PSYC 3006

Professor Schmidt is a terrible teacher who makes an already challenging class that much worse. She is condescending and rude to her students, and adds nothing to the lecture that one couldn't get from reading the text.

I absolutely hated the teacher. She is condescending and the lectures are not very helpful. I eventually stopped going to class and taught myself everything the day before the test.

Though the class was not a fun experience, Professor Schmidt was actually a nice person. She was harsh, both on grading and lecturing, but at least she treated students in a acceptably reasonable way. I did learn something anyway.

Though the class was not a fun experience, Professor Schmidt was actually a nice person. She was harsh, both on grading and lecturing, but at least she treated students in a acceptably reasonable way. I did learn something from the class anyway. And I love my TA, Dieynaba. She is not teaching anymore though.

This class wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, given the reviews. Professor Schmidt tried to make statistics interesting, and I think she succeeded for the most part--I can't think of anything different I would have liked her to do. The iClicker extra credit actually made a difference in my grade, so I really recommend participating. Tests aren't easy, but they aren't impossible. It's true that you don't get a cheat sheet like Freeman's students do, but you do get a sheet of equations on the test, so you don't have to memorize everything. The final project sucks, but if you form a good group with a reasonable project, you'll do alright.

Jeff was fine as a TA. He was a little slow getting our papers back to us, but that was because he was TAing for a lot of labs, so it was understandable, if not ideal.

You have to take this class for the psych major, so suck it up and you'll survive. Good luck!

She just reads off her powerpoints during lecture, which she posts online. Attendance is taken every class. Concept questions found on her tests are very random. Easy to get a B.

Don't be fooled, Kathleen is not related to the professor. She is really great--funny, nice and approachable and a nice grader I think. The professor unfortunately is annoying, petty, and full of herself. Tests were really stressful because every 5 minutes she was just like hey, you have __ minutes left. And then one time she knew that we had to sign up for timeslots for the Lab section (you'll find out), and some people left slightly early and after she left, she asked the clicker question. After that I realized that she was actually kind of mean. In terms of the course material, it is what it is and she does a good job of teaching you it and her tests are fair and she does tell you basically what's on the test. I heard she was better at teaching than Freedman. I agree I think. But I really disliked this class (but if you are a Psych major you have no choice).

She is better than freeman

I would recommend this class with Schmidt since she takes efforts to make you understand the material. However, the tests can be more straight forward. It's ironic how in a class in which you learn about validity and which is taught by a professor who specializes in Item Response Theory (a scale used to measure the effectiveness of tests themselves) how ambiguous some of the test questions can be. A lot depends on how lenient your TA is since there are huge disparities between some TAs and others. If you have Siny like I did then I feel sorry for you since she grades harshly.

Schimdt is condescending, rude and comes off completely unapproachable. The content of the class is too difficult and the statistics portion is easy if you practice, she just made her concept questions more difficult than they needed to be. If you go to lecture, and do the practice problems you should be fine. Schmidt just made the class a pain to sit through.