This instructor is the worst I have ever experienced in my four year college life in Purdue. He does not know how to teach at all. Lecture is not relevant to homework, homework is not relevant to exam, exam is not relevant to lecture. Attending his class is no better than self-study at home, which is more comfortable and less time-consuming.

This guy is terrible. His homework is nothing like his lectures and his tests are completely different from both. He is a nice guy and I think he wants to be a good teacher. However, when the average score on his tests are about %40 the problem is not the students. His bright spot is the homework is graded on effort and that helps save your grade.

Worst Prof ever. Extremely confusing. No correlation between HW and Exam problems. Take the class next sem if he is your only option this sem.

Awful Prof. DO NOT take his class, lectures are boring and it has nothing to do with homework & exmas. The thing he does best is teach easy stuff hard as hell.

Terrible. He mutters through lectures blabbering theory, that he doesn't provide examples for, then presents you with homework, pop quizzes, and test questions that you've never seen. Literally. I cannot adequately describe how awful this guy's teaching is. He is completely oblivious. DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING HE TEACHES.

Dr. Van Kammen is a great guy, but his class is somewhat off-putting. The material covered in class is very easy to understand, but the homework, quiz, and test questions are completely unrelated to the in-class material. It's misleading to think you have a good grasp on the material only to be handed a pop quiz and stare in confusion.

The worse professor ever!!! Avoid at all the time!!! Average 37 out of 100 for the entire class at final. Lectures homework and exams are totally different at all!!!

I can honestly say I learned nothing in this class. He doesn't know how to teach course objectives, and several students in class would basically engage in discussion with him during lecture, leaving the rest of us lost. Exam questions are irrelevant. Averages are normally in the 40% range. Worst professor at Purdue.

Poor teacher. Ridiculously hard exams. Lectures have nothing to do with the homework, homework has nothing to do with the exams. Always brag about and showing off how good he is at the subject. NOBODY CARES. If you are in his class, prey.

This instructor is the worst I have ever had in my four years at Purdue. His teaching method is so bad. Unstructured lectures. Unclear instructions. The contents are supposed to be useful for econ students, but he doesn't explain things clearly. Also, the class time is like just his own showtime. Boring jokes. Also kinda arrogant personality.

HORRIBLE

Don't get me wrong, Van Kammen seems like a nice guy who means well, but he is a horrible instructor. The lectures are extremely boring and have absolutely no relation to the homework, which also has no relation to the exam material. I left this class more confused about Econometrics than I was before I took his class. Good news: HW is Extra Credit

If you are interested in Econometric, there will be another professor teach this class. Anyway, avoid Ben, he is not a bad guy, but he don't know how to teach.

Avoid him like the plague. I was in Honors Econ in high school, and I have a D in his class. His class is hard for no reason at all.

Quick, honest breakdown of ECON 360. The most important thing is GO. TO. CLASS. it is extra credit and WILL SAVE YOUR GRADE. DO THIS. Exam Averages are 40% usually. DO THE PROJECT EARLY, GO TO OFFICE HOURS AND GET HELP ON IT. Do not stress too much. A or B on the project WILL MEAN at least a C in the class. You will be okay. Don't lose sleep.

Avoid him for no reason! Hw is conceptual questions, the lecture is code stuff, and the final exam is paper writing! I assume the average would be roughly 30%. The only reason I grade him 1, is there's no choice zero.

Very nice guy, but just does not teach material. He considers his exams difficult and just throws random things on them that you've never seen. Averages were usually under 50%. Attendance isn't mandatory, but you get lots of "extra" credit for being there.

This class was stupid difficult. The tests are nearly impossible and he sometimes will assign homework online without announcing it. There is a quiz once a week every Friday that really play a role in your grade.

He is a good guy but very irrevelant exams that is completely different from what he taught in his classes.

The test questions are totally different from what he is teaching! The sample Exam is totally different from the actual test questions! Do not take this class!!! Trust me, he confuses you more than he teaches you! But he is kind, just the test and his teaching style is the worst kind I have ever seen in Purdue University!!!!

You know that awkward moment where the teacher asks a question that is so outside of everyones knowledge base that the room is just silent and confused? Welcome to Benjamin Van Kammen. He is the worst instructor I have ever had including k-12. He is a really nice human and a good economist, but wow he needs a different line of work.

ABSOLUTE WORST PROFESSOR AT PURDUE. Avoid him at all cost. I have never had a teacher this HORRIBLE for any class in any semester even including K-12. Nobody knows what's going on in the class, he'll make hardest exam possible and won't teach you anything that comes in it. All his classes are terribly organized. How he still has a job is beyond me.

