Class material is pretty basic/should be review from 10A, and midterm/final are online and overall pretty easy points. Focus on lab and doing the experiments/writeups, those impact your grade the most. Ask the TA to look over your papers before submitting to get a good grade. The TAs are very helpful and open!
I loved this class! The material is straightforward. You are graded on four projects, a weekly chapter review, and in-class "pop" quizzes. They are not too difficult. He totally wants you to succeed, and I love that he designed the class to reflect how we best learn, which is literally what he is teaching about. I am so glad I took this course!
He is a good professor that is passionate and knowledgeable about the topics he is teaching. He wrote the textbook, after all. Very insightful and reasonable towards all students' circumstances.
i clicker quizzes every class in place of midterm and final. does not post lecture slides until the following week. content and lectures are boring and repetitive. no offense to prof mayer himself; he's a kind person.
For anyone with attention deficits don't take this course. He doesn't post slides before the class and quiz questions are extremely specific with 1 minute to finish each question in class. Lectures are long and boring. A lot of quiz questions come from very specific studies in the reading and he assigns 2 50 page chapters per week.
Professor Hegarty is such an amazing and caring professor. Really understanding, quizzes and exams aren't too hard and overall very fair, lectures are clear and straightforward. Likes to interact with her students.
I'm shocked people rated him so highly. Im surprised someone who teaches educational psychology can't teach... since he has all the info there. Lectures are painfully long and boring, they feel like an eternity. The slides suck and he changes them so fast, goes on tangents at least 4 times per lecture ab irrelevance, like eugenics. don't do it!
Lectures are clear (but you still have to read the textbook if you want to get good grades in the exams), and materials and experiments are pretty interesting. Prof. Hegarty cares about her students outside class. You can tell that she doesn't want her students' life to be difficult. Definitely take her PSY108.
Clear professor and real interesting material. Lectures can be quite brutal to go through sometimes, but she really knows her stuff. Also pretty accommodating and really cares for her students!
Professor Hegarty was a great professor! She's clear about what she expects and tests fairly. Go to lecture and read the textbook and you should do great! She's also really approachable, passionate about the subject, and always willing to help outside of class. Grades are based on weekly quizzes, zaps, and tests.
So, um, you know, she was, you know, was a pretty good, um, a pretty good professor, but, um, you know, uh, um, a lot of, um, a lot of time was, um, wasted because she, um, you know, um, needed, you know, like a, uh, speech coach, or um, something like that, but um, everything else was great. So seriously, good class, but she needed a transcript
You can really tell Professor Mayer cares about teaching and the success of his students. So long as you do the work and follow instructions, you should get an A in the class
By far one of the most kind hearted and inspirational professors I had. When assigned to do his project assignments, he provides great feedback and made me better at writing psychological research. His goal in his class is to make you actually learn which he does brilliantly. His class was very fun and I highly recommend taking him! :)
Grade is based off in class pop quizzes ( 2-4 questions), small projects (4 total), and chapter reviews. All of which are super easy. He gave us a chance to redeem any missed quiz questions in the last lecture. This class is an easy A and the prof loves what he does and puts an emphasis on education rather than grades.
Super interesting class. One of the only classes at UCSB where I felt like learning was more emphasized than grades. He likes asking student opinions and welcomes all questions and class discussion. Really great teacher.
He reminds of a sweet Italian grandpa. But it shrouds the fact that his lectures are so boring and it doesn't help that people are so annoying in class. Ask him personal questions after class. He goes off topic a lot. His test questions require you read a long book and remember one experiment and those results go against what he includes in lecture
Unclear during lectures which makes it hard to learn the material well enough for exams. Exams are very long so know all the material. Has extra credit but other than that, hard professor. Retook this class with a different professor and got a straight A. Just shows how horrible she is.
I enjoyed her lecture slides they were straight forward for the most part since I ended up not going to like, half the lectures. Don't recommend that since Hegarty started to notice. Weekly quizzes, midterm final, that's it. Study your ass off since the class is very potent. GauchoSpace is used for question forum which is helpful for answering Q's.
super sweet lady who gives weekly online quizzes that have questions straight from the book that she includes on exams, her tests are super straightforward and don't beat around the bush and if you read the chapters and study her lectures (she puts the highlights of the chapters on them), you'll do super well!
Being in this class was a slow painful death. Never thought a class focused on teaching/learning would have a professor who couldn't teach or make the material somewhat interesting. Buy the books if you have insomnia because reading the first page will make you fall asleep so fast. Boring class, stay away, I had more fun with physics and ochem.
Really great class if you are interested in education. There is a ton of reading but it is basically the same as what's presented in the lecture so doesn't make the class more complicated. Tests are super fair and your grade also consists of pretty straight forward projects and in class quizzes. Overall great class and super nice man.
I hated this class. Prof Hegarty is such a dry lecturer, I don't think I was able to pay attention through a whole lecture past week 3. I got a B+ in the class and I really think I could have done much better (the tests really weren't that hard) but I had a hard time with motivation for this class bc I hated the material so much
Incomprehensible content was given while she lectured. Inaudible speeches with plenty of stutters. Read as much as you can and do the extra credit or else you will be hammered by her exams.
Mayer is a nice and a pretty funny old guy, but I genuinely was not so interested in the material it's making the class difficult to get through. This class is not hard, the material is fairly simple, you just have to put forth the effort. I didn't really try on the first exam and got an 82. For every 10 points higher on final 1 notch up: A -> A+
