Reviews for Keith E. Herold
Average Rating:| terpfan8591 Course: BIOE232 Grade Expected: A June 2, 2011, 6:16 am | Herold's a pretty mediocre teacher. He's a nice guy and he'll definitely do his best to make sure you understand, but his lectures generally aren't that helpful. If you don't get something don't be afraid to ask, he's willing to put the time in to help you. In our class there was a huge range of scores on exams. Basically, the kids who understood the material right away found the tests easy and got A's, and the kids who didn't get it but probably could have learned the material with better instruction did very poorly. The key to this class is to put a lot of time into the homework. There are solution guides out there but I wouldn't use them. I did all the reading and spent a ton of time on the homework, and I found the quizzes and tests to be easy without having to study that much. If you don't have time I recommend doing the homework during class (don't skip because he gives quizzes), you'll benefit more from that than from paying attention. |
| Anonymous Course: BIOE232 Grade Expected: B May 21, 2011, 10:37 am | We were supposed to have quizzes every Thursday but we ended up having 5 all semester. We were supposed to have only 2 exams and a final but the average on the second exam was really low (like 60), so we convinced him to give us a 3rd. For homework, he expected us to 'think' about the problem and find ways it connected to other problems, which none of us had time for. His first exam was almost identical to the practice exam but some parts were confusing. We did not cover like 3 chapters because he was really disorganized. He is a really nice guy and cares about his students but he is not a great professor. He tried really hard to change the course as the semester went along but hopefully he will have better luck teaching it next semester. An important thing to remember is that if there are too many exams in one week (like the week before spring break), then you can ask him to move the exam. I had a BSCI330 exam, this class and a core class exam in the same week. core and thermo I would have been fine but BSCI is really hard and requires a lot of memorization so everyone focused on that first and then when it was time for Thermo, we did not have enough time to study and so our second exam scores were really terrible. Good Luck! |
| Anonymous Course: BIOE232 Grade Expected: B April 4, 2011, 3:56 pm | He tries, but he fails. Nice guy, but believes a student should be able to extrapolate quantitative skills from being just taught the more conceptual information. Homework-like examples would have been helpful...but he's very passive aggressive and takes offense to any criticism made about his teaching style. He believes everything he writes to be "straight-forward" while in fact he couldn't be further from the truth. Also, he wants students to "think" about and "apply" the problems in the real-world while doing homeworks....but this is too much to ask for since the homework is already extremely demanding, and takes way too much time...and most of us have 15-18 credit schedules and can't put the heart into a homework assignment. He basically needs to understand we have other classes to focus on as well, and to be a little less uptight about the course. |