Shelby Kimmel

Prof. Kimmel was great at teaching the concepts in this class. While the learning targets grading style is unique I really enjoyed it and felt it helped motivate me to truly learn the content. There wasn’t much coding, but the other topics seemed important and applicable.

Prof Kimmel uses a learning target style of grading. Instead of exams there are learning targets where you can pick and choose which targets to complete. Your grade is based off how much primary / secondary targets you have by the end ilofbtbe year. Great for retrying skills and earning full credit for them even after messing up on a previous assessment, but if missing 1 or 2 problems could change your grade a lot

Prof Kimmel uses a learning target style of grading. Instead of exams there are learning targets where you can pick and choose which targets to complete. Your grade is based off how much primary / secondary targets you have by the end ilofbtbe year. Great for retrying skills and earning full credit for them even after messing up on a …Read more

This class is going to be somewhat mundane by its nature, but Prof Kimmel does a good job of explaining the concepts clearly. Lectures are her writing on an iPad and walking through concepts on a note-taking app, which works quite well for the material covered in this course. They are also recorded and notes are posted as PDFs, which helps with studying or if you miss classes. There is a group work component every class, annoying if you don't sleep well the night before. The problem sets can be tedious to work through, but you will understand the material by working through them weekly. Grading is interesting, you have to hit a threshold of learning targets, and each question is attached to a specific target. This makes it easy to track progress, but the questions on exams are often problems formulated in a way you've never seen, which is quite annoying. Also, the concepts in this class are surprisingly very useful for higher-level economics courses, especially learning how set notation works.

This class is going to be somewhat mundane by its nature, but Prof Kimmel does a good job of explaining the concepts clearly. Lectures are her writing on an iPad and walking through concepts on a note-taking app, which works quite well for the material covered in this course. They are also recorded and notes are posted as PDFs, which …Read more