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Katherine Magnuson

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Raw average: 3.33/5 from 9 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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SW711 · course not matched
Quality 3/5Difficulty 3/5
Katherine assigns a lot of reading, but her exams are not too difficult and her grading is on the easy side.
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SW711 · course not matched
Quality 4/5Difficulty 4/5
There is a high reading requirement, but Katherine is smoking hot which makes lectures extremely enjoyable.
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SW711 · course not matched
Quality 2/5Difficulty 1/5
She is extremely snippy with students, and acts very condescending. She did not appear to have a firm grasp of the material, and had difficulty answering students' questions much of the time. When she did, she was often unclear.
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SW01 · course not matched
Quality 3/5Difficulty 3/5
She sometimes rubbed me the wrong way, but she wasn't a bad teacher by any means. I didn't think her a fair grader, but if you were on her good side, you had no problems earning a good grade.
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SOC 206
Quality 3/5Difficulty 3/5
decent. i was away from an A by .01, didnt give it to me. can be rude sometimes. but knowledgable.
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SOCIALWORK206 · course not matched
Quality 5/5Difficulty 4/5
Not a bad class at all...did not like her at all at first but then I got to really like her. She is actually a really nice person. The tests aren't too hard and the mutiple choice questions weren't hard either....all you have to do is study people!
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Classes with Katherine Magnuson

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