AI Rate Professor

Mathematics

Doug Burgess

MATH · MATH101 · MATH103 · MATH830 · MATH60 · MAT820 · MATH100 · ALG010 · 17 lifetime ratings

AI rating
10/100
RMP rating
1.1/5
Take again
0%
Difficulty
3.9

The decision

unless you can fully teach yourself the math course.

Best fit · Self Taught ProDoes not teachRude and condescendingSelf-study requiredScantron testsIntimidates questions
  • Nearly every review rates quality at 1 and
  • Students say he sits, rushes, or and sends people to the Math Lab
  • student work

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

HardWork

28/100

No grade data and widespread reports of and uncertain.

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Is the course easy?

Challenging

24/100

Content feels hard because instruction is missing and pace is too fast for questions.

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Is attendance flexible?

Optional

72/100

The , and many students treat class as unhelpful.

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Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

5/100

and comments urge students to pick anyone else.

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Course guide

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Grading

Harsh

22/100

and little review of actual work.

Format shift

All evidence from in-person reviews.

Workload

Heavy

35/100

Lots of homework and full self-teaching at home are recurring complaints.

Format shift

All evidence from in-person reviews.

Teaching experience

Awful

8/100

Students say he does not teach, is rude, humiliates wrong answers, and shows no interest.

Format shift

All evidence from in-person reviews.

Assessment method

FocusOnExams

88/100

Scantron tests dominate and little graded instructional work is described.

Format shift

All evidence from in-person reviews.

Luni fit check

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Course format

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Classroom format

In person

17 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

In-person math sections are described as non-teaching, intimidating environments where students self-study for scantron tests.

Main concern

Instructor hostility and lack of instruction force pure self-teaching.

What students said

“If you have a hard time understanding math please do not take this teacher because you will not learn anything!”
MATH830
“Patience is not his thing, and he doesn't explain the math clearly at all. I ended up teaching myself the class.”
MATH101
“This guy does not teach. You teach yourself as he only wastes your time in the classroom.”
ALG010

Remote format

Online

0 reviews

Low confidence

No stored summary is available for this format.

Main concern

No main concern is stored for this format.

Exam style

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Exams are repeatedly described as scantrons with no review of student work and a .

Scantron testsNo work reviewTough grader

Assessment risk

Strict

35/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

; reviews do not clearly prove Lockdown Browser or webcam rules.

Scantron testsNo work review
“ , so he never looked at our actual math work.”
MATH101
“Doug is extremely lazy, gives scantron tests, snd most of the time he needs to be corrected.”
MATH101

Online

Student evidence

See what students actually said.

Top student voice

“save ur grades and !!”

Voice snapshots generated from 17 in-person reviews, highlighting non-teaching behavior and hostile climate. Credibility rating: High.

🎯 Teaching Quality

8/100

“This guy does not teach. You teach yourself as he only wastes your time in the classroom.”

🚫 Recommendation

5/100

“ !!”

😠 Classroom Climate

10/100

“he humiliated me in class cause i did not know the right answer”

📝 Scantron Testing

35/100

“ , so he never looked at our actual math work.”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • He does not like to teach, he teaches for fun.
  • just sits up front, doesn't seem like he really has much intereste in teaching.
  • Went through to fast and you did not have time to ask questions.

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

  • I taught myself through his whole class.
  • Lots of
  • !

Theme 3

💔 About Character

  • He is snide and condescending at times.
  • Tries to intimidate students into not asking questions.
  • gets so mad when you don't know the answer.

Data context

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Analysis sample

17

Recent reviews read by the AI

17

Lifetime ratings

80/100

Evidence confidence

Seventeen consistently negative in-person reviews spanning many years make the poor teaching pattern highly credible despite older dates.

Inside 17 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 50
4 out of 50
3 out of 50
2 out of 51
1 out of 516

Course coverage

MATH1017 reviews
MATH8303 reviews
MATH1002 reviews
ALG0101 review
MAT8201 review
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MATH1 review
MATH1031 review
MATH601 review

Reported outcomes

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