Talks like Sean Connery...words his test questions too hard

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He really does sound like Sean Connery

each test is over many chapters and when he says he covers all he means it!

Never really went....but it was kind of boring

He loves to hear himself talk. Going to his class was torture and not necessary

Large group projects are dumb

i totally agree with the tommy lee jones and sean connery bit. I think its hilarious that someone else thought the same thing.

Awful teacher. He can't keep track of anything. For five classes straight, we watched group practice presentations, then wondered why people did so bad on the test. I think he just got tired of teaching.

I don't think he enjoys teaching very much. It seems he does as little work as he possibly can. I don't learn anything in class. If you want to do good on the exams read the chapters, study quizzes, and go to the SI session before the exam.

The only thing you learn through Bailey is that even he doesn't know what is going on.

The only point in going to lecture is to get counted for attendance. You don't learn anything from him, but there's no homework and easy tests

He is a nice guy but his class is pointless. He is to busy having you play with your remotes to teach you anything. If you want to do well in his class do the on-line quizzes and read the chapters. Then you never have to go to class.

He gives you no notes. His lectures are pointless, he wants people to read chapters and wants to discuss them in class as a large group, but this technique sucks. Labs are POINTLESS.

Well of course he does not explain good stuff but what can you do.

I have some mixed feeling on this class, there were times when I learned something and times when I wondered what he was thinking. There was a lot of mix ups this semester with the project and trying to balance the class work that was kind of assigned.

Good ole Bob needs to figure out how he wants to run his class. If you want to teach yourself everything and like working on group projects with about 60 kids in it, then go ahead and take this class. I would suggest finding a different teacher.

this class is boring as all get out. i had no clue what he was talking about all semester long, and got a A in the class. the material sucks, the lab sucks, ecology sucks. the only reason why he's good? your allowed a cheat sheet for the final!

What the hell is he doing teaching this class? It's ridiculous. All the exams are take home, the final is open book-open note, the labs are pointless and you'll still get an A if you never go to class. Actually, going to class could make you stupider!

This class is a joke. It is by far the easiest class I have ever taken. All exams are take home, and the final is open book/note. Dont bother going to class, he doesnt teach you anything. Try to teach yourself through the book. He doesnt do examples.

Bailey's class is a joke! He never teaches things that are relevant to anything. Also, this project that we have to do is ridiculous. The TA's don't even know what the hell is going on so how are we supposed to. By far my least favorite class.

He rambles and is scatter-brained; you wouldn't have to go to the lectures except he likes to announce homework assignments and exam dates then. He doesn't follow a syllabus. His exams are hard; he doesn't give much info on what to study. He's not terrible, but he's not great either.

Everything he talks about in class is totally irrelevant towards the exams. He also posts "self Assessments" and tells you to use them as study guides, but doesn't put anything from them on the exam... Don't take this class if you don't have to!

This guy is a total flake. It's an easy class, just don't take it in the morning. Go to class. He doesn't have the whole packet that you can study from anymore.

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The man has a heart of gold. He cares about the subject and has insight he wants to share. The problem is that no one actually wants to learn BIO, we all just want to complete the requriement. Thus, all assignments are "hard" and "boring". If you don't like BIO, this guy is as good as any.

This guy will stare randomly at people during class and is very demanding. However, he has that strange old hot guy thing going for him.

It was my least favorite class of the whole semester. Very unorganized, nearly pointless PowerPoint notes, and I still feel like I didn't learn anything. He wasn't clear about the stupid project that we had to do in our labgroups and when to turn in our Ecological Footprint journals. I'm just SO thankful to be finished with this class!

He always harassed us and just had a negitive perception of the students he was teaching--if you call teaching what he was doing. He is the only professor I have really hated at CMU. Plus, he never got into any of the lab material. It was like taking two different confusing classes. The project was long, but almost everyone got A's.

He did a lot of discussion during lecture time, and although some of it helped on the tests, a lot of the test materials were taken from the book that was never really covered. I had to do a lot of self-teaching in this class. He also would assign a lot of homework by way of email the day before class - both things got annoying very fast.

Not very nice or understanding when it comes to being sick and not coming to class. His lectures were a complete waste of my time.

He is simply trying to prove to us that we are ruining the world. He spends a lot of lecture time talking about personal stories and not really teaching. Tests are easy, lectures are boring, you won't learn anything you didn't know before. Do the homework he assigns, it's the same thing every time anyway...concept maps.

Class was a waste of time. Lab was do-able but you have to pretty much teach yourself. he was late for class, he didn't show up once or twice with no notification, then he didn't give us the SOS form to rate him. this is the case of tenure-itis. Pretty much its time to retire.

Bailey is retiring soon and has completely checked out. He gives very unclear directions, never holds the class until the end and doesn't seem to care whether we are there and participating or not. An easy A, but very frustrating.

Does not teach at all, merely "facilitates discussion" which is ineffective since he doesn't care whether or not we participate. Doesn't grade anything at all, but be sure to keep up with the assignments since you turn in everything at once. Seems to have an attitude of not wanting to teach at all, do not take him if you can help it!

