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.

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!

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

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.

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+