She is not a great teacher. She does not give your test back even after 2 WEEKS, she does not admit it when she is wrong, her lecture is unorganized. She is literally the worst math teacher I had. She gets confused on her own and the other students has to tell her she did something backwards, she puts stuff you haven't even learn on the test.

Homework isn't graded (ex: 2 out of 0), but it's assigned every night. She cancelled class a few times, but did not give any explanation until several hours after the fact. Takes a very long time to return homework and tests. Vey disorganized. I felt like she wasted my time, even thought the class was a GUR

Beth is an amazing professor if you like to sit in uninformative lectures, being lost in tedious homework sets, and having a low C class average. As a side note, ask if you can use a notecard on the first exam because we could have but no one asked her so she decided not to tell us.

Take Beth's class if you like to spend hours teaching yourself things that should have been explained in class. She is late daily, her lectures are confusing, and has even admitted to being "a lazy grader." Went to her office hours for help and finished the assignment with her, only to get it back later that week with an F on it.

Worst math teacher I have ever had. She constantly messes up the examples she does for notes (lots of half done examples too) and answer keys for the homework making your notes and answer keys awful study resources. However, she's an incredibly tough grader and expects you to do the problems that she messes up, don't expect much partial credit.

My entire class bonded over her horrible wardrobe, harsh grading, and general dissatisfaction of the class. She often meantioned "if you come to class tomorrow" which made us feel like she didn't want us there. The final exam is HARD and worth 250 points so you can do great in all exams but the final and not pass. She was always late.

Very confusing lectures filled with mistakes that had to be corrected, and rarely covered all the material for homework. Often late, and once didn't even show up without warning. Tests were unnecessarily difficult, and her grading was quite harsh (little partial credit). I'm sure she's a nice person, but by far the worst professor I have had.

Had a worse record for coming to class on time than any students. A common wonder by our whole class was how she had a job as a professor. She was unclear in lecture, for example one day I couldn't go to class and taught myself a topic. The next day everyone was confused on a topic and I cleared it up b.c. she confused herself with her explanation.

Her homework assignment is pretty bad and very vague. She does not teach you much of anything, and I guess she hopes you get your information from google.

She would lecture on one section in class and the homework would be completely different. She shows the easy stuff that anyone can do and then you take the exams and youre screwed because she puts problems on the test that shes never taught you how to do. I would never take her again. The difficulty of her lectures never matches the exams.

She doesnt explain the material enough and it makes the tests and hw really hard, a lot of material is covered every day very fast paced and not gone over more than once, and she isnt understanding about problems with the work and is not very helpful outside of class. Make sure you staple your work or she will give you a C for no reason

Beth was probably one of the worst math teachers Ive ever had. Incredibly rude to her students, as well as not spending more than 20 mins on material, but spending 30+ minutes on homework review. Her office hours are more focused on one person although there is an upwards of 20 people waiting to ask questions. Over all very unorganized prof.

Beth is the worst professor I have had yet. She is passive aggressive to her students when seeking help and doesn't grade quickly. It took her almost three weeks to grade our first exam and grades questions on an all or nothing scale. If you are looking to teach yourself and still pay tuition credits then she is the right teacher for you.

Very unorganized with lectures and very hard to follow along. she is not good at answering questions and by the time you are doing homework youll have no idea whats going on.

Worst teacher I have ever had, and would not wish this pain on anyone. Does not teach in a way that is able to be understood. Never showed up to office hours that were given. Doesn't grade things on time. Answers your questions with more questions.

Goes insanely fast. Quizzes and tests are way harder than hw and in class work. Keeps plenty of office hours though. I dont know how you could pass without any extra help. The tutoring center helps and theres study groups. Be ready to spend a lot of time going over the material. Cant say Id recommend taking a class with her. Minimal notes too.

Maybe it's partly because school is online, but this class has been TERRIBLE. She doesn't even teach, just uploads her old ppt slides online for us to read. I need more than that for a class at this level. Answers hw questions 10 min before hw is due (seriously). Also grades everything at once and insanely late so good luck knowing pre final grade.

We have online classes this quarter and professor Schivitz has been awful. She doesn't record lectures or host zoom meetings, she literally just uploads the powerpoints (many of which had typos/incorrect info) and expects us to retain the information. I've learned more through other online resources than I did from her class. Very disappointing.

I have been in College for 3 years, and Never, (Including Highschool) have a had such a awful teacher. we are weeks behind, she has a personal crisis every other week. I am aware we are in a pandemic but this is insanity.

I didn't receive grades on any homework before the first exam, and I didn't receive a grade on the first exam before the second. The lectures were posted hours, sometimes days late, and the lectures themselves ranged from useless to misleading. I would have received better instruction from the textbook being announced over a broken train intercom.

