This woman is not really that great of a teacher. I'm the person who prefers to teach themselves, you have the slides on Blackboard, they do not have actual problems. Want homework? Buy WileyPlus. Want to pass the project? Buy MiniTab. She doesn't talk about the theory for why it is, she doesn't even use R like the other ones. Just don't take her.

Nope. Absolutely not. Instant regret. She is a very caring and kind person but just can't convey statistics to the class. At one point she will be on one side of the board, then the next, until your head is spinning. The worst thing is that she punishes you for wanting to learn on your own and doesn't take into account those who learn differently.

Nice person terrible professor

Cheryl has no problem with her students failing and just suggest they drop the class instead of trying to help the class learn.

If i could give her a 0 I would. She never answers her emails and throws the tests at us after giving us an exam review that has nothing to do with the test questions. Half the class would always fail the exams and she would not curve them. Not good at teaching. All this class did for me was stress me out.

I would highly recommend not taking this class. I took it virtually my freshman year. Ive taken multiple previous math classes and did very well but in this class I failed all the exams. She never posts the lectures on time and doesnt respond to emails. Save yourself the tears, stress, and time and take this class with another instructor

Do. Not. Take. This. Class. Please, take anyone else. Ive taken higher level stat courses and done very well, this class was absolutely ridiculous. She has no idea how to teach a virtual class. She blamed the students when 72 people FAILED her exam. She takes no accountability. Save your gpa, take someone else.

does not care about her students at all. cannot teach an online class. she posts lectures late, doesnt respond to emails, when 72 students failed her exam she said that wasnt her problem and to drop the class. please do not take this class unless you want to waste your tears and stress!

She is not a good teacher, I have not learned a single thing this whole semester and struggled to teach myself everything. She gives one HW assignment weekly, no quizzes and only 3 exams. Hasnt updated anything other than exams in grade book leaving many students wondering if they'll even pass. I recommend avoiding at all cost

Has not actually taught anything in class. Assigns an insane amount of homework and expects students to teach themselves. My most problematic class by far.

Im usually pretty understanding when it comes to not liking professors, but the fact that this women couldnt care less that 72 people failed her exam and she took no accountability. Insane. Take anyone else.

The notes she provides does not match up to her homework/exams/what she talks about in class. The organization is not existent. 2 weeks left in class and we have yet to experience assignments posted on time.

If you can't teach yourself everything about this class, take literally ANYONE else. She does not care about her students and isn't willing to help. If you have her as a teacher, don't bother emailing her because she will probably never respond.

In our 200+ class, 73 students failed midterm and 98 others got a C or D BUT she yelled at us & blamed us despite her not providing the proper material for us to succeed. She does not make our exams but uses her own power-points-- nothing translates to our weekly homework or tests. Mandatory to get $15 i-clicker but we used it once? DONT TAKE HER.

Cheryl Black is not a good professor. The fact that 72+ people failed an exam in a 110 level class is a loud enough statement. She then took no responsibility for it despite the fact that she will not upload her notes (70+ pages a chapter) until the evening before live lecture. The entire semester she has been scatterbrained and full of excuses.

I'm sure she tries to be as good of a professor as she can, I found her class impossible to take. She gives an insane amount of homework, and expects you to learn the material yourself if you want to do well on the homework. But, her tests are open note, so if you can learn the material and take good notes, you'll be fine. Don't take the class.

Please save yourself and do not take this class. I feel bad because she literally does not know how to teach anyone or anything. She made this class 10x harder than it needed to be. Does not respond back quick and when she does, she is rude and condescending. Also, she doesnt post notes or homework until Thursday when its due Friday.

This professor was the worst professor I think that I've ever had. The lack of effort and care that she had for her students during the time of the pandemic was pathetic. Ince it was an online stats class it was built to be difficult but she just wouldn't put grades in, we only have 3 exams but each of those are 25% of out grade.

For the love of god, avoid this woman at all costs. I feel that her goal is to confuse her students and doesnt care if we fail. No accountability. PLEASE FIND A DIFFERENT PROFESSOR.

This was the worst professor I have ever had. She does not respond to emails, her notes are nothing like her exams, and when you come to her with questions she explains it in a way that you cannot even understand. Her exams are hard for no reason with only 10-20 questions, so if you miss one that could ruin your grade. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS!!!

