2.1
Quality4.0
Difficulty18%
Would Retake104
Reviews18%
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What Students Say
“Never taking her course ever again, had to repeat stats”
1230 - 2.0 rating“She is not a good teacher”
BUQU1230 - 2.0 ratingClass Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
41%
Textbook Required
33%
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5.0
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Reviews (103)
worst teacher i have ever had, makes alot of mistakes in class. never gives us heads ups everything is very last minute and a very hard marker, dont take her class cause u will fail.
This instructor is very good. I love her way of teaching. She is dedicated and interested in her students and makes learning fun and easy. She is very helpful, kind and patient, unlike some other instructors that expect students to know everything like they do. I would recommend her again and again. She is awesome! Love her.
One of the best instructors. Course is hard but with her help it gets better. She is very kind and helpful. Assignments (3) and midterms (3) all very fair. Stays after class to help out if you have questions and really listens to you. Take her, she is very good. Highly recommend.
Really nice instructor, so glad I took her class. Take her, you won't regret. Very helpful and knows her stuff well to explain it till you understand.
She over complicates things that are very simple and teaches like she is half asleep, making you want to fall asleep aswell. you are better off buying a textbook and teaching yourself than taking a course with her,unless you need the credits(which I did not). She is very nice though.
Positive - Nicest teacher, very approachable cares a lot about her students,lots of examples in class, do problem sheet over text book questions. Negative - Not consistent, notes have errors, hard to follow, over complicates most of the course, assignments online does not apply to material taught in class, very pointless. I would not take her again
The powerpoints she uses for her lectures consists of numerous errors. There were many times where students had to correct her about it and she would stop the class to make changes to her useless slides. Her power points and notes are unhelpful. Her assignments are extremely hard. Final exam is worth 50%.
Shes is nice teacher, but she over complicates things that are SO simple! Her Power Point slides were useless, they had too many errors. Assignments were tough.. overall the class is boring, and she makes it even more boring and hard to understand. First day, the class was full!!! but at the end there were only 5-10 people who actually showed up
Mainly a self-study and online course. She spent the first two classes whining about how she didn't know how to teach the class because she wasn't used to it, thus less students came to her lectures. A student "found" an easier way to do a problem and she was skeptic. Other profs have been using that method in their classes for years.
I didn't go to any of the four classes prior to the second midterm and studied by myself for a couple hours and got an A, you really don't need to go to the class because you can teach yourself
She's really hard teacher...and doesnt know about the topic herself...her midterms were alrite but the final worth 50% was really a tough one...i would not recommend taking this teacher, unless you want to do this course twice.
she is an extremly easy teacher, test and quizes are super easy. She has really good notes that are online so you dont even need to attend her class. she is good to take for buqu 1130 however wouldnt take her stats
Going to class is just a waste of time. Her teaching method is useless and she rushes you to finish things. You can't even complete your midterm probably. She starts a new chapter right after your done writing your midterm. Don't take her stats class.
Very good teacher!! She really likes to help the students and she always replies to your emails!And her powerpoints are always straight to the point.
Her exams are similar to the assignments, however there is no time to think if you don't know how to do the problem right away. the final is 100 marks in 3 hours worth 50%. not enough time to complete every question! She is very willing to help you out though if you ask.
HORRIBLE,You ask for help and she says to email her or see her doing office hours. Whats the point of having being a teacher if your not going to teach!Avoid at all costs
Don't really recommend this teacher.. there are sometimes when she doesn't know how to answer a question. She even gets confused by her own explanations. strongly not recommended.
I don't want to be mean but she was an terrible teacher. The worst I've had. She was absolutely unhelpful when you had problems. Classes are 3 hour lectures that are extremely dry which makes learning hard. Very confusing. Learned more from the guy next to me in one class that from her all term. I would not take a class from her again, very bad!
horrible teaching methods- do not recommend this teacher. topics are poorly explains, and expects students to go through the entire chapter's exercises before going in for the lecture. Materials provided for the course are over complicated, and lacks usability. Sample questions and solutions are full of errors.
