Kent Tedin

  • 2.7Overall Quality
  • 2.5Helpfulness
  • 2.9Clarity
  • 3.0Easiness

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Class
Rating
Comment
5/16/13

POLS 1306

Good Quality

Easiness4

Helpfulness4

Clarity4

Rater Interest1

As boring as class may be, make an effort to go. He points out a lot of questions that WILL be on the test and sure enough they are. A lot of test questions involve class discussions. Easy class.

5/12/13

POLS 1336

Good Quality

Easiness4

Helpfulness4

Clarity3

Rater Interest3

I highly recommend taking Tedin. Anything 80 and above in his class is an A, so that curve is reason enough to take his class. Also, do the LearnSmart activities as study tools for the test. I got an A and slept through most lectures and occasionally skipped class.

5/10/13

POLI 1336

Good Quality

Easiness3

Helpfulness3

Clarity4

Rater Interest3

Professor Tedin is okay, I found his lectures boring however I attended them because he hinted at test questions. This is not an easy A class, I found his tests quite tough actually. I found his TA to be a lot more approachable and helpful when I asked questions. So if you take him spend A LOT of time reading the textbook.

5/9/13

Pols 1336

Average Quality

Easiness5

Helpfulness2

Clarity3

Rater Interest1

Boring lectures. He talks a lot about himself. Nobody showed up except on tests. The only reason to go to class was that he said some of the questions that were going to be on the test. Read the book, do quizzes, get an A.

3/14/13

POLS 1337

Good Quality

Easiness4

Helpfulness5

Clarity5

Rater Interest2

He's a great professor, a lot of people dislike him but he's incredibly intelligent.

2/22/13

pol1336

Poor Quality

Easiness2

Helpfulness1

Clarity2

Rater Interest1

He's class was very boring. Out of 300 students less than 100 would go to class. He would go over material after you have done the quiz, which to me made no sense. With the overall grade he will give a big curve.

2/20/13

13361854

Average Quality

Easiness5

Helpfulness5

Clarity1

Rater Interest1

Just took our first exam this week and knew every answer on his 60 question test minus 5-10. Gives huge curve so def got an A. Don't read the book only skim for quiz answers. Attend every class b/c he will tell you 90% questions that will be on the test. Whatever questions don't come from his powerpoints come from the online learnsmart study guide.

11/1/12

Pols1336

Average Quality

Easiness4

Helpfulness3

Clarity3

Rater Interest3

Just about as easy as poly sci will get. Take the quizzes and study for the tests and you'll be good. Quizzes easy if you read. straight forward class

9/10/12

POLS1336

Poor Quality

Easiness1

Helpfulness2

Clarity1

Rater Interest2

This teacher makes you take a hard quiz on something you haven't even learned yet expecting you to read the entire section of the book assigned for the lecture that specific week along with some other mandatory assigned work basically lectures are useless and not helpful. SUPER HARD try a different professor and actually learn something.

5/17/12

POLS1336

Good Quality

Easiness3

Helpfulness3

Clarity4

Rater Interest2

quizzes are not as easy a grade as he leads you to believe but they help. His tests are curved pretty well, bc everyone does so poorly. YOU NEED THE BOOK! cant get around it; share. Lectures boring, but helpful if you can stay awake. The book is dreadfully boring to read. Skim for quizzes! Answers are word for word. Tedin is hilarious also.

5/9/12

GOVT1336

Good Quality

Easiness5

Helpfulness3

Clarity4

Rater Interest1

His lectures are definitely helpful, but not really interesting. If you go to class, he'll let you in on certain questions on the test. There was a weekly quiz before each section, two tests and a final. Overall, it wasn't too bad.

1/9/12

POLS1336

Good Quality

Easiness4

Helpfulness4

Clarity5

Rater Interest2

He is very good!

11/17/11

POLS1336

Good Quality

Easiness2

Helpfulness4

Clarity5

Rater Interest3

Only a difficult class if you make if a difficult class. Weekly online quizzes prior to lecture and easy if you read or know where to look in the book. Teaches well and is very knowledgeable and provides his Power points at the end of lectures. Tests are difficult but then again ALL POLS TESTS ARE DIFFICULT no matter what instructor you have

11/2/11

POLS1336

Good Quality

Easiness4

Helpfulness5

Clarity5

Rater Interest5

HE is a good professor! He will NOT GIVE you an A; but if you 1) attend lectures (he tell you things you'll NEED to know)! 2) Read/skim the book for the weekly quizzes and overall knowledge! YOU'LL BE FINE! Nothing is difficult/hard to understand! This is a COLLEGE! class: weekly online quizzes (so NEED book) and 2 test plus final. THATS ALL!

10/11/11

POLS1336

Poor Quality

Easiness2

Helpfulness2

Clarity1

Rater Interest3

Don't take this professor. He has weekly quizzes over 2 chapters of the book. Some were easy and some weren't even from the book. You don't cover the chapters for the quiz until the week after . The questions on the test a phrased to where it could be two of four choices, you really have to know little details. Lectures are boring and pointless..

10/1/11

POLS1336

Poor Quality

Easiness2

Helpfulness1

Clarity2

Rater Interest3

worse teacher ever. he has the worst attitute out of any teacher ive ever had. i read the book and took notes over every chapter and still madde a D on my first test. im either gonna drop it or kill myself.

9/26/11

POLS1336

Poor Quality

Easiness2

Helpfulness1

Clarity2

Rater Interest1

Literally the worst professor I have ever had. His lectures usually have nothing to do with the power points because he gets so off topic. He doesn't give you a review, simply tells you to know everything that he has covered since then. Not to mention he is an absolute jerk. Never take him.

3/9/11

pols1336

Good Quality

Easiness3

Helpfulness4

Clarity4

Rater Interest2

Great class for those who care about public opinion. Nice TA.

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12/25/10

pols1336

Poor Quality

Easiness5

Helpfulness1

Clarity1

Rater Interest1

Man, I don't know how UH continues to give tenure to the worst professors. Tedin had no idea how to get his powerpoints to work (90% of the tests come from these) and a great majority of his lecture consisted of him randomly spouting stuff that was only weakly connected to the course material. The book was a joke. He does give a generous curve.

12/3/09

chu3365

Average Quality

Easiness3

Helpfulness3

Clarity2

Rater Interest1

My goodness his grading structure is horrible, does not make sense, very boring teacher, grades exams extremely slow, do not take this class, please