Reviews of professor Rachel Balven

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The exam is difficult, assignment grading is picky, and the attendance policy is strict. So hard to get good grads.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Short lectures followed by classroom activities. Some are useful and some are more fun. Professor was entertaining. Easy quizzes, harder testes, tons of teamwork.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof Balven was very enthusiastic.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She is just the best! Definitely the most caring and responsive professor I've had. I think this class should be mandatory because everyone should learn how to work with others before they get a job.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Super awesome prof. Was very understanding of some personal issues I had and worked with me to get caught up when i missed. Quizzes are open note and the exams are a bit harder than the quizzes. The bulk of the class is group work, so dont sign up if you dont like working with others.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She is the worst. Nice, but because she is a researcher she expects way too much from undergrads. All group essays and all of them are repetitive. SO MUCH busy work, all semester even down to the last week of class. Extremely tough grader, my group usually aces individual essays and we got all B's on the group essays. Test are so hard, take notes!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Sucks that this class is considered a requirement because I did not learn much. It is an easy A if you show up and do the minimal participation. It reminded of like an elementary school class of teaching each other to work together practically.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Got an AMAZING letter of recommendation written by Dr. Balven. She genuinely cares so much about her students. Take her class and ask for a recommendation letter at the end!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The professor's strict grading policies and attendance requirements are not conducive to learning. Deducting over 20% from all groups' scores and deducting all attendance points for missing a few classes is excessive. The exam schedule is also problematic and causes stress. Do not take her class, it's impossible to get good grades.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Balven was very flexible with our class and changed some of the lecture stuff and our schedule based on how the students voted. We had a really small class so I'm not sure if that always happens. She was super nice to us, but you can't get a good grade unless you have high attendance and participation.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
One of the only mgt classes I learned anything from. I ended up with an A, but put more effort in than other classes.  professor posts the grade distribution. She was very transparent about expectations and as long as you looked at rubrics and studied, you can get a high grade. Some people on my team got As, some Bs and some Cs.