Laura Scaletta - Niagara County Community College

Professor: Laura Scaletta

Department: Psychology

College: Niagara County Community College

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: PSY250
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

If you can avoid this professor, please do at all costs. She has a bad reputation at this school for a reason. Be prepared for her to throw her opinions into her teaching, and to grade based off of her concrete rules without flexibility. This class will teach you how to follow her rules more than it will about psychology. She is a waste of time

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: PSY110
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Scaletta is very strict and if you're not serious about learning, try taking Warner for this course instead. Her lectures are actually very captivating. She does NOT allow for any cell phone use at all & will kick you out if she even SEES one. If you want to argue the rule, don't take the class. Take advantage of extra credit and do NOT miss class.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: PSHYC101
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

She assigns Inquizatives which are like online textbook tests every few weeks, which I found extremely difficult. I have only missed one class because Im scared of falling behind. You definitely wont pass if you dont do well on the tests, which means you need to come to class. She can come off kind of rude and she isnt very accommodating.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: PSY110
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Grades unfairly. She grades not based on psychology alone but on English grammer as well. So even if your answer is correct but you miss a period or comma you get a lot of points off. Totally unfair. I passed English with an A ,yet I failed all her writing assignments.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: PSYCH210
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

I rarely post about a professor but let's be real, Scaletta is awful enough to post one. She has high standards but is very vague when giving out instructions, leaving many of us to receive horrible grades. I got a 2/20 for forgetting a link on a discussion board. Honestly, it'd be worth going to an in-person class rather than taking her.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: PSY100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Oh man. I have never had a worse professor. The online grading is meticulous, but rather easy to pass. She is just horribly rude. If you ask a question through email don't expect an answer and if you get one DON'T expect it to be kind or helpful. Will simply tell you to just "read xyz again". Beware! And avoid if possible

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: PSY101
• Grade Received: D+
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Poor lectures, too much in one sitting. Does not like to help you understand the assignment, just wants to make rude comments and get the class done.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: PSY110
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

The class is DIFFICULT and you need to go to every lecture and study or you WILL NOT PASS. However, she is hilarious, passionate, and intelligent. Her lectures are engaging and packed full of information. The tests are difficult and the homework is tedious but doable if you read the book. Dont take this class for an easy A. Get another professor.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: PSY110
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Probably the worst professor I've ever had. Impossible to please on her discussion posts. Grammar matters more than the subject material. Meticulous, condescending, and has a lack of empathy. Run.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: PSY110
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

This professor is almost impossible to reach, and very rude and condescending when she DOES email you back. Won't answer a simple question or try to work on a problem will just tell you basically "oh well." Class was pretty easy, but I wouldn't take another course with her, on campus or online.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: PSHYC101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

She was very difficult to work with and did nothing to help me learn the material. I had issues with the school which prevented me from starting the class on the start date. I explained all of this to her as none of it was my fault, it was simply misplaced papers, but she was not understanding and held it against me for the entirety of the class.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: PSY250
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

The class itself was not hard the tests were not too difficult since I took it online ,and I got good grades. The problem is that Scalleta has interest in the most ridiculous levels of detail. She is simply a case of a professor who makes a class harder than it needs to be. Scalletta is the professor your High School teachers warned you about.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: PSY101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

DO NOT DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS!!!! she is a very harsh grader, very sarcastic , doesn't allow extra credit, the only grades you get are inquisitives ( which are a big pain, there very tedious), and then test and nothing she says in her lectures are on the test! DO NOT take her class

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: PSY1100W2
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Her online class is super easy but she's a b-word when it comes to making everything the way she wants. But whatever...

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: PSY110
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

DO NOT take her class. Run don't walk, run, she's a terrible professor. It's not hard material but none of her test questions are in the lectures or the readings. You must be meticulous with your discussion posts. But just don't take her, your average will tank. There really should be a 0 rating

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: PSY110
• Grade Received: F
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Worst grader ever. Awful teacher overall. If you have the chance to take the class with anyone else do it. It sucks that teachers have to be that way when they grade.. if you accidental spell a word wrong she takes off points and it adds up... make sure you really watch your spelling and grammar.. she doesn't care.. again worst teacher.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: PSY110
• Grade Received: C-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Terrible professor, take the class with a different prof. What's on the quiz isn't in the notes or in the readings. Unclear grading criteria for discussions, they're a big chunk of your grade. Graded on few things, inquisitives, 3 Discussions, quizzes for each unit, hard to get your grade up if you do poorly on the discussions and quizzes.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: PSHYC101
• Grade Received: D
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

If you have the option to take the class with a different professor, do it.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: PSY101
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Her class is harder than Anatomy and Physiology, only a few grades making it impossible to bring your grade up, tests are very difficult and majority of the material is not covered, notes are useless, expects you to write everything she says during a lecture. We get it it is college, but she expects way to much for what she gives.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: PSY250
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Terrible at grading, irrelevant feedback, easy class but shes not great