DON'T TAKE HER!!!! If you want a good, caring, and reasonable teacher she is not it. She expects you to do everything on your own. She reads off a pre-made powerpoint and doesn't even know how to do the real material. She is clueless when it comes to answerin any questions and not to mention is awful at explaining any assignment. Good luck lol.

Would never take her again. She sent an email saying that she was disappointed in us failing even though over 80% of the class failed. She was very rude about it and couldnt figure out how to teach online or use her mic so we could hear her

I could tell online teaching was not her thing. Maybe she would be better in person, but truthfully this class was harder than my business statist 206. Bragged about how 70 people failed an exam, but isn't that a reflection of the teacher? Nice to me but reviews, lectures, homework and exams did not match up. Stay away.

Do not take anything with this professor especially if its online. She will not prepare you for any of the material in her ridiculously difficult tests. A PowerPoint is released at the beginning of every week to go over the material, and her lectures consist of reading the PowerPoint youve already read. I struggled all semester, do not take it.

She is very test heavy, and most of your grade relies on 3 exams. The optional final was at a really weird limited amount of time, and she makes online very difficult. She does give a lot of material to really understand the questions that will be asked on the test. Dont take her class!

She did not care about her students at all, and did not try to help anyone. I did not learn a thing in the class, and was never once actually lectured.

Worst professor I have ever had. If I could give her a 0 I would. Long, boring lectures. Study guides that are not at all similar to the exam. Things on the exam that we covered for 2 seconds in class. Never responds to emails and when she does theyre passive aggressive. No excused absences, not even for Covid.

Reads directly off of slide presentations... probably not made by herself. Reads all the material and problems but does not explain/teach it. Does not teach how to do it on the calculator either... but tests are online and open note... which doesn't help if she doesn't teach you how to do it. Feels pointless to even go to class anymore.

Cheryl claimed that we needed the textbook, however we never used it. iClicker questions and participation every class. Yes, she does have the location services turned on. She is extremely unresponsive to emails and does not communicate her points well and contradicts herself. However, even if youre bad at math this class is fairly easy.

This woman is an awful professor. She is unable to follow a line of thought and her exams are like nothing seen in class. She also refuses to curve her exams even when the whole class scores poorly. She is the worst teacher I have ever had for anything, ever. If you ever have to take a stats class, stay as far away as possible from Cheryl Black.

This class is very hard if you havent taken Stats before. The exams/review dont match with notes. EXTREMELY boring lectures. final exam replaces your lowest of 3 exam grades which helps. Homework doesnt match exams/class and is useless and takes FOREVER. The exams were open note online but if you missed 1-3 question youre at a B. DO NOT take her!

Let me just start off by saying the third exam our class had the class average was 64 and she did not even think once about curving it. The whole class almost failed the exam and she did NOT care at all. This should be an easy class. I took stat in high school and got a 99 then took this intro to stat class and got a 86. Getting an A is hopeless.

Very nice lady, but easily the worst classroom experience Ive ever had in my life. Exams have very little to do with the instruction or homework, yet they determine your grade almost completely.

She is a fairly nice lady, but her class is painfully boring and her class gets very complicated as it goes on. She requires attendance and gives quiz questions during class. I would recommend staying away from taking this class with Cheryl.

Exams are usually around 15 questions, if you get a few wrong you are already in the B-C range, exams are worth 80% of your grade and what she goes over in class isn't very helpful. She basically just reads off the slides and expects you to do well on the exams. People were getting 10s-20s on our exams and she still didn't curve.

Nice lady, but this is the worst class I've had at USC. Exams were completely open book and somehow a sizeable portion of the class still failed (including myself on the final)

Don't take the class. Doesn't explain anything and is super confusing. just goes through slides and makes random comments that don't make sense. find another class!

Don't ever take this class. the tests are hard and don't make sense at all and the book makes more sense than the professor. don't take this course with this professor.

She makes the material seem way more complex than it is and is very boring to listen to in general. Take the class online, even if you don't learn online you'll be in the exact same position as someone in her class, learning nothing. the only difference is you don't actually have to sit in a room with 100 people for an hour every other day.

Seriously do not recommend taking her course. You will be teaching yourself every chapter without guidance and (at least for my class) there are no SI Sessions and she is barely available after hours even if you're willing to go that extra mile.

