{"id":1401,"date":"2015-02-10T12:03:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T17:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/msb\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2015-02-10T12:14:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T17:14:34","slug":"the-correct-way-to-use-ratemyprofessors-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/msb\/2015\/02\/10\/the-correct-way-to-use-ratemyprofessors-com\/","title":{"rendered":"The Correct Way to Use RateMyProfessors.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Disclaimer:<\/strong>\u00a0Anything written in this blog represents the opinions of the author, and no one else. Each blog is written lightly, and is not intended to offend any of the mentioned businesses, locations, students, or staff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratemyprofessors.com\/\"><br \/>\nRate My Professor<\/a> is a college student\u2019s guide to making his\/her course schedule. Everyone races for the professors rated an \u201cA\u201d (meaning they are a great professor) or a chili pepper (meaning the teacher is \u201chot\u201d). As useful as the site can be, there are several tricks to making it more reliable, as listed below.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Give helpful advice.<\/strong> Don\u2019t just say what you like or don\u2019t like about a professor. Instead, say something <em>helpful<\/em> to future students. For example, instead of writing: \u201cThis professor gives too many quizzes. She sucks!\u201d consider writing: \u201cThis professor always quizzes on the reading, but if you read the assigned chapters, you\u2019ll do well.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pay attention to spelling and grammar.<\/strong> I recognize that this sounds silly, but consider this for a minute: If a student doesn\u2019t care enough to at least <em>try<\/em> to write properly when reviewing a professor, is their review <em>really<\/em> reliable? You don\u2019t know this person, so far all you know, they wrote just as improperly in the course that they are reviewing. This may have earned them a poor grade, resulting in their negative post on the site.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Take what you read with a grain of salt.<\/strong>\u00a0It is important to pay close attention to the number of students who have reviewed a professor. If the instructor only has a few reviews, you can&#8217;t always count on them.\u00a0Alternatively, if there are many reviews, you can usually trust the grade that the teacher has received. Additionally, the majority of students that write reviews are ones who either <em>loved<\/em> or <em>hated<\/em> the instructor.\u00a0Make sure to consider that the students who are in the middle ground aren\u2019t often accounted for on the site.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Students and professors alike don\u2019t doubt that Rate My Professor is a useful tool. It is a resource for students to learn about their peers\u2019 views on professors they haven\u2019t had yet, and it is a way for professors to learn about what students like and dislike about their course. By following the previous three tips, you may be more satisfied with the information collected by Rate My Professor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disclaimer:\u00a0Anything written in this blog represents the opinions of the author, and no one else. Each blog is written lightly, and is not intended to offend any of the mentioned businesses, locations, students, or staff. Rate My Professor is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/msb\/2015\/02\/10\/the-correct-way-to-use-ratemyprofessors-com\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/msb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/msb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/msb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/msb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/msb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/msb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/msb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/msb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/msb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/msb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}