One of the worst professors I had, not because he is a bad guy, but because lecture was basically useless and he skipped 5 lectures (at 8 AM) and did not tell us. I don't know how he expects us to take the class seriously when he doesn't. Lab is doable. If you don't answer questions he asks during lecture you get yelled at.

This prof is an useless. he says class is mandatory, but the way he takes attendece is "randomly" picks 10 names and puts it on the overhead and you have to sign it in the first ten mins of class. my name has never came up. Even our lab teacher appoligized because we werent learning the materials unlike the her other classes with a competent prof.

This class was a complete waste of time! Instead of teaching what would be on the exams, he would tell stories for the majority of class. The exams, that could have been easy, were hard due to his lack of teaching. Even after studying, I would barely pass. It was frustrating to go to class every week with no improvement. Don't take this class!

Almost always a lecture leading into some personal, irrelevant story. His excuse for bad test scores is: "Should have read the book!" If you have the teacher, memorize the book, because apparently it's never his fault. Almost everyone in my class was dissatisfied with their grade. Good luck!

Terrible teacher! If you need to take this class.. DO NOT take him as a teacher. Waste of time to go to lecture because you never learned anything EVER. Worst class/teacher all year.

Please seriously I'm in advocate for going to class everyday, but only go to the class on review days but go to every SI section! They will teach you everything you will need to know for the tests. Somehow I pulled an A- in the class and didn't do very well on the first 3 tests..

in this class right now, and I always have something to do. It takes up all my time because he assigns 3 chapters to read at once. He is confusing and does not explain what he wants clearly. Exams are hard even if you spent days studying. His grading system is all out of wack and I still do not know my grade with almost 2 weeks left. DO NOT TAKE!!!

He does not communicate well with the class on the grading and what not. His black board was a total mess. A ton of**** on there that was pointless and didn't mean anything. It was a very easy class, but he was not a very good professor. Not the worst though

Do not take his class. He is not helpful at all and rambles on and on about the same topic ALL SEMESTER. His class is relatively easy, given the exams are online and open book. He gives you a book report and does not tell you anything helpful pertaining to it. This subject was interesting to me, but now I can't stand it.

Bailey is super boring. I didn't learn anything in his class that I didn't know before I took it. He is horrible at informing you of due dates and assignments and expects you to know. He isn't good at black board either. Class was boring. You dont need to attend to pass if it wasnt for attendance points.

Dr. Bailey is a nice guy, but his teaching style is dry and unfocused. He doesn't teach anything useful in class but requires you to be there by using an iclicker (in class response system). His final is impossible and he has random moments in class where he gets mad that people aren't doing their work cause they don't understand it... I wonder why

The lecture of this class was completely pointless, and I never paid attention because it was all over the place. Dr. Bailey was a really cool dude, but I was unable to learn from his teaching style. The only work I put into this class was the online quizes he made you take for points and I somehow ended up with an A in the class!

I am not sure by the below comments if attendance used to be mandatory but it is not now. The lectures are terrible, by doing the online quizzes, skimming the book and making a good cheat sheet you will do fine in the class. Lab is super easy and most of the time out early. The book could definitely be shared by 2 people in the class.

If you are looking for an easy freshman entry level class this is not the one for you, please try a different professor, hard to understand and lectures were brutal people only showed up for exams and they were 10x harder reguardless if you studied or not class average was D-

Not that hard of a class, but not fun at all

The only thing you did in this class was go and listen to long boring lectures. He didn't teach you out of the book in these lectures, he mostly told stories about his life. He didn't make you do anything (other than online homework) until Thanksgiving break and then he loaded on the work. He was unwilling to help outside of class.

This class is EXTREMELY easy! He lets you collab with as many people as you want on all of the exams, even the final and he is a super nice guy. If you attend lab and do all of the online quizzes this class is an easy A. I would definitely take a class of his again.

He did not teach or give organized lectures throughout the semester. He uses Mastering quizzes to teach the material, but does not EVER give an organized lecture. I never once took notes because any notes you take are not relevant to your success. You have two group projects in all and most class periods are used to work on them.

Nice man but never actually teaches you anything. Class felt like a waste of time with group work and online quizzes. The entire semester he did not post any grades until the very end so you never knew where you stood until the final grade was posted.

Very easy class, but Bailey usually gets off topic during lecture. Attendance isn't required nor necessary in order to do well. All exams are collaborative & you can use a cheat sheet. I showed up to maybe 5 lectures all semester and did just fine.

Bailey gets off topic a lot. You don't need to attend class to pass, you can skip and still get an A or a B. He doesn't really teach biology related stuff. He is very nice though.

This class was a joke. By the end of the semester, we had grades for two things; a midterm and a final. There were two group projects involved in this course, but I never saw a grade for either one. Never took notes, not even one. I showed up to maybe a quarter of the classes and got an A.

Bailey is honestly a pretty funny guy, but he wasn't very good at teaching. I went to the lecture for the first two weeks of class and then didn't step foot into the room until the final. As long as you go to lab and study for exams, lecture is not mandatory.