Do not take Cheryl. Each exam is 20% of your grade and she doesn't offer extra credit. Her office hours are not easily accessible as they are online and you have to sign up for them ahead of time. Her lectures are not easy to follow if you don't know stats lingo. Even if you get a 100 on most of the home work it doesn't help your grade.

Do not take this class. She is very incompetent and cannot teach the material. Her lectures are way too long and she will not let you out of class until the last minute. Do not buy the textbook we did not really use it so don't waste money. Her tests are incredibly challenging and do not match what she teaches in class.

Strongly advise against taking Black. Very nice lady, but to pass, you will have to teach yourself all the material. Exams are online, but extremely difficult, and you can't find the answers by searching them up. Exams have no option to show work, and most questions aren't multiple choice, so one typo or slight miscalculation and it's over for you

Professor Black is very nice but when it comes to teaching material about stats she's not the best. The whole class she just lectures off a presentation and barely offers any in-class practice problems. I even went to an SI and a tutor, and both were having some difficulty trying to understand what was being taught. Overall, a frustrating class.

She is a really nice woman but she is bad at teaching. She uses complicated formulas for easy concepts. I took this in high school and she confused me more than helped me. Notes, homework, and tests all don't really correlate which is frustrating. She writes all the questions herself so you cant look them up. Grade is all about the tests.

She seems to be very knowledgable on the material, but her lecture notes made the content so much more confusing, and I didn't really understand when she was lecturing.

Only reads what's on the PowerPoint and gives formulas. Never shows how to use a calculator or excel. So many questions on the test you'll run out of time.

When paying attention to her lectures, you will be more confused than if you look at the PowerPoint presentations she has posted. She gives you textbook formulas and not actual formulas that are understandable. I took AP Statistics and am still confused. You can miss four classes over the semester she will drop it along with your lowest exam grade.

As someone who loves stats and passed the AP Stat exam in high school, the exams in this class were unbelievably difficult and had me panicking up until the last second before I ran out of time. Kind professor but does not teach well at all. My friends in other Stat classes had a completely different experience. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS.

Very sweet lady but this class was awful. I really don't recommend taking unless you have taken stats in high school, I didn't and was completely lost even though I studied and paid attention in class. Tests are online open everything but are very difficult, homework doesn't align with exams. Chegg is essential for teaching yourself course content.

The exams had nothing to do with any notes or any material from class. if you take Cheryl black it's practically a necessity to buy Chegg. You'll struggle heavily without it. I'm an A student but her class was nearly impossible to get an exceptional grade in. I still have nightmares about Cheryl Black's Stat 110 class over a year later.

Her notes are hard to learn from and her lectures are impossible to pay attention to. Your grade is mainly determined by your exams and homework. Would not recommend, so hard to learn the material.

While she is a sweet lady, she cannot teach statistics. She has canceled class multiple times, does not teach the material in an understanding way, and relies on her SI sessions, which also get canceled often. If you struggle in math, cannot self-teach well, or have never taken statistics, then DO NOT take her.

Probably the worst stats professor you could take. Lectures are extremely boring and really hard to follow. She was often asked questions in class and couldn't provide a sensible answer. In other words, just a clueless professor who will not teach you a thing about statistics. Don't take her, thank me later.

Her lectures were all over the place and hard to follow/learn from. I only did well because of taking ap stats. She will be a hard professor if you don't have any previous stats knowledge.

RUNNNNN!!! No joke I read all these comments and thought it wouldn't be too bad BUT IT WAS. You can't teach yourself the material unless you have taken stats in the past and even then SHE MOVES SO FAST. You will have no idea what she is talking about half the time and her lectures are not easy to follow. Literally ruined my GPA.

Puts you to sleep. Requires attendance and uses iClicker. All questions she asks are rhetorical. Homeworks have to be done online (defeats the point of a math class.) Homework is due SATURDAY night for some reason. Pulls the questions straight out of the book, a few times I had to explain to her why the "correct" answers were actually incorrect.

Nice person, terrible teacher, boring class, mandatory iClicker. Reads slides then asks rhetorical questions. Messes up her words, forgets her thoughts, gets distracted easily. She makes it a pain to learn, making you try harder that you should for a basic stats class. You can get a good grade cause tests are online, but still take someone else.