Shannon Davis, Business School, for anything...avoid at all costs!

11/3/2005 2:22:22 PM

kerri fuckin mercer
subjective with grading and plays favorites.

12/13/2005 4:35:13 PM

Wait wait wait. How can one avoid CE215 taught by Chao if he's the only one (at least right now) who is teaching it?

Oh we're DOOMED! DOOOOOMED!

12/13/2005 4:58:08 PM

dr. lindsey in chemistry. told us we were stupid all semester, then agreed my average was an 80, gave me not a B-, not a C+, but a C. makin me go through all this grade change case shit, merry christmas.

12/13/2005 5:16:03 PM

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"kerri fuckin mercer subjective with grading and plays favorites."

I must have been a favorite, because I never had a problem with her.

I'd second Lunardi for ECE 302. I mean, she was actually really nice, so I hate to not recommend her... but damn, that class did suck.

Oh yeah, and Hauser wasn't much any better for ECE 302.

Don't take Silber for anything

12/13/2005 6:07:11 PM

I would not take any ECE course with Lunardi

12/13/2005 8:24:57 PM

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"Quote : "kerri fuckin mercer subjective with grading and plays favorites." "

What a case of making simple shit hard. She totally fucked me on the tests. its Com 112 for crying out loud and everyone around me was failing. WAY too tough for the simple material.

12/13/2005 10:27:13 PM

wow, i must've been one of the favorites because i made a 97 in her com110 class

12/13/2005 10:29:21 PM

Yeah, maybe that's just the difference between her COM110 classes and her COM112 classes...?

12/14/2005 12:31:31 AM

anyone know about Shaw for Eng251?

12/14/2005 12:36:19 AM

i guess so...i can't see how that would make such a difference though

12/14/2005 8:32:41 AM

They're different classes.

12/14/2005 8:46:45 AM

svstanko STFU. and ramunefaerie, are you signed up for Shaw's ENG 215 class next year. I got his syllabus and I'm thnking about dropping the class.

12/14/2005 1:35:03 PM

CSC 226- Balik

Never motivated me, never applied anything to CSC or even reality, some test problems were just out of nowhere. Sometimes she woud teach material after we had taken exams on it.

12/14/2005 2:10:09 PM

^ The problem with Balik is that she's just clueless. She also finds the one kid in the class who will ask questions when he doesn't understand it and will stop the class to make sure this one kid has the concept down. And then for the rest of the semester she will stop after explaining something to ask that kid if he/she understood.

She's a nice lady though, and will help you out. I wouldn't say avoid her at all costs, but be prepared to deal with some idiosyncracies.

12/14/2005 6:56:25 PM

Shaw-MEA 200

the worst fucking professor I've ever seen/heard of

12/14/2005 6:57:24 PM

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" Two months into the semester, and not a single thread yet ('cept for this one) about what a bitch she is. She must be getting soft (perhaps she finally read her evaluations)."

Davis is one of the most distinguished professors in COM and was recently nominated by College of Management for Distinguished Alumni Teaching Award (she already has 2/3 of most coveted teaching awards on campus). If she wins this award this year she'll be the only professor in College of Management that has all 3. You probably took a issue with her because you couldn't perform well on her exams.

As for Barnes, I don't see how she is easier because she is much more subjective in her grading. Davis uses Scantron and her exams are 100% multiple choice, Barnes (It's "Barnes" only now) does uses multiple choice, short answers, essays (no Scantron).

The benefit of Scantron tests is that the professor receive back reports of the exam that details each question. Scantron doesn't only make the grading of the exam easier, but it reports important statistics such as the difficulty index. This is used to scrutinize the exam to ensure that a certain level content validity in testing is achieved. Davis will reexamine a question if the report indicate a low difficulty index rating. Her grading is much more objective and her testing procedures are very comprehensive.

12/14/2005 7:37:21 PM

stewart for csc 316

12/14/2005 8:55:09 PM

Avoid Dr. Middleton at all costs.

He loves to play favorites.

Wait everyone knew that already. But for those of you do not know, do not take Dr. Middleton for the sake of your school soul!

12/14/2005 9:34:21 PM

Manukian for MA 242

that guy is horrible

12/14/2005 10:02:06 PM

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"Davis is one of the most distinguished professors in COM and was recently nominated by College of Management for Distinguished Alumni Teaching Award (she already has 2/3 of most coveted teaching awards on campus). If she wins this award this year she'll be the only professor in College of Management that has all 3. You probably took a issue with her because you couldn't perform well on her exams. "

I made an A in her class, thought all the tests were pretty easy.... She's still the worst professor I've had. She's perhaps the most unprofessional person I've met in college/career. She might know her stuff, but it gets lost in her seeming devotion to being a super bitch.

I had MIddleton too... he's not all that bad if you take massive amounts of notes and don't rock the boat.

12/14/2005 10:26:56 PM

Re ^x whatever - Balik isn't bad. I didnt have her for 226 but for 333, and i didnt see much of a problem. Her tests were fair, reasonable, and she was reasonably good with the material.

Rodman- CSC 226. I have no idea how he grades, but he is SO monotone I fell asleep 3/5 days of the first week of class, and proceeded to drop it to take it another semester with Bitzer (who Tiffany Barnes was helping teach that semester). If you can handle monotone, then i dont know.