Don't take her. Classes are a waste of time as she merely reads off the slides, assignments are tough and exams are lengthy. Plus she's a hard marker. Only 17 people showed up for the final. I recommend Jacky Li. Got a C with her and got an A+ with Jacky. Still have to work hard though. Not so hard if you put your time in. Don't buy the book.
she is best teacher i have ever attend the class attend the classes and try to do the questions sheet she gives 90 percent mid terms and final exams are from them only . and the only digits are changed nothing else
Really nice teacher try to help as best as she can. Instead reply to the emails
Good professor know what is important for the students in the real life. Easy to understand interesting class
She spends way too much time talking about business skills, not enough on the actual math material. Lots of reflective work. Always rushed through explaining concepts. Teaches as if everyone is naturally good at math. I'm NOT so wish my learning style was considered. Lot of calculator use, which saved me from failing. Good notes, exams not too bad.
Very nice prof knows how to prepare students for the real world situation must take her
assignment is very hard and she give low mark
waste of time taking it, it doesn't learn much and she give a low grade
don't take her class, if you want to get a good mark you have to read the whole book yourself, she doesn't teach it well. she is also a very hard marker for both assignment and exam
worst teacher ever, makes a lot of mistake, and keep on asking students to be more professional
She is good professor taught good fair marker. Assignments are easy and mid term and final is same as assignments .so take her .
Never taking her course ever again, had to repeat stats. She puts too much material into class and doesn't grasp the fact of IMPORTANT things that Business students will need in the future. Expect a long 3 hours if you take this class. Assignments and quizzes aren't fair. Don't take this course unless you want to be crammed and disappointed.
It's an easy and interesting class. Comes in time and most likely to help you. She focuses on what is important or the most challenging parts of the lesson. Relates problems to real life. Pay attention and write notes during class, bc going back to her power point may confuse you. I only use the textbook for extra practice for midterms.
She is not a good teacher. I did not passed this class . Me and my two friends failed because she is very complicated and give lots of work to do. I will not recommend her if you are International student and in 1st semester. May this help someone.
Having previously taken this class last term with another prof, I noticed a drastic difference in Esther's class. More than twice the amount of work was required to achieve identical results. An excessive amount of "weekly reflection homework." A total of 4 exams. A confusing assortment of powerpoints. Nonetheless, she is very helpful if asked.
This class is by far one of the worst classes I've ever taken, The professor is nice but we are required to do very lengthy unnecessary homework that in many cases does not relate to math. She is obsessed with some "learning reflection" homework that is very time consuming. Exams are fair did fairly well in them. Her powerpoint are decent
Lectures are a bit on the dry side, but she obviously cares about your learning and success. The dryness is really more a result of the material in the course rather than her style of teaching. Overall, I'd say she's quite effective. Looks good in boots.
The best stats prof available in the campus
She's nice, tries her best to explain the concepts but gives VERY time consuming "learning reflections" which are due before class, which is not related to the course work rather to "personal understanding" of where you stand. If you spent the time and do the work, you should be fine.
less homeworks and easy task should be there
the lectures are crazy because she goes through it so fast so if you're a slow learner then do not take this class with this teacher. You basically have to self teach the chapter so you can take the quiz for the next class and its very difficult to do that. You really dont need the textbook cause the material that she teaches are on ppts.
DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS!!!!!!!!! This is one of the worst profs I have ever had. She goes through work very quickly and is scattered and hard to follow. She gives too many assignments so you have no time to try to actually learn the material. Take the class with Meena Bhagat much better teacher and easier to understand!
Horrible would not recommend. Do not take this class ever. BUT she does use the same midterm/final exam and u can find it online just dont get caught LOL
worst teacher ever! half the time she doesn't know what she is teaching. avoid at all costs. She is very particular about how she wants everything done, so even if your your answers are not detailed you will loose a lot of marks!
Don't take this professor if you are looking for good grades she gives a ton of homework and teaches too fast its very hard to keep up with her during the lectures. Business stats is a easy but she make it super difficult for you and also if you even miss 15 minutes of the class you won't understand a thing in whole class
Probably THE WORST teacher I've ever had in my entire life. Doesn't clarifies the concepts, just scrolls through slides and talks about being a good student more than statistics. LOTS of classwork and homework. She thinks its just her course that students are taking and have nothing else to do with their lives. Terrible experience.
She treats the class like business associates rather than as students, we are there to learn not make business deals. She can't teach, all she does is show slides and talk for 5 minutes and then your literally just sitting there confused.
worst !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
VEry good and cooperative prof
Needs alot of hardwork in class and outside class as well to pass this course. Just one advice often see her in her office hours to get good grades and study directyly from her as she goes too fast in the class
If you do the homework the class is very easy. Easy marks with in class assignments.