Van Kammen is the worst professor I have had at Purdue. He's not a bad person, but prepare to be completely blind sided by the exams. The lectures, homework, and practice exams are not representative of what will be on the exams. There is no way to prepare for them. Good news is that F's are a passing grade in his classes.

Smart dude but he forgets we r not as smart as him and will completely jump over some of the foundations of the material. The exams feel like you r trying to solve a 100-piece puzzle with 5 pieces only. U will physically feel ur brain scramble for the answers I promise u that

He's a nice guy, but his exams represented nothing of what was taught. One question on the first exam was missed by 85% of the class and proceeded to yell at the class. The next exam 95% of the class missed a question and wondered how we missed it and bragged it was the easiest question on the exam. F is passing. Never would recommend him ever.

Get ready for the exams because they're nothing like lecture or the homework. He briefly goes over topics in lecture and expects you to figure it out from there. I'd recommend finding a different prof if available. I'm an A/A- student and tried hard in the class but wasn't able to pull it out. Best of luck if you have to take a class with him.

Van Kammen is the worst Professor I've had while at Purdue, and it's not that close. The exams are nothing like the homework and it makes studying irrelevant. He asks questions completely unrelated to the majority of his exam review. He is a good person and his lectures weren't particularly boring, but the exams ruined the class for me.

I learned more in recitation than I ever did in the (mostly) mandatory lectures. The questions on exams and the program he uses for homework are worded terribly. A houseplant could make learning economics more interesting than he does.

He is honestly the worst professor I've had. His PowerPoints are useless, and he doesn't explain things well in class. There's absolutely no way to do the homework problems, because he doesn't give you example problems. His exams are hard to study for and count towards 75% of your grade. Just do yourself a favor and take a different class.

Absolute worst professor I have ever had in my life. Had misfortune of taking 360 and 340 with him, ended up retaking both classes and got A- in both. His lectures are useless, he dances around topics without ever coming to the point. Hard homeworks, and impossible exams. If only I could sue him and get my time & money back. Avoid him like plague!

The lectures were not detailed, way too short, and didn't cover most of the material that we were quizzed on. The only way to do well is to read the chapter of the week from the textbook and take notes over ALL of it. There's no guided exam prep. Professor seemed nice, but it would be in anyone's best interest to take this class with someone else.

I've never experienced such an incompetent professor in my life. I think he has zero empathy in understanding how first-time learners would view his material. The "difficulty" doesn't come at all from the content, but rather in his cumbersome, imprecise and useless way of teaching.

bro do not take this class. the only option is at 7:30am, and you don't want to sit there and hear him crack dad jokes for hours. he has a very strict layout for the quizzes and hw's, there's no mercy for late work. there's a hotseat each session, and you NEED to read the book. he will embarrass you in front of the whole lecture hall. worst prof.

Worst professor I ever have taken. Referred to himself in the third person in all his notes. Takes himself more so as a comedian than a professor. Teaches very little but still expects you to learn. Have taken him in two different classes and both had daily attendance quizzes that can be taken remotely. Both had a worthless paper at the end.

Professor's primary goal is to get the students to think he's funny. His grading system is completely arbitrary; in class work is an automatic A but he'll nitpick in great detail when grading anything else. If you're able to take ECON360 with another professor, do it. Wait a semester. Wait two semesters. Just don't take it with Benjamin Van Kammen.

Professor Van Kammen tries to care about his classes but his teaching style and use of time is wasteful. You are better off staying home and reading the textbook, if he didn't have a Hotseat question everyday that goes as a grade.

Can't teach.

Professor Van Kammen is a really nice person, but unfortunately, this amazing personality is completely outweighed by the fact that he is completely incapable of teaching. The class structure I was disorganized, and the exams are nothing like the homework and review, which makes studying redundant. Please take a different class if you want to excel

Professor Kammen is a fine person but he is just an awful professor. Lectures felt basically useless where he didn't teach things that were on the homework and exams were unreasonably difficult in comparison to what was shown in class and on homework. Do yourself a favor and take this class with any other professor.

Professor Van Kammen is a nice person, but an awful professor. The exams were completely different from the practice and reve

Buddy never shuts up but never talks about anything important ever

This guy does not teach in class, and will tell you to watch the lecture videos that are uploaded. What's the point of me going to class then? His main objective is to crack jokes. It's been 5 weeks in the semester and not for a single lecture has he taught anything.

1. The things he taught in class, like Stata is not needed in the homework nor the exams 2. There were only two practice exam questions given. For both exams, there is no cheat sheet. 3. The Final Project is a massive chunk of your grade, and he grades harshly. 4. You are forced to watch those 2 hours prerecorded lectures on top of going to class