Reviews of professor Laura Cirelli

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Shes not terrible but shes not the best. Shes not that knowledgeable in the field as I thought she would be. She didnt know the answer to a lot of questions ppl asked during lecture. She is caring and welcoming. She encourages critical thinking but doesnt provide clear instructions or exam questions. Dont take her if u dont need to!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I love professor Cirelli !! She's the absolute sweetest professor who genuinely cares about her students. I don't know why her ratings aren't higher. She's very passionate about developmental psychology and it shows !! She uses cute answer choices like "all the children are smart and will grow up successful!" and it's honestly so cute I love her.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Makes the exam questions unnecessarily wordy but I'm pretty much convinced that she does this just so it's hard to understand. Each question is also like five sentences long. You literally forget the beginning of the question before you reach the end. Even though this course was weboptioned you still have to go to class because she uses TopHat..

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Although this prof is a great lecturer, there are many things that could be improved on. Her exam questions are made especially tricky... you can leave the exam feeling so confident but ended up doing so bad. For assignment she stresses to keep it in a word limit for easy marks but the feedbacks all say "elaborate more" or "be more specific".

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I personally loved this class! She is very straightforward with her midterms and exams (80% of questions from lecture, 20% from readings). I found the final assignment to be easy if you just took the time to answer all the prompts in the rubric. Make sure you take good notes in class because that's how I avoided using the textbook!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
worst prof! The assignments are graded harshly. TAs took off marks for missing"," in citation. Also the tests are extremely hard. She seems nice and bubbly but she is not accommodating at all. Readings are from paper that she gives each week and in exam, she tests silly details from the paper. Tries to keep course avg in mid 60s. Test qs are vague.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
So she does take long to explain one concept, but at least you fully understand it by the end of class. The exams are very straight forward, study the lec notes and review the textbook chapters and you should be good. The content of the course is not hard. If you memorize the ages of specific developmental stages then you will do well.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Amazing prof. She explains concepts well and her exams were fair. Would take more classes with her in the future.