Rate My Professor

z's playa · Jul 20, 2005

I can't do it.

But cool site.

Z

txspadequeenRN, BSN, RN · Jul 20, 2005

This is the only way I pick my teachers. I have been doing this now many semesters and it has worked great for me. I will travel 100 miles a day for a great teacher in a hard subject rather than take a bad teacher across the street. If they are not on rate my professors.com and have a good rating I dont take their class.

Fun2, BSN, RN · Jul 20, 2005

I went to that site before Micro. The instructor had 1 bad mark. By the time the summer class was over, she had around 4 bad marks.

I guess I should go do at least a nuetral mark, I did make an A in Micro even though she reads, not teaches. lol

**RosesrReder, BSN, MSN, RN** · Jul 20, 2005

I had never heard of this site but it is interesting indeed :)

I've had the wonderful luck to have good and outstanding instructors so far. I had one that was awful, but I still put him in the good category to be fair

spencesa76 · Jul 20, 2005

My psych teacher pointed this site out to us during class.

You can even put a chili pepper next to the teachers name if you think they are "hot"

Too funny.

BoonersmomRN · Jul 20, 2005

My AP+ I teacher has terrible marks...and I thought she was terrific. Tough, but terrific. I definetely knew my stuff when I left that class. Her bad remarks all say she was " impossible". That's bumpkus- I got a 100.1 %....- she was only impossible to the people who didn't feel like putting in 1/2 an effort.

However my molec. Bio teacher is in the tank...WAY in the tank...now this lady sorta deserves it...I learned a lot from her...but she was nasty personality wise which most of her remarks show.

I tried to look up my upcoming Micro teacher- he's been teaching at the school since the 70's and NO ONE has rated him! However, I have heard great things about him:)

danu3 · Jul 20, 2005

I use this site a lot. So far, it is very helpful.

I do have a few experience pointers for those who are new to it though:

* Look at the number of students who rank the prof. The more students, the more reliable it is. If it is like 1 or 2 students who did the eval, you really can't tell much about the prof.

* Don't place too much on the actual score. Look at the actual comments instead. What you are looking for is common theme(s). If more than a few student say the prof is funny, than there is a good chance the prof is funny. If most of the student say the prof is great and only a few say the prof is bad, then probably the prof is good.

* Look at the date of the rating. Sometimes prof do look at this and they change the style to improve on their teaching (the good ones anyway). So if all the bad comments are like a year ago and the good comments are recent, the prof probably made some changes.

* Take a grain of salt of extreme comments like this is the BEST prof I ever had or this is the WORST prof I ever had. Take into account you might have some very smart students who just find most things are easy and some very lazy students who finds everything hard.

* Rate the profs you have taken. The most valuable information is the comments. Give some idea what the prof look for. For example, I have one prof who repeats things a lot in lecture. It turned out when she repeats things, it is going to be on the test. It is just her way of indirectly letting the class know this is IMPORTANT. I put that on the comments and I hope it helps other students (because there were earlier comments complaining about her repeating things and obviously these students didn't pick up the reason why she repeat it).

-Dan

Fun2, BSN, RN · Jul 20, 2005

I agree, if the professor only has a couple of negative remarks, then it may be a few people that just didn't pass the class.

My A&P 1 has excellent remarks too, I just wish I could have had him for A&P 2 as well.

I use this site a lot. So far, it is very helpful.
I do have a few experience pointers for those who are new to it though:
* Look at the number of students who rank the prof. The more students, the more reliable it is. If it is like 1 or 2 students who did the eval, you really can't tell much about the prof.
* Don't place too much on the actual score. Look at the actual comments instead. What you are looking for is common theme(s). If more than a few student say the prof is funny, than there is a good chance the prof is funny. If most of the student say the prof is great and only a few say the prof is bad, then probably the prof is good.
* Look at the date of the rating. Sometimes prof do look at this and they change the style to improve on their teaching (the good ones anyway). So if all the bad comments are like a year ago and the good comments are recent, the prof probably made some changes.
* Take a grain of salt of extreme comments like this is the BEST prof I ever had or this is the WORST prof I ever had. Take into account you might have some very smart students who just find most things are easy and some very lazy students who finds everything hard.
* Rate the profs you have taken. The most valuable information is the comments. Give some idea what the prof look for. For example, I have one prof who repeats things a lot in lecture. It turned out when she repeats things, it is going to be on the test. It is just her way of indirectly letting the class know this is IMPORTANT. I put that on the comments and I hope it helps other students (because there were earlier comments complaining about her repeating things and obviously these students didn't pick up the reason why she repeat it).
-Dan

Nikki422 · Jul 20, 2005

I started actually using this site a few months ago, but have known about it for a while. I'm SO glad I looked up my profs. I was suppoused to have this fall. I was planning to take nutrition online, but the prof had several poor comments, most of them revolving around the fact that he never checks his email/never gets back to students! It's one thing for a regular professor not not check email, but it seems to me that it would be essential for an online instructor! Neeeeeeedless to say, I modified my schedule.

BenevolentOne · Jul 20, 2005

I'm so glad to hear so many other poeple have heard of this website. I just wanted to put it out there in case nobody has heard of it. I just heard of it recently. I wish I knew this before, but it's better than never! TOo bad you can't get away from the bad teachers if they are the only ones who are teaching it.

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Jul 20, 2005

I noticed the bad reviews on my future professors were from people that flunked. It came across like they were giving a bad review just because they failed, since there wasn't any other description of the negative review except for "because i flunked" (actual quote, i swear.)