Quality 5/5Difficulty 4/5
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Robert Nowak
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Quality 1/5Difficulty 4/5
This guy honestly cannot teach they need to find a competent professor for this course. Rob is nice and whatever but his TA's teach better than him. Also his canvas page is nonexistent and he started grading our work from SEPTEMBER A WEEK BEFORE FINALS. So yeah, virtually no feedback because stuff is graded on participation as wellRate My Professors ↗
Quality 2/5Difficulty 4/5
Robert honesty did not do very much, the TA for the class did most of the background work for the class, i.e. posting things on piazza and canvas. Also most of the announcements for the class were on piazza which was not very convenient. Robert seemed like a nice guy, but the lectures were honestly kinda useless.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 1/5Difficulty 4/5
Nice guy but his lectures were useless for me to be honest. It doesn't really help your students much if you ask them to read the textbook and then essentially just restate it bar for bar in class. Also, half of the class time was spent on labs which you could just do at home which really meant less time for getting actual instruction.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 4/5Difficulty 4/5
Good class. The contents were interesting. HW/Assignments were a bit challenging but were graded on completion. Exams were not hard but might trip you some time. Professor also always answer student's question. Nice class.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 1/5Difficulty 5/5
Requires stats background which is not clearly explained in class.Rate My Professors ↗
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Classes with Robert Nowak
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