Reviews of professor Daniela Palombo

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Palombo was a great prof! Lectures were organized and easy to follow, and while we did cover a lot of ground, there were no surprises on exams. Course was weighted on three exams, and a simple journal entry assignment.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Palombo is a VERY bad lecturer...it doesn't help that the material is so dry but she just makes it worse. She overcomplicates things by going overboard in her descriptions and constantly using unnecessary jargon like please just explain the concept simply. She also mentions tiny details in lectures & expects u to remember them on tests.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Palombo actually did quite a phenomenal job executing this course during a pandemic. She was caring and accommodating for grading and weighting of assessments. The quizzes were fairly straight-forward and based mainly on her online lectures which were clear in itself. The papers and other assignments were all marked by TA.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Kind and knowledgeable prof. Her lecture content ties in nicely with the readings and I find her to be easy to understand and learn from. I also thought her assessments were very fair!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I had Dr. Palombo in Fall 2020 for online classes. She is actually a really great instructor and I can tell she cares about her students. PSYC 331 and 309 are both graded on 4 non-cumulative open-book quizzes, a 40% paper and a small discussion assignment. Also she is consistently giving extensions when she feels the class needs it!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Felt like an intro level psyc class with a random paper assignment. Lectures are recorded and very accessible. She actually does a lot to make it interesting, but it still felt boring to me. I disagree with the grading and random tested material, but otherwise this was an extremely easy course. You could definitely take it with no psyc background.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Palombo is an incredible teacher. She has been nothing but supportive and accommodating to students as they navigate the pandemic this term. I have never had a prof put in this level of time and effort to help their students. You can tell Dr. Palombo is not reading off of a script during her lectures and has extensive knowledge in her field

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She will test you on miniscule details that she mentioned maybe once in lecture so get ready to literally write down everything she says. Also is a very drab lecturer.