Reviews of professor Leland Aldridge

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I found Dr. Aldridge's teaching style to be very frustrating, he used all of our class time for lectures (even recitation) and worked out very few problems so it was hard to know what to study for his tests. Spends a lot of time on theory and deriving equations and not nearly enough on how to use the equations in example problems

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is the worst professor I have had so far at Gonzaga. His lectures make little to no sense and don't cover what the homework is on. He also uses "clickers" to quiz you throughout his lectures. Most of the time these questions are on material that hasn't been covered yet. Homework is hard and he doesn't know how to help. Take any other professor.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Leland Aldridge is a fantastic professor and I very much enjoyed his class. Very forgiving. I missed a quarter of the classes and sent a buddy in with my clicker and was fine. Also screwed up a test or two and still made it out unscathed.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I came to Gonzaga feeling good about physics and am leaving this class completely lost. He doesn't know how to teach physics, our class average for each test was around 50%. Everything I know about physics came from my two high school physics classes. I learned nothing in this class. Take literally anyone else, his class makes no sense.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I have no idea what is going on during his class. He does not know how to explain problems and nothing we do in class is like what we do during exams. You can do okay in his class if you do well on clicker questions, homework and reading quizzes, but do not expect to do well on his exams.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Physics is a hard subject. I didn't find the PowerPoint lecture style of his class an effective way to teach such tough concepts. There were two difficult midterm exams and a final. I don't know if he will with the final, but he curved both the midterms. One sheet of printer paper was allowed on each midterm and three sheets for the final.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He just has no idea how to teach. What he goes over in class is purely conceptual, and he pretty much leaves us out to dry when it comes to applying any sort of equations to our problems. When asked for help he just restates what he has already said. If you have to take him, be ready to seek lots and lots of help outside of class.