Stay far away! Aplia HW doesn't coincide with lecture. Very, very hard class. Very poor teaching style. No set day when HW is due, often changing it. Not opening Aplia for other assignments until last daychanging it on you. He does apply a curve to grade. Assignments due the first dayweek ,not announced in class or on BB, so get on Aplia ASAP.

Worst teacher I've had at ASU. His grading scale is ridiculous. 75% exams (3 exams) and 25% homework. He does not teach what's on the homework. It is unnecessarily hard. Not to mention you do not get a review for any of his tests. His excuse is, "This is my first time writing a multiple choice test in 40+ years." You will be extremely unprepared.

This class is very unorganized. The professor is consistently late to class and lectures past scheduled class time. A majority of lecture is recap of previous lecture; 10 min. new material. The homework assignments (off topic) are completed through MindTap and he often changes the due dates without informing students, even on the day they are due.

DO NOT take online class with this professor. Take it from the student who's lowest grade is A-, this class is horrible. The graded syllabus quiz is based on a old syllabus which you do not have. Exam questions look VERY different from practice one. Many students failed just on Exam 1. Don't expect Marburger to be there for you.

no credit, Average homework.

Hands down the worst professor I have ever had. Tests are impossible and are weighted 75%, randomly decided to start taking attendance points with a month left of the semester, lectures are useless, exams are structured so that you're guaranteed fail. If you want to actually learn and not want to stab yourself stay far far away.

Marbuger is quite possibly the worst professor I have had at ASU. Don't let his animated lectures fool you. He is the most DISORGANIZED professor. Course is too heavily weighted on exams, which he NEVER goes over the content never even said concepts were cumulative on final, no study guides. Is not clear on course content at any point during sem.

Marburger is the worst professor I've ever taken. He will try and be funny (it's cringe) and will expand endlessly on tangents. Homework and exams will be miles off of the dribble he talks about in class. Attendance is mostly mandatory because of moblab experiments. Avoid this guy at all costs.

Worst class ever, he just yells and rambles every lecture. No study guides for the tests. SAVE YOUR GPA don't take!

Marburger id the worst professor I've her had. He goes very fast on PowerPoint slides and I couldn't keep up. Plus his tests are extremely hard and have nothing to do with what I learned in class. DO NOT TAKE!!!!

Marburger is a terrible professor. Don't take him and avoid at all costs. His lectures don't make any sense and he'll spend half a class talking about something that doesn't relate to the course material. He does random questions in class for points that you have to be there for and he is truly out to get students. Don't take him, he is the worst.

You learn more Micro than Macro in this Macroeconomics class. The professor is not content with his position.

I would avoid this professor unless you can't. It's hard to pay attention in lecture because he's very loud and literally yells the lecture. Also, prepare to do a lot of the work on your own because you're going to need to teach yourself. He claims that you need to be in class to pass, but you need to go above and beyond to pass. Good luck.

This guy is as dry as a dog biscuit. He drones on for 50 minutes about his political ideology and shows a slideshow that is way too broad to help you. I wouldn't take this guy again for money. Tests are 70% of your grade and there's only 3.

He doesn't even provide his own lectures/powerpoints. He's a teacher that doesn't teach. Good luck on homework because the few videos in the text are not enough. Then the three tests (huge part of your grade) have absolutely nothing to do with HW you spent hours on. "Adaptive test prep" and studying for DAYS helps but not enough to get an A tests

Marburger is the absolute worse. He doesn't answer questions you have and is inconsistent with emails. If he doesn't feel like answering your email, he WILL ignore it while you keep on waiting. In class he keeps on shouting and throwing out desperate jokes that no one finds funny. DON'T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE AS ME! AVOID AT ALL COST!

First semester of freshmen year, took econ 211 and was hit with a 140$ software program to do the homework. Teacher is unawar of that his lessons he teaches in class don't match up with the homework you are assigned weekly. Brags about his PHD which i do not see how he has one for how unintelligent he is. Test are multiple choice but are very hard.

I had a hard time learning from Marburger. He is enthusiastic & an expert in his field, but I just could not make sense of his long lectures. Maybe I am just bad at econ, but his use of complicated analogies & metaphors made it very hard for me to understand the basics. Homework is easy & online, participation points every class, exams are hard!

This class was awful. Very test heavy, lectures don't match the homework or the tests. Better off sitting at home and reading the book and doing the homework, but oh wait, attendance is mandatory. Probably the worst college class I have ever taken.

