAL ATTITUDE, PREPAREDNESS OF CLASS 2 11 50 28 8   3001
  Much More
Theor
More
Theoretic
Equally
Thry-Prac
More
Practical
Much More
Pract
   
18 DISC. THEORETICAL OR PRACTICAL 5 15 48 20 11   2938
  W Bel Avg Below Avg Average Above Avg W Abv Avg    
19 STUDENT ATTITUDE, PREPAREDNESS IN CLASS 1 9 55 28 7   2998
20 STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN CLASS 3 14 49 26 9   3003
  Far Less Less Than As Expctd More Than Far More    
21 AMOUNT LEARNED COMPARED TO EXPECTATIONS 2 9 44 35 9   3000

CLASS SIZE DISTRIBUTION FOR AN N OF 233 CLASSES:
1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 51-60 61-70 71-80 81-90 91-100 101-150 151-200 201+
72 141 19 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0