Comments on: How Would You Rate Your Teachers in College?

By: bryan

bryan — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:55:12 +0000

im about to use it right now. Although tuition went up $600, I’m starting to have second thoughts.

By: Paul Sherman

Paul Sherman — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:51:00 +0000

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.

By: Teresa Wu

Teresa Wu — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:29:50 +0000

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.

By: flip

flip — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:24:13 +0000

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.