PSYC 3006

Terrible professor. Super rude, unbelievably paranoid and strict . The overall vibe in the classroom is just so negative. When you walk into the class and she how hard she has it because the class is big or how she doesn't understand how we can't get the material cause its so easy. She's just a negative person that is so obsessed with rules and honor. It is understandable for a professor to strictly follow honor but she takes it to a unneeded crazy level where it's just really really dumb. Calm down one time ma'am jeez. Don't recommend taking it solely because of the professor.

Let me write you an honest review about Professor Schmidt since the other reviews that I have seen are egregiously inaccurate and set the wrong precedent for the class. Yes, PSYC 3006 is a requirement for the psych major here at UVA, but it is not difficult and honestly Karen does not expect much out of you other than to know the basics. I have no idea what kind of demonic experience other people had with this class, but she is so generous about making adjustments for the class at the end of the semester that I find it ridiculous that people find this class at all difficult. She does have her own structure for how she goes over exams (e.g. you cannot take notes, you do not get to keep your exam) but it doesn't in the smallest way affect your ability for the remainder of the course because there is no final. You don't even have to read the textbook because her lectures are so thorough and cover everything for the exams. Quite frankly, she does not expect more from you than what she teaches. She even gives you a formula sheet with everything you need to know. Pay attention and attend the class and make sure you understand the concepts behind why the statistics are done and you'll have no trouble getting through this class. Best of luck!

This class is honestly not bad at all. I do not understand why people give this class and the professor such bad reviews. There isn't much material for the course and the stuff we do learn isn't hard whatsoever. Schmidt is very quirky and weird but she is a fine professor. If you study the lecture slides you will be fine because the exams are exactly what you would expect. Schmidt likes her class to be in a very specific way-- she doesn't allow phone use in class or people to have anything out when we go over the exams-- and these things aren't unreasonable. Not a bad class overall, just look over the notes before the exams (4 of them and no final) and you will be fine.

Please just don't take this class with Schmidt. She thinks she's extremely organized but in reality her set up is confusing and not worth the extra effort. You have to review the powerpoints for exams on your own time as they are never covered in class. Lab was a drag, but fairly straightforward homework. The only positive in this class is she splits the exams up into two parts, with the first portion being MUCH easier than the second so it pads your grade quite a bit. Overall, it's manageable. Schmidt herself is fine, although she can be condescending at times. As stated by others, she has very specific rules when reviewing exams and she will call you out if you break them. But this class can be much easier to understand with other professors.

I don't know why everyone is giving this class such bad reviews. I loved Prof Schmidt. She can be a little harsh if you break her rules (especially going on your phone in class) and she will call you out in front of everyone, but if you don't then she is super nice. She tries to make the material as interesting and fun as possible and she genuinely enjoys teaching statistics. She is also super smart and helpful with the material but also with career questions because she has so much experience in the field. Depending on the TA's you have, lab can go either way, but for my semester she stayed in the room and filled in the gaps they left so nothing was too confusing or vague.

I really loved taking this class this summer. I would highly recommend taking this class as a summer class if you work better in smaller groups. There was a lot of individual attention and guidance, and it was clear the professors (Schmidt AND Meyer) cared a lot about all of the students, and they modified the workload a lot to be accommodating of the virtual situation and the summer speed.

I was hesitant to take this class with Professor Schmidt based on reviews here, but let me say that Professor Schmidt is genuinely a kind person and was a great professor. She has clearly taken student feedback to heart and has adjusted her course accordingly. She understood the circumstances of COVID and how it affected everyone's lives and made her class much more manageable. She made our lowest exam score worth half as much as others, which was definitely helpful for a lot of people. The exams were pretty easy and fair. Professor Schmidt is super nice and fun and I encourage you to give her class a chance!

I was nervous to take this class with Professor Schmidt because of all the negative reviews, but I ended up having a great experience! Professor Schmidt was understanding and open to questions, and I never felt like she was rude or condescending to anyone during lecture or office hours. She also changed the exams in recent years, so each test had less material (which I really appreciated) and there was no cumulative final. The only thing I would change about the course is that she never gives back graded tests (you only get the grade itself), so it was difficult to know where points were taken off or how to improve without going to office hours. Overall, though, this course was great, and I definitely would recommend Professor Schmidt!

When judging whether to take this class with Professor Schmidt, please SORT BY MOST RECENT!! There are a lot of really negative reviews of her from 2010-2011 and it's truly a shame that those reviews are causing a lot of people to avoid taking this class with her. Professor Schmidt has completely changed her way of teaching this course and she is so nice and approachable. Her exams are pretty easy if you've paid even a small amount of attention and study for like an hour or two the day before. Seriously don't miss out on taking this class with Professor Schmidt because a bunch of now 30 year olds hated her 10 years ago. She's a lovely professor.

I took this course online during COVID so keep that in mind whilst reading my review. Professor Schmidt is a nice person, based on all the previous reviews I had read on this site from other students I was really worried when going into her class. However, she isn't as bad as people make her out to be, sometimes she's just a bit moody which is understandable (we all have those days). Her lecture slides were the best, they were very thorough and detailed. I never even read the textbook once in this class and I got an A-. Her slides state exactly what the textbook says except they're just summed up which is great. I found that her actual lectures were a bit boring, because all she does is read directly off of the slides she wrote, so you're literally just sitting and listening to an audiobook. There were 8 exams in this course and no final. We had 4 design-it exams which were based entirely off of a 20-40 min video she made as well as a study you had to create yourself. You were given a chance to write your design a couple of days before the exam. (I highly recommend writing it up ahead of time and showing it to her during OHs to get her opinion so that you can make the right changes) Designing a study sounds really scary at first, but it's not. You're simply stating an IV, DV, hypothesis (something you would do in a typical biology course in high school). Her 4 test-it exams are based on the lectures. They involve calculations and a general understanding of the concepts discussed in class. The majority of her exams require you to write which was tiresome, there were very little multiple choice questions. And let me say that ANYTHING is free game on her exams and she distinctly states this in her lectures. From a small discussion to a thing she stated out of the blue one day in her lecture (ufff is all I can say). Design its and Test its were conducted in the same week - for instance if you had a design-it on Wednesday, test-it would be on Friday. I suggest working on the practice question(s) listed on the review video/slides she gives out the Monday before the exam because it's very similar to the calculation question on the exam itself.

The labs were a bit weird, they're created by the TAs so I guess they just depend on what TAs you have, but I HIGHLY recommend going to their OHs to ask any questions you have when working on them. We also had a final lab project instead of the final which was super easy to do. Good luck :)