Current instructor

Karen Best

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Raw average: 3.56/5 from 27 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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What students say

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ESL 118
Quality 3/5Difficulty 4/5
No free mind, No enough feedback, surprisingly low grade. Rises your expectations and then let you down.
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ENG100 · course not matched
Quality 5/5Difficulty 2/5
Prof. Best is amazing! She is so talkative and considerate to her students. We never had lecture, she would just discuss with us during section. She knows her material very well, so she can give clear and respectful feedback. She doesn't make you feel terrible when she grades a paper. My course was online, so I'm sure she is better in person. :)
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Classes with Karen Best

ENGL 515

Techniques and Materials for Tesol

3 credits

ENGL 515 provides supervised practice in teaching English to speakers of other languages using current techniques and materials.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.90 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).

Karen Best

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2022–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Recorded teaching history

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TermCourseTitle
Fall 2026ENGL 515Techniques and Materials for Tesol
Fall 2026ESL 116Academic Reading and Vocabulary Skills

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