How Would You Rate Your Teachers in College?
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As I’ve mentioned before, I graduated with a degree in English Education. I’m happy to have received the degree. It was a challenge to find the right professors, that’s for sure. Back then, the Internet was on campus, but no one really used it. Students would communicate with each other, finding out who the best teachers were for each particular subject. We would then try to get into classes with only those instructors. That’s the way we did things back then. However, now there’s a website that can really help you if you’re a student now (or will be soon). Rate my Professors allows you to rate each of your instructors, and lets them leave feedback, as well.
RateMyProfessors.com is the Internet’s largest listing of collegiate professor ratings, with more than 6.8 million student-generated ratings of over 1 million professors. Each year, millions of college students use the site to help plan their class schedules and rate current and past professors on attributes such as helpfulness and clarity. Online since 1999, RateMyProfessors.com currently offers ratings on college and university professors from over 6,000 schools across the United States, Canada, England, Scotland and Wales with thousands of new ratings added each day.
I needed one class in order to graduate with a minor in Creative Writing. I had heard the professor for it was so bad, that I decided I didn’t want to take the class and get the degree. A good instructor can make you or break you… and can mean the difference in how much you actually learn.
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4 Comments
flip
November 26th, 2008
at 4:24am
A RMP competitor Pick-A-Prof has begun requesting from public colleges & universities “the grade distribution reports for all the professors and courses”. This request is made under the Open Public Records Act. This information is slightly less ‘biased’ since it will include actual grade distributions as opposed to the RMP method which is more qualitative than quantitative. The clever method of data acquisition and population by PAP and the availability of RMP info resets the landscape for students selecting courses.
For a student this can be particulalry advantageous in selecting distance learning courses where access to fellow students may be limited or non-existent.
Another example of the world getting smaller.
Teresa Wu
November 26th, 2008
at 4:29am
I definitely choose my quarterly schedule entirely around ratemyprofessor.com. I’d rather have early-morning class with a brilliant professor than an awesome schedule with professors who can’t hold my attention for more than five minutes.
Paul Sherman
November 26th, 2008
at 8:51am
Unfortunately, I had to work my way through, so my choices were very limited. Still some rating system would have been very helpful. In particular, one Calc1 professor was incredibly awful at teaching, and he graded on a curve. I did really awful (25% on exams), but he still gave me a B, which meant I couldn’t retake the class. I ennded up with a D for Calc2. It’s hard to learn integration, when you didn’t learn dervation.
bryan
November 26th, 2008
at 8:55am
im about to use it right now. Although tuition went up $600, I’m starting to have second thoughts.