Very good professor
Stats is a tough course, but Esther does her best to make it easier for students. All work is in Excel (no handwriting like in other stats courses) and she provides templates to help you out. Assignments are groups (self-chosen) or individual, you get to choose. 3 midterms and a 40% final. They are based heavily off the questions in assignments.
This is a tough class, but if you take time to meet with Esther outside of the class, she is super helpful and caring. Doing the exercises/homework is vital!
This class is very time consuming and difficult. There is a lot of weekly work and the exams are horrendous. She's super strict and the exams are worth a lot. Find another prof if possible.
WORST
Her course is divided into many parts which gives us more opportunities to hike our grade. Wiki is the best part of her course. Go for her if you can give time to the course.
she does not explain math well at all. It is so hard to try to understand what she is saying and comprehending it. The tests are absolutely awful. The questions dont make sense at all and she tries to make you seem like the dumb one when she doesn't teach properly.
The homework she assigns is completely useless. Instead of math homework, she assigns a document asking questions about the math that she grades very hard. The work she assigns is worth so much, but there is no use for it.
This is a very very tough class and this prof does not make it any better.
The progress report seems unnecessary to fill in, we can give more time to the actual practice of questions if we do not have a tension of filling the progress report for the same.
Lot of Useless homework Does not teach about syllabus Only teaching about homework Speaking like a computer
She will make you do work (progress report) which don't even helps in learning. Even you score 10/10 in quiz she will you lower marks in report. Will not ever take her again
teacher gives progress reports which are of completely no use, rather of giving useful quizzes, in online classes she does not teach you well.
I am so done with her " progress report " and addressing my "knowledge gap" . It felt like Friking English class. I just don't understand the need for 15 % for the progress report. you will need to write so much made-up stuff and unnecessary. Nothing to do with her you can get better help from google and youtube. i never understood her.
instead of those progress reports she should assign homework to see if students actually understand rather than them making up stuff and writing it on the progress report. waste of time.
I emailed her and she didn't reply for like a week. No amount of preparation will help you with the tests. They don't even make any sense.
I don't understand why her classes are always full. She does not teach well at all and she makes us do break out rooms like 3 times a class and no one speaks so thats half an hour gone right there. This is more of an english class than math class. You will be better off with nay other prof.
I really don't understand the good reviews. This class is such a waste of time. You will not understand a damn thing in this course. If all the other profs classes are full, take this class another semester. Her class is a waste of time, money and it will ruin your mental health.
If you take this class. say goodbye to your social life. With the live class, videos, progress reports, homework, weekly quizzes and wikis, you will not have time for anything. You'll feel like ripping your hair out. No of it makes sense. You watch YouTube videos and its so different from how she teaches it. Take this class with another prof!!!!!!!
I do not know why i took this class with her. I was depressed the whole semester.
hardest class ever
Never take this prof. she gave a lot of work for writing (PROGRESS REPORTS, WIKIS) instead of practical questions.
more of an english class than math
There's no pros her class is all CONS!!!!!! She does not teach well at all. She does show you how to do the work just a powerpoint and she clicks next next next and you'll be left clueless.
Be ready to spend your time writing about your knowledge gaps instead of having time to do homework that isn't mandatory or for marks
Imagine passing and doing good on every exam but failing because of the stupid progress reports.
please please please avoid her. you will be stressed all semester and there are so many useless things she makes us do. she is not a good prof at all she doesn't explain things well. Look at what other profs have seats in their class and take them instead. She is the absolute worst.
Her class is useless and she doesn't support her students at all. she assigns progress reports instead of actually homework with equations and expects you to teach yourself everything at home and bullshts the entire in person class with group work
She makes her exams unreasonably hard like fr
esthers class is really content heavy and there is lots to do outside of class time, but if you ask for extra help she is very willing and understanding to help out. The lectures go really fast but video lectures are uploaded online to study outside of class time which is helpful
I know course registration is coming up, but DO NOT take her class. You will suffer throughout the semester and I am not overreacting. Do yourself a favour and choose another prof. Her classes are long and insufferable. You will not learn a thing and this class requires like 5 hours a week.
She made the course horrible, Her course material is so stupid and she makes everything just way to complicated. All I had was assignments and exams never saw her teaching something. 4 months 4 exams and 14 assignments. I don't know if she ever taught, it's like whole course was just a test of something I never got to learn.
Too bad professor, She does not care about anyone's efforts, any one mental care. She just making money at KPU by destroying students' careers. Never take this kind of professor who is selfish. Just playing with students' careers just by giving work and by giving too fewer grades.
