Historical Grade Summary

I have a reputation for being a demanding teacher. In fact, one student described me by saying, "You'll learn, but you'll fail." (I saw this on www.TeacherReviews.com. The student [I presume it was a student, but there's no way to be sure] who posted this review chose not to say what grade s/he received.) That's the problem with word of mouth recommendations and urban legends: you have no idea how accurate they are.

Well, here's the facts. The summary below includes all 203 sections I have taught from 19764 through 20033, with the exception of a couple of old independent studies and incompletes whose records I cannot find. Other than that, these statistics are complete.

for an overall total GPA of 2.23. I hope someone finds this information useful.

By the way, a disgruntled student posted a review of me on 2/1/02. He did badly in my Operating Systems class and therefore believes that the failure rate for my OS sections "is probably upwards [sic] around 35-45%."

He is accusing me of using statistics to lie. Well, I don't particularly like being called a liar, especially in a professional context, so here's the relevant data: as of 20021, the average failure rate of all the sections of Operating Systems I've ever taught is 9.7%, more than 2% lower than the overall average for all my courses.

This student makes numerous other unsubstantiated claims that would be fun to refute, for example:

• I use the word "demanding" on this web page to describe myself, and many of the positive reviews of myself include the word "demanding", therefore I must have written the reviews [I hope you never serve on a jury, buddy];
• I'm tough as hell in OS but "anyone with a few operating neurons may be able to pull off an A in his OTHER courses even without going to class" [an unlikely notion that is contradicted by negative reviews of me for other courses posted on the same web site, or maybe he thinks I also wrote those just to confuse him?]