How accurate is Rate My Professors?

euve69
Tue, 25 Nov 2014 22:16:16 +0000

Sorry, but I do not agree. I see alot of positive ratings for professors as well, so it is not all negative reviews. You cannot have it both ways. The bad ratings are not accurate, but the good ones are accurate. I do agree that you will always have some disgruntled students that want to vent. You will also have professors that will ask the A students to write a good evaluation.

As I was saying earlier, you cannot use RMP as gospel. You cannot plan your 4 year college career based on RMP, however, there are definitely times when there are 30 or 40 reviews and most of them are negative or postitive, that you really have to say, hey, this is an accurate assesment of that professor. Not all of the time, but many times it is accurate.

I have two nephews (not a scientific study by any stretch) that went to Geneseo and Cornell, and they said by in large that most, not all, but most of the ratings were fairly accurate. Even Mr or Miss Cornell student uses RMP.

By the way, you may never had a professor say, “read the book” but my friends have. There is a difference between a slacker, and a lazy professor. Yes, you should read the book, and you should take the initiative and read it before class if so inclined, but there are some professors that you really wind up teaching alot of the material yourself because they are lousy teachers. We all know that college is not grade school, and you will not be spoon fed, however, you are there to learn, not teach yourself calculus. That is why you are paying 25k-60k per yr on an education.

Some professors are there for research, not teaching. Teaching is the last thing on their mind. Sorry, but those are the facts.

Finally, with regard to the professors not speaking English. If you want to play the syntax game, yes, you are correct, they all speak English, however, if the accent is soooooo thick that they cannot pronounce the words, what good is it? Believe, me, I have had some professors that you simply cannot understand. It happens, trust me. If you want to be politically correct, ok that is your choice, but there are plenty of professors that have no business teaching. It is funny, the professor that is very picky on a test beacuse you may not show all of your work etc, is the same professor that should go to a linguistics course and speak the English language clearly so you as a student can understand the lecture. Now I ask you, is that too much to ask??