Not only was she the worst professor I had at Madison, her class was a joke. We watched about 5 episodes of Law and Order. Watch out, because she penalizes students who disagree with her opinions of mental illness in her classes by giving them bad grade

She is not a good teacher. She gives an unbelievable load of reading, especially journal articles, and then expects you to pick out tiny, insignificant details that show up on the test. Her classes are wretched and she's bad at helping students.

Very easy class but this professor must be working hard to make this information boring. Her packet of readings is totally useless (the books are good though). Getting an A so this is not a retaliation. Poor in general.

Would not recommend Prof. Gooding. I was very interested coming into the courses (I took both her 411 and 512) but was very disappointed. She is very unclear and there is an unreasonable amount of reading that you are expected to know a lot from. She expects too much from her students. Pretty rude also. I would not take a course with her again.

do not take the class!!! effort does not matter, nor does interest or invested time/learning/studying/etc. absolutely egotistical and ridiculously impossible teacher

Egocentric and rude; typically goes on tangents about her pets and her "amazing" accolades. By far the single worst professor I have had at this university. The material for this class itself is interesting. It is unfortunate that the department put such a useless teacher to lead this class.

Lectures are disorganized and she goes off on barely related tangents that distract from material, and her lecture outlines that are supposed to help are sometimes just as disorganized. Also, extremely arrogant and rude. She is clearly very intelligent and knows what she's talking about, but does a poor job of relaying info to students.

Spends 95% of lecture discussing her personal life, which did not relate to the material at all. Will mention something very briefly and expect you to know it in depth for the exam. Very, very full of herself. Mentioned she went to Harvard roughly 5 million times. Very,very,very rude and insensitive. Honestly not sure how she has a job.

I loved the material we learned in this class, but Prof. Gooding was probably one of the most arrogant and off-topic lecturer I've ever had. She spent almost half of the class period talking about completely irrelevant things. Her lectures are very content heavy, and I am glad she made lecture outlines. Exams were somewhat difficult.

Hands down the WORST professor at UW! She goes off tangent literally all the time. Out of 75 minutes of lecture time, you can expect her to teach for just 20+ minutes. Talks about herself A LOT. LIKE SERIOUSLY A LOT. Assigns 7-10 readings at a time to make up for the fact that she doesn't teach anything in class. DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS!!

Exams are hard. Doesn't really teach but talks about herself a lot. 10/10 would not recommend.

Worst class I've taken at UW. Dr Gooding is conceited, incredibly condescending to students and fails to convey material in any sort of engaging way. She will literally read definitions verbatim off of a sheet paper to you, and rather than explain concepts, gives irrelevant and elementary anecdotes that will not help you learn. Stay away my friends

My first review got taken down for my use of profanity so I'll keep it simple this time. Just stay away my friends.

DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSORs CLASS!!!!!!!! DO IT ONLINE OR WHATEVER, DONT TAKE THE LECTURE! You will regret!!!! She never tell you important things, but all her non-relevant experiences. Very disrespectful and self defensive! Never know how to use technology and never prepared it before class. Very confusing examples and never logical. Just dont

I've had this professor for one month and I am going to rip my hair out because she is slow, boring, and conceited. I am sitting in class and we haven't done anything for a half hour because her computer died. She reads the lecture slides instead of teaching and tells irrelevant stories about herself. She shows no care for her students. AVIOD HER!!

This professor is awful. The topic is so interesting but its ruines by her teaching. She doesnt know how to use technology. Although she gives many examples, she spends 30 minutes talking about irrelevant tangents of each. She is also not willing to help outside of office hours as she said, my door closes right at 3:30.

AVOID! She just gave us 12 min to do course evaluations and asked us to write about how bad the technology in this room is. I've had three other classes in this room and not one other professor has had trouble with the projector. Cutoff for A is a 95%. She gives invalid information in lecture. She said cortisol increases inflammation? AVOID!

as you've probably read on other reviews, her lectures are useless and the textbook is difficult to read. honestly just don't waste your time by going to lecture. instead, watch some crash course videos, look at her lecture outlines, and use some quizlets and you should be okay.

I NEVER write reviews. this is my first time I actually write one bc she is just AWFUL! I'm so serious when I say all she does in class is talk about herself. If you subtracted all the random stories and tangents she ALWAYS goes off on, lecture would be over in maybe 20mins. Exams are also pretty difficult.

I should have taken these ratings seriously when I so ever CARELESSLY chose to take her course. Her lectures consist of horribly set up powerpoints and her basically reading off of a script too fast to take good notes on. The only thing that matters in her class for grades is how well you take tests and teach yourself the material.

She goes on many irrelevant tangents almost breaking HIPPA in most of her "examples" and says some pretty offensive things for being a professor that teaches about mental health disorders. Expect to teach yourself most of the material because her lecture slides are completely disorganized & not helpful & the only grades are her 3 midterms.

