I'M ****** OFF!!!!!!

llg, PhD, RN · Apr 8, 2009

It could be because they don't have their teaching assignments set yet. As school budges are being slashed, schools are scrambling to find faculty. At many schools, it is common for teaching assignments to not be finalized until just a couple of weeks before class. The school may feel it is better to post no information than to post information that might be changed at the last minute.

I can understand your frustration. Most people would like to include information about the instructor in their decision as to whether or not they want to take a class. But the reason behind the change in practice might not be as "evil" as you think. It might be as simply as "They don't know who is teaching what course yet."

libnat · Apr 8, 2009

i have heard of schools who will not release grade statistics, pass rates, ect on their professors so you can't choose that way but never one who wont even tell you the professor your getting till your signed up.

check back later, some times they don't put the professors up till the last minute, mine just came up two days ago but i had to choose on times anyway so it hardly mattered.

Boog'sCRRN246, RN · Apr 8, 2009

What did people do before ratemyprofessor.com existed? :icon_roll

~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN · Apr 8, 2009

I have never used RMP, I always pick the teacher that has the class schedule that works best for me and I take my odds with the teacher, unless a few friends have really talked highly about a teacher. Even then I have to pick the one that best fits my schedule. I just heard about RMP the other day and went and checked past professors on it and it was so far off base on my past professors. My current ones aren't even listed on there.

I guess I am of no help, to me, you are paying to get a good education, not for a popular easy teacher.

libnat · Apr 8, 2009

I guess I am of no help, to me, you are paying to get a good education, not for a popular easy teacher.

Maybe, but a good teacher can make a huge difference on whether or not you get that good education. I'd rather stack the odds in my favor to the greatest extent possible.

ccjus123 · Apr 8, 2009

Maybe, but a good teacher can make a huge difference on whether or not you get that good education. I'd rather stack the odds in my favor to the greatest extent possible.

-EXACTLY - and with CUNY schools (City University Of New York) because it's cheap sometimes you get the professors that just don't care.

~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN · Apr 8, 2009

Maybe, but a good teacher can make a huge difference on whether or not you get that good education. I'd rather stack the odds in my favor to the greatest extent possible.

A good teacher can, not necessarily an easy one. Not to mention with RMP it's all a matter of perception and the individual student. I have a Chemistry Professor. He was an excellent teacher, he was hard, the class was hard, but his methods worked and stuck with you. He was ALWAYS their is you needed help, tutoring and what not. He WANTED kids to do well.

I checked him out on RMP the other day and he had so many bad reviews because his class was hard. They said he was mean and unfriendly and just wanted his students to fail. BS! I BARELY got a C in that class. It was NOT the instructors fault. He was a good instructor and I wish I would have taken more advantage of the resourses he offered but I was distracted and had a lot going on and my focus wasn't where it should have been. Their was NOTHING he could have done more. He was also equal and fair. Yet because other students didn't do well and I would be willing to bet did not put in their all, they were bashing who HE was. Saying his class was to hard that he wanted people to fail and so on.

My A&P 2 professor I picked because everyone told me how great he was. He was, he was one of the friendliest professors I had. The day before an exam he would have us play jeporday in class, he used actual answers from the test and you could take notes. If you went to class the day before their is no excuse for you not to get an A on the exam because you were given all the answers. I don't think anyone that put in a little effort failed the class. He cared so much about us and was just a wonderful person NO DOUBT. I go check him on RMP the other day and he had nothing but good reviews. There was one that stood out. The student said they aggreed what a wonderful teacher BUT because he made class SO EASY none of the stuff stuck. That really hit me because she was absolutely right. Here I sit taking Micro and taking Patho and my teacher keeps saying, refer back to A&P and remember when you went over this and that. I didn't do A&P at my current college where I take Patho and I find myself so lost. I don't remember ANY of it. I didn't have Anatomy in HS so my college class was my first introduction to it. I have to do so much studying on my own to catch up with stuff I SHOULD ALREADY KNOW. Had the professor made the class a little more challenging and made us have to EARN our grade I have no doubt that I would have absorbed more.

So I reiterate, a Good teacher is not always an easy teacher or a popular teacher. What a lot of students consider a GOOD teacher might not equal a GOOD education.

Sadly it seems we live in a time where it's all about taking the easy way out.

Cilantrophobe · Apr 8, 2009

I guess I am of no help, to me, you are paying to get a good education, not for a popular easy teacher.

I disagree with your viewpoint. I don't think people are looking for an easy teacher, they are looking for a good teacher.

I agree that wonderful teachers who teach hard courses are rated unfairly on RMP. But those bad ratings seem to be few and far between for some of my instructors.

I thank God for RMP, I build my education around it, and it has paid off.

Ang_1 · Apr 8, 2009

When I took A&PI, I took it based on recommendations on rateyourprofessor. All the feedback was positive, easy A, etc etc. Well come to find out the A was easy because she was never there, all the tests were given before hand and all we had to do was find the answer and then have the test the following week. I learn't absolutely NOTHING in A&PI and in the first few weeks "actual" students were dropping because they figured this teacher wasn't any good. Unfortunately when I wanted to drop all the other classes for my time slot were full. I had to go back and reteach myself in A&PI and had some make-up to do when I took A&PII - with a different teacher! Her class sucked and we all made A's!! Yayaa (**insert sarcasm here**) Maybe not knowing isn't such a bad thing.....just a thought. Good luck!

Atheos · Apr 8, 2009

I disagree with your viewpoint. I don't think people are looking for an easy teacher, they are looking for a good teacher.
I agree that wonderful teachers who teach hard courses are rated unfairly on RMP. But those bad ratings seem to be few and far between for some of my instructors.
I thank God for RMP, I build my education around it, and it has paid off.

Students are the least qualified to 'pick' a good teacher.

First off, it's TOTALLY subjective. Secondly, some consider good to equal easy while others consider good to equal challenging. Lastly, how many consider a good teacher to be the one with the nicest personality???

Your best teacher is not my best teacher.

PacoUSA, BSN, RN · Apr 8, 2009

What did people do before ratemyprofessor.com existed? :icon_roll

I feel old ... because I can answer this question :) ... we used to actually "talk" with our classmates and get info on who was good or lousy :lol:

Seriously, if this is REALLY an effort to distribute students more evenly and fairly among the faculty on the basis of this website, you wanna question the scruples of the administration and the quality of education they are ultimately offer. I would rather sacrifice, jump hurdles and travel further for a better education than put up with that kind of nonsense.