Reviews of professor Veronica Rivera-Carpenter

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
DONT TAKE!She is a very hard grader about every little thing& sometimes her grading is questionable&at times doesnt make any sense. Her lectures are long. You can tell shes passionate about her career, doesnt care for students, or grades. With her paper she acts if she is an english teacher I got a low grade in all i did great in my english clas

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Honestly, it's not a bad class but prof. carpenter gives so much busy work. She calls it learning but I've gained very little from the excessive assignments. She also goes off-topic in her lectures all the time. I would prefer she talks more about the information than about her personally stories, even if she's "relating to the topic".

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This is the last ECE class I'm taking and it's by far the hardest one. It's actually the hardest course I have taken in my college career. She's a very hard grader for absolutely no reason. Her expectations are high but she gives very unclear directions. I wish that I could say I'm learning something but I'm just so focused on getting by.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Carpenter was the only instructor at Sierra College who refused to help me by extending a deadline by ONE DAY when I got a positive covid test. She really believes her class is more important than her students or a positive covid diagnosis. Why would anyone want to learn how to be a teacher from somebody like her?

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Will never take a class by this professor again. I teetered on the edge of a D and C no matter what I did. (Final grade 69%). Good info, but very tough grader with unclear grading criteria and many lectures. I was not the only one in my class who had issues, people started email threads begging others for help and understanding of grading.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She was nice but very heavy on lectures which can get boring since she mostly talks about herself. Very strict grader and not very accessible or friendly when help is needed. Class is fairly easy if you read and do your work though.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I really enjoyed taking this course! The lectures were great but there definitely is a fair amount of work to do weekly. Weekly quizzes, 2-3 assignments, and 4 papers throughout the semester. The papers were difficult on the grading side but reach out to her and she will help you out. Gained a lot of knowledge from this course!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She refused to give me an extension on a paper after a family death, then failed me on it. This will likely stop me from graduating. She is a teacher that wants her students to fail, and is hard to contact even during the week. Will never take again, and will warn people to not attend her classes.