Probably the worst professor I have had at UW. She goes on so many random tangents that have nothing to do with the material. Grades are made up of 3 exams with a 95% being an A. Do not take this class with her unless you have to

I would not recommend taking this class. I am pursuing a career in mental health, and this class did absolutely nothing for me. I literally would have benefited more reading the DSM-5 cover to cover. So beyond frustrating going to a 75 minute class twice a week only to have to spend hours teaching it yourself.

I too chose to ignore the rating and I regretted this decision through the entire semester. I had to teach myself everything for this class because her lectures make no sense. You are graded on 3 exams and that is it. During an exam she will not answer any clarifying questions, even if a word you are confused about is not a class term. DO NOT TAKE!

Hands down worst professor I have ever had. Theres no point in going to class because all she does is read off the slides. Not knowledgeable about the topic and always gets off topic. Before this class I was thinking about pursuing a degree in Psych but she ruined that for me. Tests are hard and no easy hw points. DO NOT TAKE THIS ClASS!!!!!!!!!!!

She had no schedule, and just announce things which ever came her mind. This made me so confused.

Avoid Diane Gooding if you can. She is not at all knowledgeable about psychology and if she is, it does NOT show in her lectures. She creates incredibly vague exam questions and then lists multiple correct answers. If online, AVOID AT ALL COSTS. She uses Honorlock and her lectures are laughable--powerpoints with audio clips--no videos.

Dont. Youre welcome.

Avoid at all costs. Lectures are slideshows with pre-recorded audio on each slide, which feels super impersonal. Lectures take a crazy long time to get through, much more than the 75 min allotted to the class. Exams are written with the intention of being ultra-specific. Class sucks the motivation out of you, sad because it's an interesting topic

Avoid at all costs. She is incredibly unorganized and puts zero effort into this class and clearly doesn't care about her students. Her "lectures" are pre-recorded slideshows which are way longer than a normal lecture and incredibly boring. She has so many random assignments and inconsistent due dates.

do NOT take this class with this professor. I felt like I was set up to fail. Because there are only three categories of assignments in this class you automatically dig yourself into a hole if you do bad on one exam. Some questions are choose the most correct answer and are highly subjective, overall wording is not good. Choose another professor.

Avoid her like SARS-CoV-2. Literally. If the class is online, don't take it with her. Awful powerpoint lectures, weird due dates, and test questions are super subjective. Need help? Have fun at her office hours at 9 pm on SUNDAYS.

For god's sake listen to these reviews and don't take this class. Her way of teaching is so inconsistent and messy. Her deadlines are all over the place. Her exams are so wordy and don't test us on what we learned. She told us to read the textbook but then tells us that the textbook is wrong... she literally only cares about her own research.

Don't even bother trying to pass the exams, you won't. No matter how much you study and how prepared you think you are, the exams do not reflect any of the information taught to you. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. She does not teach, she throws information at you and expects you to become an expert. Absolutely horrible class. Would never recommend.

As shown by her research, one would expect Dr. Gooding to be a solid teacher. She is not. Inconsistent with deadlines. Slides are a complete mess. The exams are so wordy, almost like paragraph questions. They also do not reflect what the bulk of the lecture is. You can study for weeks and get a B or C. Gooding seems to only be here for research.

Do NOT take a class with this professor. I can understand wanting to take some class because it sounds interesting, but please trust me and take the course with literally any other teacher. She will kill your interest in a fascinating class like abnormal psychology with mind-numbingly boring lectures, poorly written tests, and inconsistent grading.

I can not stress enough how much you should avoid this professor at all costs. I love the information in this course and was really looking forward to learning more, but her teaching style turned me off completely to even wanting to continue the class. Lectures are bland, she talks about herself too much, then grades on information not taught.

Gooding really does not know how to communicate well with students. Like everyone else said, she really only cares about her research and is so incredibly repetitive in her lectures. Her exams are super difficult and really annoying to take. I'd recommend not taking this class with her.

ALA's that you have to do, don't include what clearly needs to be stated and then you get points marked off for not including what she wanted. Grading is not clear. Teaching style is not helpful in any way. Exams are hard because they are so specific and she does ask questions straight from textbook. Does not compromise with students needs.

I could say allot but, simply put do not take a class lead by this professor. She stumbles through lectures. Due dates and required readings are vague. The biggest hurdle to success in this course is the professor. Discussions are graded based on a strict rubric instead of engagement. This list does not convey my disappointment perfectly.

Do not take this course if it is online, Professor Gooding did basically nothing to accommodate school going online due to the pandemic. She was unfair with what was covered on exam. Her grade cut off was something I have never seen before in my four years at UW Madison. She expects her students to accommodate her where she does not accommodate.

Dr. Gooding is a very smart woman, no doubt; however, she is not a very good professor. She holds us to extremely high standards and was not flexible at all despite the current global pandemic. Her tests were extremely hard with questions that were extremely specific with details that were not expected for us to know in this survey class.

Gooding seems like a very nice person and is very clearly passionate about her field but her teaching is not good at all. Grading criteria were very unclear and most of what she had in her lectures contradicted what was in the textbook. She was hard to contact and she never gave straight or clear answers.

