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Evaluations at a glance

Across three terms as instructor of record at Creighton and Texas Tech, students have rated my teaching and courses consistently in the top end of each instrument’s scale, with response rates at or near 100% in every section. The numbers below are means across enrolled-weighted sections. Complete evaluation packets are linked at the bottom of the page.

Creighton University

Items rated on a 1–5 scale (Definitely FalseDefinitely True for instructor and course ratings; Very unlikelyVery likely for the recommendation item). Means are weighted across the two sections in each term.

Term Course Response
rate
“Excellent
teacher”
“Course is
excellent”
“Recommend
to a friend”
Spring 2026 ECO 205 Introductory Macroeconomics
2 sections
54 / 55 · 98% 4.50 4.07 4.55
Fall 2025 ECO 203 Introductory Microeconomics
2 sections
45 / 45 · 100% 4.43 4.05 4.58

Detailed teaching procedures, Creighton

Items rated Hardly EverAlmost Always on a 1–5 scale. Each cell is the enrolled-weighted mean across that term’s sections.

Teaching procedure Spring 2026
ECO 205
Fall 2025
ECO 203
Displayed personal interest in students and their learning4.524.38
Found ways to help students answer their own questions4.314.15
Demonstrated the importance and significance of the subject matter4.544.60
Made it clear how each topic fit into the course4.444.40
Explained course material clearly and concisely4.224.18
Introduced stimulating ideas about the subject4.354.31
Inspired students to set and achieve goals which really challenged them4.094.02

Texas Tech University

Texas Tech uses a different instrument (1–5, Strongly DisagreeStrongly Agree) and reports per-item rather than per-section. Headline items for Applied Business Economics (BECO 3310), Fall 2023:

Item n Mean
Course was a valuable learning experience134.3
Overall instructor effectiveness124.3
Instructor followed course objectives114.5

Full evaluation packets

The combined PDF below contains the full quantitative reports and the complete set of anonymous qualitative comments for every term, in chronological order, exactly as released by the respective universities.

Download full evaluations (PDF)

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