I went into this class knowing more econ than I left knowing. The lectures were a bunch of stories unrelated to the topics and the exams are based on homework so it seems like there's no reason to go, except you need your MobLab points. Honestly, he just pissed me off. Final grades had to be curved because people were failing. I got an 80 as a B+

The professor is terrible. I did the homework for the last chapter and I found out that he doesn't count it and also it is the wrong chapter. I emailed him and he said it is your responsibility to do the homework. I ended up with one homework uncompleted and one that I actually did do it end up not counting. Would not take this class through him.

Worst class I've ever taken. I attended every lecture and took detailed notes and still had no idea when it came to homework and exams. Many times he would go off on tangents and spend the class talking about things completely unrelated to class setting us back in lessons which resulted to cramming many lessons into one day and much confusion.

Self absorbed and often went off topic to rant about unrelated subjects.

He doesnt actually teach whats on the homework or tests, instead he basically rambles on for the period of the entire lecture. He repeats the most useless things he can find and doesnt teach us anything on the homeworks. The tests are 70% of the grade with an accumulative final which is almost impossible to know whats gonna be on it

legit the worst teacher I have had since 1st grade (wasnt a big fan of my first grade teacher). Tests are worth 70% that is not related to the homework or lectures. The lectures are not related to the homework, and the homework is not related to the tests. He doesnt provide you with study guides and tests on uncovered topics. Find a different prof

Just try to take this class with another professor. That makes your life a lot easier. This guy basically doesnt teach anything in his lecture.

DANIEL MARBURGER is the worst prof. I have had in my 5 semesters at ASU. He just does not care about his students. He is selfish. He thinks he funny when he just sounds like an idiot. Also, his lectures are pointless I had to read each section carefully and he didn't include half of the stuff that was in the book. DONT TAKE

Professor Marburger may be one of the worst professor's I have ever had. The test are 70% of your grade and you have homework due every week that is only worth 20% of your grade. He is a good teacher during class, but the test are very hard and nothing like his lectures. Do not take this guy, find another professor.

Look. Dont take this prof. He screwed me up and down this ENTIRE semester. If you want a fair chance to pass macro dont take it with him. I dont have enough characters to tell you all this guy did. Ill leave it with only 1% he failed me and put in a failing final grade without grading all of my assignments

I honestly didn't know it was possible to be this bad at teaching. There are Moblab quizzes every class, and if you get the question wrong you don't get attendance points. His exams were pretty hard, also. I have no idea how I finessed a B in this course, shoutout to the tutoring center I guess. If you take his class, be ready to teach yourself.

An A is possible, but only because he curves the CLASS so much that an A- started at an 83. Spent HOURS taking notes, studying, doing adaptive test prep, and crying. Exams are worth 70% of your grade, are only 30 multiple choice q's each, and are a gazillion times harder than the material covered in "lectures." Not sure how I managed to do well.

Our class average for many of our tests was below 60 which just shows you this man cannot teach and his tests reflect that. He didn't curve anything and as a result I got a C because no matter how hard I studied his tests are just a brick wall.

Both exams we have taken have had the average score of 55 or lower. Dont even bother studying because barely anything on the reviews or practice problems show up on the test. Thought I was beyond prepared and still got a D on the exam. This class should not be so text heavy if ASU expects anyone to complete it with a passing grade w marburger.

Professor Marburger does not care about his class or the grades they have. Both tests we have taken so far have had an average of under 60 percent and he does not seem to care. His attitude is to put out the material and let his students figure it out for themselves. He is not flexible and does not have his students best intentions in mind.

Professor Marburger is the worst teacher I have encountered from preschool till the present. His teaching style is horrible and he is unwilling to show human compassion towards students. Do yourself a favor and find another teacher to take this class with!

I just graduated, had this Prof. for 2 semesters for my BA and can confirm he is easily the worst instructor I've ever had. 3 tests worth 70% of your grade and an extremely tough grader. broad self-centered lectures (15+PowerPoint lectures about the history of Sports, usually about where hes from, in an ECN class) Hard to reach & cynical responses

I am a straight-A student and can usually get the hang of concepts. This professor throws around formulas and new vocabulary w/o organization. He uses real-world examples for concepts we do not understand yet and talks aimlessly during the whole lecture. On mind tap, the hw questions are worded completely different than what you hear in class.

lectures are so simplified it seems like its for children, then the homeworks are very hard and exams are pretty tough. you only get participation credit if you get clicker questions correct which isnt fair because sometimes they're pretty tricky. he tries to be funny in lecture but all it does is screw us over for homework and exams.