Shes a really good prof. People on here that are leaving bad comments probably are too lazy to do the work and they're blaming the teacher She does weekly assignments that are super easy based on her recorded videos Now her way of teaching gets a bit confusing but she's really good with answering questions you gotta work hard to get a good grade
She is a very tough grader. You have to learn everything by yourself. She posts the slides on moodle and tells you to go over them by yourself. Her tests are so hard than the actual material on slides.
If you aren't insanely good in math, do not take this course. I am trying to save you all from making a mistake. i am in almost done my degree and she is still by far the worst prof. I once emailed her and waited days for a reply and she finally replied saying she hasn't made time to deal with my issue... Nothing she teaches is on the exams btw
Its been 2 years since ive taken her class and it still haunts me
AVOID THIS PROFESSOR! I am saving you money! Never accessible outside class. She will never teach in class, she will post slides online and expects you to know everything before class. The class average was always so low which explains a lot. The exams are really heavy, she is a though grader as well. She dose not show any motivation either.
Garbage professor who wasted my time. Doesn't even teach in class, You have to read 100-200 PowerPoint slides before class. She told us to spend 8 hrs a week at home studying at home. She gives out useless English assignments on how we overcome math problems, and she deducts so much marks on unimportant things. Prepare for homework every week
There are four exams in total, if you watch the videos and do her homework, it is easy to get a high grade
we had tons of assignments each week and 4 midterms. who does that really? and honestly she would not explain anything in class. If you take her be prepared to study everything on your own. Probably the worst prof till date. doesn't really care about the students. my class average before the final was 35%. Almost half the class withdrew.
I thought all comment here are from lazy people, but after taking her class right now without a doubt a horrible professor. expects you to know everything before class and even being in class none of the powerpoint stuff she shows us even correlates with the type of questions we get. she gives no explanation regarding to solving difficult problems.
DO NOT TAKE!!!!!!!!!!!
I have all A's & B's and this was the first and only class I have ever dropped. Does not teach & does not care about students. Nothing makes sense. Take another prof who knows how to teach. This class was awful. I am not a lazy student, I try my best and that was not enough for this class. If you care about your mental health, dont take this class
If only looked at the reviews sooner. This is the only professor in the world where you could feel like you have given it everything but get a bad mark. Save your time, money, and sanity, and choose another prof. Nothing is clearly explained and there's nothing to refer to when you are trying to learn something new so you have to teach yourself.
Dr. Tiessen is actually a great professor. True, 3 hours for this class is really not enough, here's when the videos come in handy. You just really have to set aside time to review and practice calculations. Dr. Tiessen is also willing to clarify and answer queries even on a weekend to assist her students.
She's a good prof, everyone here saying she's not, is just lazy. The recommended amount of hours for this course are 6-9hours/week, and I averaged 3-4, and I still did well in the course. The exams are literally the same as the assignments, and she gave extra credit on assignments for doing them early. If you fail her class, you're the problem
Lots of students already dropped, overall bad at teaching.
I am almost done my degree and she is by far the worst prof I have ever had. Her class was so bad I used to cry myself to sleep.
Not accessible outside class. Wastes so much class time. You have english assignments rather than math assignments. Exams are nothing like the homework. I have a 3.9 gpa and have never done so poorly in a class that I had to drop it.
By far the worst prof I have had at KPU. I thought these reviews were all exaggerations, but they're not. Find a prof with high rating and take their class instead of Esther's!!!!!
Tough class, but using unstuckstudy alongside the free textbook really helped me stay on top of the concepts. The professor is hit-or-miss, but attendance is a must. I barely scraped by with a B, but I'm glad I stuck it out.
I wish I had seen her rating before taking the class. She does not teach at all. You have to do the stuff yourself through recorded videos. Too much homework, not much of the course syllabus is covered during class. Class time is literally wasted by useless group activities which are EVERY week, so if you're an introvert like me, you are damned.
Class Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
41%
Textbook Required
33%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
B-
Grade Distribution
Common Tags
Rating Trend
Declining
-0.83 avg changeRatings by Course
BUQUBUQU
5.0
(1)BUQU10
5.0
(1)BUQU1105
5.0
(1)BUQUS12
4.0
(1)1230
3.5
(2)Difficulty by Course
BUQE1230
5.0
BUQU1130
4.1
BUQU1230
4.1
1230
4.0
BUQUS12
4.0