Reviews of professor Jacqueline Buffington-Vollum

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Jacki is a really sweet person and is very knowledgeable in what she teaches; however, her quizzes are awful. She asks the most obscure questions, which makes them very difficult. I did love her class though, it was very interesting, and she loves to talk to people in her office hours.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
My favorite professor I've had.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She's a great lady, but watching her stress over having to teach stressed me out. I took her for a few classes during my time at UMD and she is nice, caring, and intelligent. However, she's disorganized and takes forever to grade things. Not my favorite professor.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Online class was organized and had a checklist of things to do. Powerpoints you HAD to participate in by answering her questions. Class is heavy participation and not self-paced. Quizzes always felt like they were trying to trip you up. The class felt like a review of other classes and didn't really help interest me in Forensic Psychology.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great professor with a lot of real world experience and knowledge. The class I took was pretty test heavy, but the material was interesting and the quizzes were very straight forward if you were familiar with the material. She grades things in a timely fashion and also offers plenty of extra credit. Would definitely recommend taking her class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
From experience, I do not recommend taking more than one Jacki class at once. Her classes are fairly difficult and require that a lot of time and effort is put in to the assignments and quizzes. She is very knowledgeable in what she teaches and is super sweet, but she definitely challenges her students.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She packs a LOT of material into a 3000 level class. Class didn't have a textbook but she used videos and PDFs to suffice (they were usually long). Felt like she expected us to know everything and that we were grad psych students when we weren't. Great stories though and makes class go by fast.