Dawn Holmes - University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

Professor: Dawn Holmes

Department: Statistics

College: University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: PSTAT130
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Caveat 2005 or so. The text should be base certification book. Quizzes should be based on those in the book. It should be a cert prep course plus possibly some basic SAS/STAT. *Advice: google, SAS support *I have been a SAS Analyst 10 yrs, not fair to test someone on hand written code & ding them because it won't run. T&E & syntax errors hpn

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: PSTAT5LS
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Weekly quizzes in section, attendance in lab and section is mandatory. She uses a projector but doesn't post lecture notes. 2 MC midterms and a free response final. Optional homework, helpful if completed. Reviewing lecture notes will help. Averages on midterms: 80/100 and Final: 52/100.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: PSTAT10
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Honestly she's a very solid professor. She goes fast during lecture and doesn't post the notes online, but that's my only complaint. Fairly easy to do well in the class with this professor, provided you study and do all the work. The course material itself is not very difficult. Very nice and helpful during office hours. Exams are straightforward.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: PSTAT5LS
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

PSTAT 5LS was frustrating because there was no CLAS, the TA's were difficult and more often than not the homework solutions were wrong, and there's no iClicker for lecture and its not awfully exciting. There's no practice midterms or final but she tells you exactly whats on it. Homework isn't mandatory but know how to do them.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: PSTAT10
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

She's a nice lady but uses outdated teaching techniques. The material is not difficult, but she made the midterm and final unnecessarily tricky. Most of the TAs aren't very knowledgeable and just skim the material. Luckily the workload is light. It's not hard to get at least a B.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: PSTAT10
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

she never posts the lectures and goes so fast you have to got to every one. the material wouldn't be the bad if she did. got about a 10% curve.. ta was the worst least knowledgable person I've ever experienced

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: PSTAT10
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

NOTES/REVIEWS ARE NOT POSTED. WORST PROF EVER TAKEN. AND TA DIDNT KNO WHAT WAS GOING ON

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: PSTAT10
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

The only way to get good grade for this class is to go to every single lecture at 8am. She do not put any slides and review stuff on gauchospace.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: PSTAT10
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Her notes can be hard to keep up with, especially considering how many database manipulation examples are given. Does not post these notes on gauchospace and is often very frustrated with students for taking pictures. The midterm is also full of trick questions, even if it seems pretty basic and standard. TAs don't even know whats going on.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: PSTAT10
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

The only way you can get material about the course is to record her slides during lecture. Get ready to write and type during class. Old style teaching.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: PSTAT10
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I think this class would be easy if you really tried - I took it with two other tough classes so slacked off a bit and managed a b. worst thing by far about the class is that she goes through A TON of "slides" during lecture, too fast for you to write anything down and DOESN'T POST THEM ON GAUCHOSPACE??? everyone literally took pictures all lecture

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: PSTAT10
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Sweet old British lady that knows her stuff, fair and not too workload heavy. I just really wish she would upload her powerpoints because this is an introduction to a coding language and doing prints only on a projector is really hard to write down everything she's saying and the data structures for R as she goes by pretty fast

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: PSTAT130
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

She is awful. Zero explanation of what she just said.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: PSTAT5LS
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Great old lady with a delight British accent. I would take 5A though as her two midterms were very convoluted and didn't really come from lecture. Final was easy if you use the 5A (I got a 99). Basically, just take 5A and stay away from this class.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: PSTAT5LS
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

She goes through presentations REALLY fast (skeletons posted later don't cover everything). I focused on writing notes during lectures rather then paying more attention to her and ended up with a D and an F on the midterms. Basically taught myself everything the days before the final, got an 87 on that and a B in the class. I heard 5a is easier.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: PSTAT5LS
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

For me personally, this course was very confusing and frustrating. The 1st midterm is relatively easy and should be taken advantage of; the 2nd midterm is significantly more difficult. Received a B and C respectively on these. Wasn't until I started learning from a PSTAT5A textbook that I finally got it. Got a 96 on the final as a result of this.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: PSTAT5LS
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Holmes is a super sweet lady. If you go to lecture and section and do a little bit of studying outside of class, you'll be completely fine. 2 midterms were multiple choice and final was free response. Class was curved.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: PSTAT5LS
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Theres two midterm and they are multpile choie

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: PSTAT5LS
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Dawn is a really nice old British lady. She uses an overhead projector & transparencies to lecture, which are a little hard to see & a little unorganized at times. The first midterm is SO easy, just understanding definitions. The 2nd midterm & final are more difficult but doing the optional homework helps. Midterms are MC & final is FR. Lab is drag

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: PSTAT5LS
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I struggled at first, but started going to office hours and it helped a lot. She's willing to help you. Go to all the lectures and pay attention because she really drops a lot of hints about the exams.