Reviews of professor Xiaoli Dong

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Professor Dong taught ESP1 with Professor Scott. It's true her accent can make her lecture a little bit hard to understand, but her powerpoints were useful and engaging. You can get by in the class if you understand the general idea of what she is presenting.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Xiaoli is a great lecturer and really funny! She does a good job at incorporating outside examples from class and explaining difficult concepts. The material isnt hard but its science so you need to apply yourself. She cares about her students. I wish I could take more classes with her and I have a newfound appreciation for ecology.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Dong was a great educator I learned a lot of concrete, applicable information about working in a group and on scientific papers from her capstone class. Grading was tough, but there was a curve at the end.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Attendance check without advance notification counted as extra credits. Big advice: find a good group! You will write a complete paper with those members for the entire quarter! Xiaoli taught how to write each paper section in lecture, and each group gave presentation in lecture as well starting week 4.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lectures were used for group presentation and writing guidance. Entire class was writing a full paper with your group members.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She is so confusing and there is too much information to learn in this class. Everything is extremely unclear and unorganized, way too much reading. There is no clear criteria of what to learn in this class, wish it could've been better. Interesting class, hard material and poor organization.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great lecturer on the nitty-gritty of environmental policy.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Dong has well structured lectures and the assignments are easy to understand. However, she talks really fast and it was challenging to stay engaged in class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great professor! She's very knowledgeable in her field, and her lectures are very dense with information. Her lectures are interesting to learn from, but I do wish she did some more class engagement and that the lectures were less dense. She is easy to talk to outside of class if you have questions about the material.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I LOVED Prof. Dong!! She is SO friendly and funny, which made her lectures more engaging. I loved the anecdotes she included in her lectures. Definitely go over her lecture slides before the tests!! This is such a valuable class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Dong knows her stuff, but she's not a great professor. She has a tendency to go on tangents without explaining concepts first, leading to awkward silences when she asks the 200 person lecture hall questions. Her slides are also hard to follow along with, especially since it's sometimes hard to understand her.