Reviews of professor Carolyn Hsiao

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is a bad prof. It is a 100 level class and she acts like it is a grad level class. Do not take her unless you like psychology or you hate yourself. It is much work for a G3 class. Also she makes you do a 12 page paper at the end on a chapter from the book and she does little to help and does not have clear guidelines of what she wants.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dropped her class on the first day so I cant really say much but she was too intense & strict for a gened class. She freaks out if she sees a phone & she says that if she catches a single student doing something they arent supposed to be doing on their computer we will ALL lose computer privileges. Shes kinda condescending i dont like her demeanor

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
the final exam was different types- matching, multiple choice, and essay- with less than an hour to complete every section with no way to go back to review answers. ended up dropping the grade by 8%. only taught 1 semester at pennstate, & now she's going to another state. if ur in another college outside of pa and see her name on the roister, run.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
About halfway through the semester she decided to no longer give partial credit for answers that were correct, but needed more detail. This caused a lot of bad grades. relies heavily on textbook and lecture videos. However, she does give feedback. When something is wrong, she will give you the correct info in her feedback section.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Hsiao is straightforward in her lectures and makes her expectations clear. However, she has unfair expectations of her students. In order to pass the exams, she makes u memorize the DSM-5 criteria WORD FOR WORD and gives u a zero if you write out the wrong diagnosis. She expects absolute perfection. If u don't have a photographic memory, good luck.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She is the best professor I have had yet! I loved everything that she taught me. There is a lot of opportunity of getting extra credit, and her way of teaching appeals to many. I learned quickly, and did well on every test. You don't even need to read the textbook, because she just teaches that well. I never read more then the first chapter.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Hsiao is probably the professor with the most straightforward grading grid you can think of. Everything is clear. She tells you what the answer is supposed to look like. If it does: perfect, if not: points lost. All about accuracy
The lecture was good to hear: she filled them with exciting case studies. Exams are tightly structured!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I really liked how Dr. Hsiao set clear expectations for the course. If you do the one assignment a week correctly you will get an A. You just have to read.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof Hsaio is a great professor. I took her class online during Corona. She made our assignments very clear in the syllabus and mapped out the whole semester for us. She gave so many resources. I bought the book but did not use it once. I highly recommend her!