Doesn't care about students in my opinion. Didn't provide study material for his exams which were extremely difficult. When students asked for more study materials, he just told us to do practice problems from our homework. He explained the material in such a simple manner, when you got to the homework or exam, It was very difficult.

Doesn't understand or cover global trade issues with nuance, and ignores students providing additional context to unfairly represented issues.

Dont do it.

He doesn't explain the material well and many people have complained about him. He skips fastly through a slideshow which doesn't help if you are a visual learner because you can't see the work step-by-step. The class average for our tests has been D minus. Be prepared to do in-class participation that impacts your grade A LOT. Don't do it.

Prof. Marburger was honestly the single most unorganized professors I have ever had in all of my years of schooling. Does not transfer grades correctly, waits to insert grades for weeks sometimes months, aside from tests which are immediately added but not graded correctly EVER. Average class grade on the exams were below 65% and never curved.

Dont take this class with this professor, he is unfair and harsh on the grading. There is a reason this rating is HORRIBLE.

Professor Marburger had lecture 3 times a week. If you dont go its recorded so that was nice, but the lectures were basically just him reading off a PowerPoint, which he reads off very quickly. Also, when he explains things in the lecture it seems so easy, but the homeworks and tests are a lot harder. You have to actually know concepts to pass.

This is the worst class I have taken in my entire life. I only got an A- because everyone failed and he had to curve it substantially. I initially had a C. Do not take this class. 0/10

This class is test heavy and the class average for tests was D. Participation in class is 1 pt if correct, but zero points if incorrect. The homework is averaged out based on your attempts. It's very hard to get points in this class to make up for bad test grades.

Unnecessarily harsh grader and grades assignments (syllabus and orientation things) the do not need to be counted towards final grades. The concepts are already difficult to grasp and creates an even more stressful environment that is not conducive to actually absorbing and learning the material.

Although the professor is interactive during lectures often the exams and homeworks are still hard and confusing to complete. The class grades also result to be at a very low level since preparing for the exams does not help very much. Much of the material given to you to study does not help at all. Many students end up dropping the class.

This class is incredibly easy, basically high-school-level stuff with some real-world application. However, this dude couldn't teach a group of fish to swim. I am baffled that prof Marburger has a Ph.D. because he can't even explain elasticity. He will explain something one way, whine about the "intuition", and then the hw is different "intuition".

Do not take a class with Daniel! Grades are based on: 60% exams, 20% HW, 20% MobLab. He gives you one MobLab question a class and if you answer wrong you get a 0. He grades HW like he's the most successful economist in the world. He won't let you attend class on zoom - no matter the circumstances. Worst professor I've ever had, as a senior.

Honestly, probably the worst professor I've ever had. All he does in class is runs small exercises that he expects everyone to participate in (they don't help learn anything. Pretty much just common sense). Then he assigns homework with 3 attempts and it takes the average so there is really no room for error when homework should be for learning.

He is very extra and only takes attendance through MOBLAB but you have to get the question right for it to be counted. I like that he drops the 3 lowest moblab grads. But I'm not a fan of his teaching methods.

Definitely one of my worst professors, very egotistical and tries to make everything too funny. Gets upset when you don't raise your hand for his voting things, even if they're pointless. I did well in econ in highschool but not in this class. Attendance is based on MobLab, which half the time didn't even connect for me. Not a very flexible guy.

Extremely test heavy class. Attendance is mandatory because of the moblab questions and each moblab you get wrong even if you were there and paying attention for the whole period will doc you 2% of your entire class grade. Worst teacher I have ever had. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS!!!

Lecture heavy course with little detail to concepts. Assignments, exams, reviews would be added to canvas very last minute before due dates. Homework was graded by taking average of 3 attempts per question. Power Points were plain, so if you follow along you would be confused and what exactly it is saying. Mandatory attendance.

Marburger offered little to no detail in his lectures. He offers 1-point moblab questions for every class. These count more toward your grade than the tests. THE ENTIRE class is comprised of ONE THOUSAND AND NINE HUNDRED slides from which maybe 5% contain material that will be on the test. I've not been blindsided by a teacher so hard, ever.

