RIT SG Professor Evaluations ca. 2005

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Ratings for Maria Catalan

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8820023Nice lady, will meet with you outside of class if your having trouble, and goes over the material on the test very well.
good grader as well
8820012Just something about her keeps me from giving her an A. Not sure what it is. I don't rank her among the very top of the professors at RIT but she is a very good, solid professor. You will get an A if you know what you are talking about and make an effort. I would not hesitate to take her again.
9520012Don't listen to what everyone says....she is a very good teacher, and if you do not understand something, she is much better 1 on 1. it is easier to get an A because an 84-100 is an A. all of her materials are online also. just a good bet that you'll like her
9520012although the material may be hard at times, she is always available to help you after class, during office hours, and she even set up an extra hour on fridays for anyone that had questions they wanted answered. i failed the first test, but after lots of dedication, i got a B in the class. very fair teacher.
9520012nice lady, she will definitely help you if you ask, the other people who voted are being whiney, don't listen to them.
7120012Doesn't teach, relies on a lot of homework and in-class projects to teach for her. Tests are too long, Final is ridiculous
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6120012Very intelligent. Granted she tries, but her in class presence is lacking. She is willing to give you all the help outside of class. I believe this is to make up for her ineffectiveness in the class room. She teaches basic concepts, and then expects you to perform advanced functions on HW, quizzes and tests. I would recommend finding a prof that is a better teacher or a better brain.
9520011a very fair teacher, covers material well and makes sure you are prepared for the tests
8120011Shes an OK professor, but she is British. If you like people butchering the words "schedule," "garage," and "trajectory," then she is the professor for you. The final was unbelievably hard, and way too long for the time she gave us. She knew that, but did she do anything about it... NO! Tests and quizzes are open- notes and open-book, so they aren't too hard if you know where to look for the info. I repeat, the final was way to fock|ng long for the 2 HOURS she gave us. Seriously, how does someone make a test that will actual;ly take longer than 2 hours to complete? I'll tell you, sadistic physics teachers who have too much torque being exerted on their bodies by the sticks up their a$$. She is a good teacher though, but she had to go and taint my image of her with that $hitty final.
9920011Outstanding patience with and dedication to students. Provides lecture notes to students b/f lectures. Uses UofR's WeBWorK instead of WebAssign #makes online homework more of a learning task instead of an intense quiz.
9920011BEST PROF THE PHYSICS DEPT. HAS
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8520003Not bad.
Teaches well and is willing to HELP IF YOU ASK HER! Very good method of teaching. If you are not prepared to read and do the work, i suggest you donot take her, but if u wud like to understand Physics, take her.. you will not regret it.
6820003She's great, if you like 12 pages of notes a day. The monkeys that fly out of her butt are scarey.
6520002She's not good in class because she only covers the concepts of the topic but not how to calculate the different situations. Taking a class with her will DEFINETLY require you to put extra special attention to this class. She's much better with one on one assistance and she's willing to stay late and help you to understand the material. Her exams are entirely too long for the 1hr that is allotted, if you don't fully understand the work you could fail the exam because you may have not completed it.
Reading the chapters very thouroughly and doing all the odd problems in the back worked for me.
4820002horrible teaching style. Horrible homework assignment. strict gradeing. not a very good teacher
4820002She only covers the concepts. She never shows us any examples. How are we supposed to know how to do the calculations when she does not show us how to do tham?
6520002Her grading is ridiculous. We did our homework in a group and when we got the wrong answers we got the grade divided in three cause we "cheated". The homeworks are not from the book and are pointless. She only checks 4 out of each one and most of the time they are like 9 problems long. This might be fine if she told you which ones she graded ahead of time but that would make our lives too easy. The only reason to go to class is to take the stupid reading quizes everyday because her lectures can be gotten off the web. If you can take someone else i suggest you do.