Probably the laziest teacher Ive ever had. The lecture videos are worthless, and good luck getting any clarification. She is always making an excuse for why we havent gotten the past 2 quizzes graded then grades everything at once very harshly. No participation points, just dont do it she doesnt know how to teach.

Beth's class was strange. She never gave feedback on assignments and then she was kinda MIA for the rest of the quarter after the first test. She wasn't in office hours and she kept on delaying lectures such that we didn't complete the course material. She claimed that she was sick, but now that I read her other reviews, I feel like this is her MO.

Schivitz's class is a nightmare. She is more concerned with preventing cheating than actually having a functioning classroom. Her lectures are extremely confusing and low quality. Couldn't even reach out to classmates for help because she hidden everyone from each other and barely responded to emails at all. I have no idea how she's still teaching.

Literally the worst math instructor I have ever had. Did not care what her students thought of her or if they were learning. Didn't show up multiple times to her office hours and when student's brought up issues she would not listen and instead went on a whole email rant of why she was right and everyone was wrong. Horrible childish attitude.

Not accommodating at all. Only goes over homework/quizzes in class and her lectures/explanations are unhelpful and contradictory- I relied on outside tutoring and Khan Academy to get through the course. She takes an incredibly long time to grade assignments.

Don't take a class through beth if you can help it. She goes incredibly fast and doesn't give enough time for the class to actually understand the curriculum. Lots of homework and lots of stress. I tried going to the tutoring center but they often don't know how to do it, or they do it different than in class. Save yourself before it's too late!

She never grades anything on time. We got our test scores for Exam 3 and 4 the Monday of FINALS WEEK! She allowed us notecards for every test and threw them away afterwards saying "I didn't know you guys would want them back". When asked to curate a study guide for the final she said "just study everything". (1/2)

We are STILL waiting for a bunch of homework assignments to be graded. She has video lectures made and refuses to give us access to them, even if we have to miss class due to illness or COVID. Horrible teacher. Horrible class. AVOID AT ALL COSTS (2/2)

Literally the ONLY upside is that this is the only math class you need to take for your entire college career IF you pass. Keyword: IF. She has no respect for her student's time or money. She is consistently late on grading and there was one week where we missed 3 days of class because she canceled.

the hardest class ive ever taken. would not accept late work at all, but if she cancelled classes three times a week, thats okay! she expected us to accommodate for her, but would never do the same. she would also speed through lectures like we knew what she was supposed to be teaching us. horrible grader and had no respect for my classmates and i.

Especially as a freshman, this class was beyond frustrating. Class was constantly canceled and whenever I emailed I hardly got a response. I never knew what to work on because almost none of the assignments were graded or handed back until the final week! She made sure to let us know we were basically to teach ourselves through the textbook. AWFUL!

Is bad at her job

Gives barely any information for lectures then throws tons of homework that you won't understand how to do.

Beth is literally the worst and laziest math teacher I have ever had the displeasure of meeting. Her TA's seem constantly stressed/confused/overwhelmed and the material jumps around from algebra 2 concepts all the way to high level calculus. No late work accepted. Lectures almost never contain the material needed to complete the homework. Horrible.

Beth was not friendly at all. I was marked 20% off homework assignments because I turned in 3 pictures of work instead of 1, because it was too difficult to grade. So I got points taken off of my homework because I showed too much work. She rushes through class. Would not recommend to anyone.

Schivitz isn't easily accessible to her students, making class more difficult than it should be. Office hours were limited and grading was slow (often upwards of 1 month for small assignments + exams). Lectures were unorganized and she often failed to answer student questions. Incessant self advocacy is the key to success in Schivitz's class.

Constantly would forget how to do a problem when she was teaching. She wouldn’t give proper information about what was going to be on the test. She just struggled to even get her point across in lectures and just was very hard to follow. The concepts aren’t hard to understand but she confused me more then helped. YouTube was more helpful.

She is not a good teachers. She will not explain anything properly, and move at wildly inconsistent pacing. She assigns very large portions of homework and barely gives help on them as well as putting most of the blame for lack of understanding on students. She talks in an extremely condescending way and acts as if everyone is an idiot.

If I could give a zero as a rating for this professor I would do so. Brainless teaching with zero explaination. Reads off a script and writes on a chalk board with a projector screen right behind her to make things worse. Whoever signed her off to obtain the title as a college math professor is taking hard drugs. 5/10 highschool teacher at best.

This is my second rating on Beth, to further state that her outrageously quick and unresponsive teaching style is what makes this class hard, I benefit more from wathing a 5 minute youtube video on graphing logs more than her 3 day lecture on the topic. I pray that anyone registering for Math 114 sees this page and avoids her at all cost.

