Reviews of professor Drew Baird

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He changed his curriculum from last year, he added an 8-page paper that does not make sense and he gives very little direction on it. Tests are pretty straightforward but he only lectures and is hard to pay attention to. Each absent after three is a grade reduction. The tests and paper are most of your final grade. Would not take him ever again.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr Baird is a great professor. I was really worried about this class and my ability to pass it but Dr. Baird encourages you to ask for help and he is extremely helpful. He's more accessible in person, sometimes he replies to emails when it's too late. As long as you do the work and ask for help when needed you'll do fine.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Is straight forward about expectations. Which is especially helpful for methods type stuff.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Pros: willing to move deadlines, flexible, accessible for questions, coursework is not too hard, syllabus is accurate so you can get ahead 
Cons: uses Google Classroom (separate grading system and clunky), instructions often riddled with typos to the point of being unreadable, does gravelly thing with his voice to try to be funny but it's uncomfy

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Baird was a really great professor. This was my first class with him and I was worried because he didn't have many reviews, but he was the only one teaching this class. Totally worked in my favor and he was super helpful in the assignments and in his availability outside of class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Dr. Baird is caring and really engages with his students. The nature of this course, Statistics in Social Research, is just that it is ridiculously easy for anyone with prior stats knowledge. Just buy the online textbook, via TopHat, and answer participation questions during class to get full credit. Homework and tests are infrequent and not hard.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Second class I've had with him. He's new to CNU to he seems to be adjusting things every semester. The first semester was EASY. This semester there's a paper that's more work but he cut out exam writing. He's in his office a lot and will let you sit there for a long time until your good with your paper or studying for the test of whatever.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Baird is AMAZING. I do not have enough good things to say about him. He is very passionate about education, which makes his 314 lectures incredibly interesting. He handled the switch to online learning wonderfully, and was always looking for ways to better help his students make it through the very challenging semester.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Baird was awesome! He's always happy to be in class and he makes class entertaining. He does lecture a lot, but he does have some discussion points, which I loved. There are a few projects: long research project and group debates. He gave us a bit of a say in our partners and our topics, and I got lucky with both elements, so I aced the debate.