Yeah yeah...She may make you feel like you're in an elementary school math class, but I personally liked it. Come on now... Wouldn't you rather have a professor who teaches stats to you simply or explains it in a more complicated manner?? Her practice midterm was similar to the actual midterm and she let us have a whole sheet of paper (front and back) as our cheat sheet. I would say her midterm was pretty fair, but I got a grade in the C range (with the curve!). This was because I missed a whole page of points on her midterm. I think I would have scored higher if I had paid more attention to my lecture notes and the terms she uses. Luckily, if you score higher on the final than on the midterm she'll account your final for 75% of your grade. I guess I scored much higher on the final than I did on the midterm because I ended up with an A in the class after stressing out so much over how I needed to raise my grade. Her final was alright I guess. It was open book and open notes like some other student said, but it was much different than her midterm because there were articles you had to read through. I would say about one or two of the problems on the final were confusing because I didn't know what type of answer she wanted. Just study the practice final to get some idea of the type of answers she wants from those articles. Oh and it helps if you put labeled post-it tabs in your notes and book before the final exam so you don't flip madly through your stuff trying to find the equations or examples you need. Overall I think she's an ok professor to take stats 10 with because she teaches well, but she's not easiest professor you can take it with.

sitting in her lecture makes me feel like i was in an elementary school math class, because the things she talked about made common sense and the examples that she gave was very easy, same goes for the hw. she gave us a midterm review and promised that the midterm would be something liek that, so the midterm was not surprising and was pretty easy. BUT the final was horrible. when i first saw the final, i thought i was taking a history or english final. you have to read a page of article just to do the problems and there's about 5 or 6 problems for that whole final. even though she said the final was open book and open notes, but it was no help when you are trying desparetely to finish reading the article and trying to understand what she was asking for. Besides the long exam, she's a pretty good professor for basic stats because she makes it easy for you to understand.

Professor Beddo is a great teacher. The only reason she has a harder rating is because she gives slightly more homework than the other professors. But I took her class, passed with an A-, and am well prepared for Psych 100A. She lets you drop the midterm if your final is better, and she is very concerned with learning. Take Professor Beddo!

Professor Beddo is a great teacher. The only reason she has a harder rating is because she gives slightly more homework than the other professors. But I took her class, passed with an A-, and am well prepared for Psych 100A. She lets you drop the midterm if your final is better, and she is very concerned with learning. Take Professor Beddo!

She's was okay, but kind of boring.

Okay, if you're going to take Stats 10 which is supposed to be one of the easier classes at UCLA, take an easier professor like Lew (spelling?) or someone else because Beddo can be VERY TRICKY on tests. Someone said a few entries back that "listening to her lectures made me feel like I was back in the third grade". This is true for the first half of the class where it is really easy material. The second half, however, killed everyone because it was so hard. The curve was good because of that so I can't complain too much I guess.
Beddo is good in that she won't give you much homework, it won't take up much of your time during the quarter (taking 4 classes at a time with this class would be fine), so the only time spent on it is studying for the midterms and final. Her test questions are HARD because you're never quite sure what she is asking. BUT alot of people do bad so she makes a good curve. ALSO, the "practice" tests DO NOT HELP (I did all of them and none of the test questions were similar). My advice - get a good TA and go to their office hours ALOT to get help on the homework and maybe that will help you on the tests. Overall, go to lectures because they will help more than the book, but even though she teaches like a high school teacher and makes alot of the material easy to understand, BEWARE OF HER TESTS. I ended up with an A in the class because of the curve I think, and you will have at least a B if you don't study at all. I would have liked to get the A without freaking out over the 2nd midterm (very very difficult) and the final though. If she's the only one teaching Stats 10, it is okay to take her. But if anyone easier like Lew is teaching, take them for SURE (I heard the tests were a snap!).

Prof. Beddo is one of the best professors I've had here. She really cares about her students, and wants to make sure that she is being fair. Nothing on the tests are unexpected, and there is a good curve. Go to lecture, and you'll do fine. I highly recommend taking this class from her.

One of the most painful and certainly stressed out experiences I have ever endured. First off, Beddo's lectures were very straightforward as was the readings and homework. Unfortunately, the tests do not miror the class as they were completely different and ridiculously hard. The TA's were even confused and did not know how to do some of the problems! When Beddo was confronted with this, she simply shrugged it off. Also this is the first class I have ever been in where a few students actually broke down and cried (yes, CRIED) in frustration and even walked out during the second midterm...that says it all.

I'm not much of a math person to start with, and only needed this class as a pre-req for my major. By about week 3 (the first midterm) I was counting down the days til the end of the quarter. Although Beddo is a very thorough lecturer and good professor overall, the tests were ridiculously hard. The practice midterms/finals she distributes are essentially no help since the actual tests are nothing like the practice ones; the wording is confusing and the only thing you are left with is the hope of a good curve (which usually happens). Take this class if you are willing to put in HOURS and HOURS of work and practice.

Honestly, listening to her lectures made me feel like I was back in the third grade, and the material was way easy. The textbook was the same way. In fact, if you are a math-oriented person this class shouldn't take more than 20 minutes of your time per week - you don't really need to attend lectures, and the graded/required homework is a snap. There is one pitfall to avoid - her tests are hard. The way questions are worded on her tests makes it very difficult to understand what she wants for an answer. She also is not afraid to put a series of questions that are so easy that they trip you up - that is, four answers in a row are zero and if you get the first one, no work is required for the next ones. The difficulty of the tests is not exponentially greater than the lectures. Take her class, but either don't go to lectures or don't do the reading. The "practice" tests are not very useful, as the questions don't really reflect the actual tests.