Beth Schivitz is by far the worst teacher I have ever had. She has an absolute inability to explain things in an efficient and concise manner. Sometimes in class it seems that she doesn’t even know what she is talking about. On top of this, she made many mistakes during class causing further confusion. Avoid Beth at all costs.

If you struggle with math, don't take this class. The teacher is frustrating and doesn't answer questions, expecting students to know all the concepts beforehand. The homework is never related to the classwork, and the exams are confusing and elaborate. Don't expect to learn very much.

This class made all of my previous math trauma just fizz back up. HORRIBLE instruction. Math 114 should not be treated as a weed-out class. Terrible beyond words.

I had the worst experience in this class. I generally enjoy math but Beth made my life so difficult. I've never failed a class but with her lack of answering/going over questions made me. We would have review days and a student would ask a question. She'd say "I don't want to get into that right now."

Failed this class after passing 112 with a high B. I never even met Beth, I had one of her ta's, but she is horrible. She doesn't respond to emails and neither do her ta's. She does everything late. You will be set up for failure.

Immensely tedious class with absurd grading rubrics. It seemed like they were trying to find places to take away points. Taught by a TA, it was his first time teaching so I don't blame him, but the material was not taught very well and the only source for this information was the TA. I had to contest every score I received and was dismissed.

she fly's through the work in class and doesn't answer questions very well and in my experience she would show up a couple minutes late to class

Seems I'm having similar difficulties with her lack of teaching, and comprehension of material. I'm going to start utilizing her office hours and the tutoring center more, because I know I can pass with a low grade but I do not want to take 112 again, nor have Schivitz.

Daily homework, graded for attendance, homework graded for accuracy, exams graded for every tiny piece of the problems. Because of this you can understand the content very well and still get a crappy grade. You will only get a good grade if you are a total perfectionist. however, you get notecards for exams. Class is mostly run and graded by TAs.

In all honesty, this was one of the worst math classes I have ever taken. Not because she was terrible or a hard ass but because her teaching style is so terrible. Be prepared for homework not matching the test, WRONG ANSWER KEYS, TAUGHT BY TAs, PSYCICS QUESTIONS, and CONFUSING TEACHING METHODS. Just don't take this class.

I usually get A's in math courses, but I barely got though with an A-. It's kind of what I expected from a 5 credit math course: homework every day and tough grading. You get points off homework if you have wrong answers. However, it was helpful being able to use a note card for exams and a regular sized paper for the final as well. Taught by TAs.

Do not take a class with her if you don't have to. She reads her lectures off of PowerPoints that are 20-30 slides long and confusing. Homework is graded by TAs who only tell you that you're "incorrect" with no further explanations. She teaches Math 099 like it's Math 112 and complicates things far more than they need to be.

She over complicates topics that should be simple. She is a tough grader and will mark you wrong for not showing work the way she wants you to. Furthermore, instead of teaching she has you do group work to learn. It takes her forever to grade quizzes and homework is graded on correctness. Do not take her if you can.

Instead of actually teaching the class you do group work. If you get a problem wrong on homework or quizzes all you're told is that you're "incorrect", there's never any feedback and you aren't told what's wrong. She's the definition of unhelpful. I'm probably going to fail this class and if I had a different professor, that wouldn't be the case.

She takes weeks to grade group work and quizzes, doesn't explain things well, and talks to students in a very condescending way if they're confused or stuck on something. I learned absolutely nothing in this class and struggled the whole time, students in the tutoring center were more helpful than her. To put it simply, don't take her class.

Would take entire points off in homework if you made one singular mistake in the work, not even the answer. There is basically no preparation for any quizzes and is all based on homework. Takes forever explaining simple concepts which could definitely be used to cover more difficult questions.

Whatever you do do not take a class with Beth or her TA's. I had to learn all the material myself or on Khan Academy on my own time. The tests also don't reflect what we learned in class or the textbook. You are set up to fail.

She isn't understanding of accommodations, I got accepted to receive them and she said that they didn't apply to the circumstances, she made me miss a test and I can't retake it.

Not a good professor.

she failed me by one point after now answering any of my emails all quarter after trying to contact her multiple times about my absences due to my dying sick mom, mind you who died finals week. She neglected to communicate and She would sit in class on her phone and make us do book work for hours and would make you feel dumb for having questions

Homework is due 24 hours after class (midday) no extensions or late work. Homework takes several hours to complete (think 10-30 minutes per problem) Notes for TA's were terrible and had little to no actual instruction. I've had her for other classes before and unfortunately she's a terrible professor. If you want to succeed, don't pick her.