Lectures are very long but 3/4 of material is not on the tests. Homework-graded by an average of three attempts(most people got terrible grades on them), moblab questions every class-get it wrong you'll have 0/1. The SI reviews are not that helpful and the study guides do not prepare you well for the tests. The mean of the final was 17.6/30 (58.6%)

This teacher spends the whole class using analogies and metaphors instead of just telling you how a certain topic is. The homework is graded on an average grade so if you mess up on one part it brings your homework grade down by a lot. He also graded attendance, and even if you pay attention and get it wrong it brings your grade down.

I would recommend avoiding this professor for your classes. This was the worst experience with a professor I've had at ASU. Not because he was overly rude or rigorous but because there was little to no involvement or direction given throughout the course. No study guidelines or suggestions for exams, which by the way were each about 40 questions.

Lectures do not relate to test material. Examples are horrible. Mob Lab questions are worth way too much of your grade. My grade in the class was a 53% but he curved the grade scale so much because everyone failed the last test and I ended up getting a C. I'm happy with that of course, but that should tell you he doesn't know what he is teaching.

Prepare to teach yourself as he lectures the whole time using examples that are so far fetched they don't even make since and are not easily comparable to the real world. He doesn't assign much homework but be prepared to teach yourself the topics for all assignments. You won't learn anything in class but still have to go for in class assignments.

Do not take this class. He is a very tough grader, he only gives 2 exams which are each worth 60% of your grade. He also makes attendance mandatory by using moblab. Moblab is one question per class, you have 2 minutes to answer, 1 attempt, and is worth way too much of your grade (20%). To be honest, I wish I had looked at his reviews before.

Terrible Professor. Probably the worst teacher I've experienced throughout high school/college. Class consists on a boring 60 min lecture that teaches you basically nothing. The homework is ridiculous, it's based on averages on each question instead of your best score. Doesn't help in preparing you for the test and expects you to learn it yourself.

Nobody actually passes the class so he has to curve the grades by a large amount. Hard to get you grade up after failing exams because there isn't a lot of other assignments. Have to go to class in order to do mob lab which is worth a decent amount of your grade.

Basically, homework and Moblabs are super easy to understand which made me think the class would be easy. But the tests had about 15 questions using concepts that we did not go over in lectures. My test grades were horrible because of this. *I did learn a lot from him in lectures, but the tests were NOTHING like lectures and there was no studyguide

One of the most difficult I have ever had. Do not recommend sitting through never-ending PowerPoints that don't connect with homework. Be aware that he does not stop to answer questions, and if you have one be prepared to receive a side eye. Only 3 tests are graded for the whole class, it is graded on a curve but still be prepared to study.

Took this course in the summer and i wish i would've taken any other professor. He's the worst professor and does not care about his students.Homework is nothing like the test and he doesn't even give out study guides. No curves on test and none get dropped. Would not recommend!!!

Choose any other professor, yes even the ones with similar ratings. He truly doesn't have the student's success in mind.

Tests riddled with typos and answer options that are either all incorrect or all correct. Not allowed to see which questions were marked incorrect so I can't even dispute it. Professor wasn't even present online for the first two days of the course and has neglected to answer questions since. This is by far the worst professor I have ever had.

He doesn't care about his students at all and his tests are so hard. I wish I took a different teacher cause he is so bad at teaching. He is also so boring.

Took Marburger in the Fall of 2023. His lectures were very confusing to follow and I only received a B because I meticulously read the textbook. He yells his frustrations when students don't answer his questions or show up to class. Would recommend taking another professor if you need a professor that is focused on student success.

Worst Professor. Went off topic and the exams were nothing like homework or what we did in class. Had to drop because I knew I wasn't going to pass. Only gives one chance on the homework, which is hard, while other classes got 3. Don't do this class

I honestly think he has early-onset dementia. The tangents he goes on in his lectures do not refer to the exams, you're better off teaching yourself off the online textbook. Also the attendance moblab is not based on completion, but rather correct or incorrect, so you might as well have been absent if you get the question wrong. jus dont fr

this guy's class is awful, he goes on rants and doesn't make any sense talking about COVID all day long, he does not teach take a different class if you can online is better this guy is liberal and will indoctrinate you with anything but econ, he gives examples that last an hour and makes you pay for his attendance, his canvas grades isn't correct

Lectures are broad. He messed up the grade book at the beginning of the semester and still hasn't changed it (it's the end of the semester and the final is tomorrow).60% of the grade is based on the 3 tests we have, which are only 30 questions each. Homework is based on the average score out of 3 attempts. Overall, a very frustrating course.

