Reviews of professor Rachel Vale

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Vale cares about teaching and it shows. Her lectures are very well-prepared. When ppl ask "what if" questions, she'll do an example on the board. My biggest problem was I would come out of every 2 hour lecture with 6 pages of notes. Every time. It was overwhelming. She also talks like a kindergarten teacher and smiles encouragingly like one.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Vale tries her best to explain the course material. There are plenty of extra credit opportunities, no homework. Too much notes, quiz once per week.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Vale is a very nice person and a great teacher. Attendance was absolutely necessary as a lot of the work for was the students thinking and working in class. She had us try to figure out how we would build the new concepts before giving us the answers, but she never left us hanging. Would recommend!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The material is all over the place and there will be lots of it. Exams and quizzes cover topics never brought up in class. I wish the instructor stayed on the topic during lectures instead of talking about politics and the weather. Overall a very stressful class and almost impossible to do well with other courses during the semester.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Grades are based on attendance, ALEKS hmwk, notebook checks, and tests. Rarely any test corrections, and it felt like we would only get a topic explained in depth when we had already done badly with it on tests. You know how they say you can tell how good a teacher is by the grades of his students? Almost the whole class failed the second quiz.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Notes are scattered and difficult to follow in class. Likes to make it known she has a Ph.D. Assigns people to take notes in class because nobody can understand what is happening. I wish the course was more realistic and the instructor did not try to cover the entire 5000-page textbook in a couple of weeks.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This is the second class I have taken with Dr. Vale and I can say that I am disappointed. Although she is very nice and gives decent lectures, the material covered in the homework seems disconnected from the stuff we cover in class. Also the tests were difficult. They seemed to have problems that we didn't even cover in class. I don't recommend.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Vale has obviously takes feedback to heart. I get the impression she's still finding her teaching legs, but the really cares about giving quality instruction. I really appreciated her earnesty and enthusiasm for the subject... No way I would have enjoyed this material from a prof who wasn't so excited. Good class, good experience, good prof.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Checks all the right boxes. She's very nice, has a great understanding of the material, will teach you everything you need, she's very accessible to office hours and emails and then some, everything is organized and done in a timely manner. Her class is just difficult enough to make you work for it, but not so much that you feel like it's too hard.