Gray- English Dept- I didnt have her, but almost all my friends freshman year did. She failed way the hell too many of them and has a serious prejudice against engineers that somebody needs to have her kicked out for.

12/14/2005 10:59:38 PM

Dr. Christine Grant - any CHE course

Very unorganized, makes simple concepts more confusing, should just stick with whatever research she's doing and leave the lecturing to better instructors. I could have gotten a lot more out of my momentum and heat transfer class, but she FUBARed that shit to where I had to struggle with the material on my own. And no matter what anyone says, Bird-Stewart-Lightfoot's Transport Phenomena textbook sucks dick.

12/15/2005 12:27:34 AM

Norman Miller-Poli Sci...most annoying, hypocritical, one-sided man

12/15/2005 12:39:32 AM

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"Shaw-MEA 200"

horrible

but the 2nd half of the semester w/ Wolcott was awesome

12/19/2005 6:13:46 PM

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"You probably took a issue with her because you couldn't perform well on her exams. "

oh, please...her exams were the last thing about her class I had a problem with. My issue(s) with her were a lot more personal, so don't pretend to know something you know nothing about. I don't care if she fuckin' wins the Nobel, she's still a bitch, and you and your fellow ass-kissing SHRM members are the only ones who disagree.

[Edited on December 23, 2005 at 1:28 PM. Reason : as]

12/23/2005 1:16:26 PM

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"and you and your fellow ass-kissing SHRM members are the only ones who disagree. "

x2

drones

12/24/2005 10:08:57 AM

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"As for Barnes, I don't see how she is easier because she is much more subjective in her grading. Davis uses Scantron and her exams are 100% multiple choice, Barnes (It's "Barnes" only now) does uses multiple choice, short answers, essays (no Scantron). "

i took barnes last semester and every test/quiz was multiple choice w/ a scantron. no short answers or essays...and she gave ridiculous amounts of extra credit compared to most professors ive had who give none.

12/24/2005 11:21:28 AM

Holley for Lit/English... my worst class and worst grade in college

I hate Lit and English regardless.

12/24/2005 4:49:09 PM

How about Reavis for ENG 215?

12/27/2005 12:22:56 PM

V. Aldige for Sociology 201. She is a jerk.

12/28/2005 10:11:22 AM

Richard Bernhard, IE 311
arrogant asshole who can't teach worth shit
I know for a fact that i could have had at least a B in any other section, but his tests were ridiculously difficult.

12/28/2005 6:23:52 PM

Quote :

" Davis is one of the most distinguished professors in COM and was recently nominated by College of Management for Distinguished Alumni Teaching Award (she already has 2/3 of most coveted teaching awards on campus). If she wins this award this year she'll be the only professor in College of Management that has all 3. You probably took a issue with her because you couldn't perform well on her exams. As for Barnes, I don't see how she is easier because she is much more subjective in her grading. Davis uses Scantron and her exams are 100% multiple choice, Barnes (It's "Barnes" only now) does uses multiple choice, short answers, essays (no Scantron). The benefit of Scantron tests is that the professor receive back reports of the exam that details each question. Scantron doesn't only make the grading of the exam easier, but it reports important statistics such as the difficulty index. This is used to scrutinize the exam to ensure that a certain level content validity in testing is achieved. Davis will reexamine a question if the report indicate a low difficulty index rating. Her grading is much more objective and her testing procedures are very comprehensive."

I mean, what the hell? You sound like a professor. No student gives a damn if a professor is so elegantly "honored" if she is a total ass to be around. And I don't know what you're smoking, but I took Barnes for Fall '05 (330) and there were NEVER any short answer/essay questions. All of her tests were 100% scantron. There was ONE assignment (a 2-page paper) that she used subjective grading.

Additionally, Barnes went over EVERY exam in class and gave us extra points for "bogus" questions or one's that the majority of the class found to be "crap".

The world doesn't need any more "distinguished" teachers. Most distinguished professors got that way by researching everyday of their life and writing stupid textbooks that us poor saps have to purchase and never giving their attention to actually TEACHING their students. We need teachers that are knowledgeable and CARE about how their students learn.

I've said it before, and it's still true: FUCK this "Research 1" shit.

12/28/2005 11:58:58 PM

I wouldn't go that far. I still think State's better off than the majority of major research universities.

Never--not one single time--did I have a class taught by a TA (not counting lab sections, although in all of the labs for my major courses the actual professor was there as well). I don't think any of my friends that went to other big schools can say that.

I do agree that there are a lot of shitty teachers out there, though (*cough* MAE *cough*).

12/29/2005 12:04:49 AM

Visiting Lecturer Rebecca J. Soper - Communications

1/3/2006 2:43:12 AM

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"ve said it before, and it's still true: FUCK this "Research 1" shit."

Go to a liberal arts college.

1/3/2006 6:59:12 AM

Someone mentioned James Cook. Was that b/c hes good or bad? Ma241

1/4/2006 5:02:59 AM

if it's the same guy I know, I had him as a ta a while back and although he knows his stuff, he couldn't really explain stuff well

1/6/2006 10:01:20 AM