Just an awful class, stay away

STAY AWAY! The structure of this class does not make sense and lectures are a waste of your time. He is a very likable guy but not a great teacher.

Do not take this professor if you want to pass this class. His lectures were never on topic and you have to get the MOBLAB questions correct to receive your attendance points. I went to his office hours several times and he was quite rude and short with me. Will be reporting him to ASU.

This guy sucks. He doesn't know how to use Canvas properly and gives you a zero for a SAILS attendance assignment that he explicitly tells you not to do, meaning your total attendance score is split in half, greatly reducing your grade until the end of the semester, leaving you clueless on where you stand in the class. Useless lectures too.

Not technologically savvy. Had everyone's grades inputted incorrectly on Canvas for entire semester. Had to go onto MyASU to find out what my actual grade was on my transcript once the class was over. Tests hard and weighted heavily. Has boring lectures. Attendance is not only mandatory but getting the question wrong doesn't count for any points.

Daniel Marburger clearly knows a lot about economics, but not so much about how to be a good teacher. Marburger grades heavily on homework (which should be for completion...), class attendance (which you only receive if you get the question correct and are usually hard) and tests (which are hard and takes hours of studying). Don't take Marburger.

I have nothing but negative things to say about DR. Marburger. He does not see his students as people, and is the least understanding professor that I have ever had. He does not give extensions for any of his exams, regardless of reason. I am warning each and everyone of you thinking about taking his class, DO NOT sign up for a class with him.

I waited to post this review because I took responsibility for the grade I received. However, after retaking the course with a different professor at ASU, I can confidently say that Professor Marburger should be avoided at all costs. The weighting he uses for his class makes it so you MUST pass his extremely difficult exams. Please take my warnings

this professor is awful does not imput grades correctly on canvas or communicated with his students whatsoever. does not genuinely want the students to succeed

His lectures are hard to follow, and his examples stink. Nothing is his fault it's ours. Grade split makes no sense, 20% on homework assignments that take around an hour, 20% on one-question quizzes in class, and 60% exams. Grades are wrong in Canvas and he doesn't care. Avoid at all costs.

He doesnt teach at all. Slides are full of memes and pictures, none of the lectures have anything to do with the homework assignments or the tests. No study materials for tests, you have to use Cengage to create practice exams. Gonna fail his class this semester because he actually is terrible. Just yells at the class asking for participation.

One of my friends dropped out of college after taking his class. I think that tells you all you need to know. The homework assignments are very difficult and you have a limited number of attempts. He yells at the class during lectures and tells horrible jokes. He also wears flip flops to class... put them toes AWAY.

If he has 0 haters im dead. Literally the worst professor. Doesn't care about anything. Honestly most professors in the economics department are terrible and think they are something special. Didn't want to round my 69.8% to a C.

Absolutely terrible professor. Took a week to respond to student questions in the discussion board; nobody ever asked a question again. Ignored my email. Few graded assignments, 2 exams make up 56% of your course grade. Midterm exam average for my course was a 60%. No curves, no study guides & no exam feedback provided. Avoid at all costs.

His lectures are very boring and super scattered. Tests are very hard and worth a lot of grade. I just dropped it.

ECN professor focuses solely on math in class (3 days weekly). Exams are 80% definitions (self-study, ~100 words, ~20 tested). Math knowledge results at most ~20% on 30-question exams. ~40-45% drop in my class. I had A's in all other classes. I received no response to my emails seeking help/considering withdrawal, showing the professor's disregard.

Professor Marburger was an extremely frustrating professor to have for an introductory economics class. The homework took the average of your 3 attempts and were very difficult, his tests were impossible because the review he did in class or with his TA did not help on the actual exam. His teaching style is terrible. Do not take this class.

This professor was not helpful to online students, especially compared to my other class this past semester. He expects you to memorize formulas for test. The practice exams aren't helpful to study for the material in the actual test. He speaks down to students both on the message board and on announcements.

The best way I can describe Marburger is that he's a laid-back/chill person, but his teaching methods are not it. Expects you to understand the material right away from his lectures without explaining in detail; tests are challenging, does not give study guides.