AVOID!!! If you have the opportunity to take literally any professor, I implore you to take them instead. Professor Gooding is dull, unengaging, and demanding. Her exams were unfairly difficult and expected way too much. Her lectures were painful to watch. Reading the textbook was more exciting than listening to her talk. If you have her, good luck

it is the second week of class and i want to drop it already. she does nothing but talk about herself. She somehow manages to take interesting information, make it boring and the also somehow relate it back to herself. Please do yourself a favor and listen to these reviews they are not lying

She is as terrible as everyone on here has said. There is no way to stress enough what lengths you should go to to avoid her at all costs. she is insufferable. She lectures in an incredibly slow place with such a monotone voice. there isnt enough Adderall to allow me and my add to every try to pay attention to anything that comes from her mouth.

Avoid taking this class with Gooding. She talks a lot about her personal stories in lectures and leaves no time for actual content, causing the lectures to feel extremely rushed. Your grade is based solely on 3 exams and they are very challenging. You could study for hours/ days and still not even pass.

She does not know how to teach. I don't know how she has been teaching for this long. You're sitting in class and the whole time you're thinking, what am I supposed to be taking away from this? Nothing. I learned nothing in this class and somehow I'm still not going to get an A. That's because her exams are equally as vague as her lectures.

This class was so frustrating. Professor Gooding exclusively reads directly off the slides and when she doesn't she is telling long winded anecdotes that only lead to you getting distracted and lost in the lecture content. You are only graded on three exams yet the grading baseline for an A is a 95%, making it nearly impossible to get an A.

Professor Gooding seems like a great person outside of academics but was one of the worst professors I have ever had. She often read directly from her slides and would repeat herself multiple times in a row. Her pacing was slow and she did not seem to rehearse her lectures. Additionally, you could hear her flip through note cards in her recordings.

A nice person outside of class, but definitely a poor professor. She spent most of the time talking about her personal stories that do not help us understand the concepts better. The exams are challenging because she tests us on detailed information. She just simply read off every single word on her slides.

Though she is wise and knowledgeable about psychology, she provides little to no effort/care to efficiently teach her students. She spends more time speaking about herself than actively teaching the material needed to get a good grade. If you want a teacher who values and respects their students and their feedback, do not choose Gooding.

Listen to the negative reviews. A is a 95% and only 13% get this. There is a lot of information and she expects you to know it all. The first day of class she stated "I can do what I want, I'm tenured". She rambles and tells irrelevant stories that do not help you understand concepts. Exams are difficult and there are no challenges to questions.

I was disappointed by Gooding's class. The material was interesting and she's clearly knowledgable, but lectures are more about telling stories about herself than teaching. Exams were *very* difficult; I spent hours reviewing for each one and barely kept a B total. I would not recommend her to anyone who wants to enjoy their experience in abnorm.

There's 3 exams with no other assignments besides a 5 point quiz to cushion your grade and the exams are pretty difficult, so she makes it almost impossible to get an A. She spends more time telling stories about herself than she does actually teaching. My advice: start studying for exams at least a week in advance and rewrite lecture notes.

Not a good lecturer and a very hard grader. She also is mean and arrogant towards students, often making fun of them in front the class.

Took this class with Dr. Gooding a couple of years back -- I did not have a good experience. The extra credit assignment was some sort of review of Dr. Gooding's own work, and I recall putting a respectable effort into it. Despite satisfying the assignment's prompt, I was graded harshly (C), with zero feedback. There was no rubric.

Gooding presents the lecture material fast and you have to rewatch the entire recorded lecture to get the notes. Lectures are rushed at the end because she spends most of the lecture telling her own stories that are often not beneficial. Exams are harshly graded and there's no room for compromise plus they're not given back to review.

I didn't enjoy my time in Gooding's lecture. The content was nothing spectacular that I wasn't already taught in other beginner psych classes and didn't really match the content we were expected to know for exams. She often rambled with personal stories during class instead of actually teaching. She was also often very rude to students

I read all the other ratings and thought, how bad can it be? I was wrong. Listen to the ratings and don't take this class if she is teaching it.

Very poor professor. Not accommodating at all and would not own up to her own mistakes. Often blamed her TA for things that were done incorrectly.

Professor Gooding says she loves teaching, and she was interested in the course material, but I thought she could improve by staying more on the topic during her lectures

Very very difficult exams, HOSTILE AND CONDESCENDING. Very rude and condescending as well as narcissistic. Exams are very hard and no extra credit.

Unfortunately I did not have a good experience in this course with Dr.Gooding. She is an extremely tough grader and does not give any feedback after exams. She is also very inaccessible with her office hours being only 1 hour a week on Sunday night.

Pros: She is knowledgeable about the field and has a lot of experience. Cons: She is not a good lecturer and goes on tangents often. She also is not an understanding person when you need accommodations or have other life situations come up. Things on quizzes often were not covered in lecture. Was not an enjoyable experience with her at all.