Editor,
I was in Gordon Hodge's Intro to Psychology class during the spring 2006 semester and appreciated his no-nonsense teaching style.
If you've ever had a class in Woodward Hall, where everyone's talking while you're trying to listen to the instructor, then you know how frustrating learning can be.
If you've ever had a class where you had to absorb a thick, 20-or-more-chapter textbook in one semester, then you know that practice quizzes or exams really help you to understand the content of long chapters, especially those read during the wee hours after a long day at school or work.
So, if requiring students to pay attention during class and requiring mandatory quizzes or exams throughout the semester earns a poor professor rating, then I'd like to see another correlation: How did Hodge's students who got an A feel about his teaching style?
It seems like that kind of information would stand a much better chance of containing some constructive criticism.
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My hypothesis is if I can earn an A in Hodge's class, then absolutely everyone in my class should've been able to do the same. My observation is anyone who spent more than 15 minutes taking a chapter exam didn't read the chapter.
My suspicion is some students go to ratemyprofessors.com to whine. My conclusion is to question the validity of the outliers in any ratings sample.
Rick Valles
UNM student
