Guodong Gao

This professor has taught: BMGT301, BMGT301F, BMGT408E, BMGT808K, BMGT808P, BUDT737, BUDT758B, BUDT758C, BUSI622

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Guodong Gao Anonymous 12/28/2014	By far the worst teacher I have had at the University of Maryland. He has a thick accent so you never know what he is saying. He jumps around and has no structure to his lectures, constantly going from one topic to another. His slides provide no help in following along with him. His tests are totally ambiguous and he grades arbitrarily. I would recommend taking any other possible teacher. I know I am part of the majority of my class when I say he should not be a teacher in the smith school
Guodong Gao BMGT301 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/19/2014	I really like Gordon, don't get me wrong he is a very nice guy and he means well for his class. The problem lies in the fact that he simply does not understand the concept of teaching. He is knowledgeable about the subjects but has an extremely hard time explaining them to his students. More so, he jumps around from topic to topic without really any progression explaining why the two go together. As someone said earlier, his study guides are extremely vague giving us no idea what he actually expects us to know for the exam and then on the exam itself the grades are more vague with questions that can have three separate meanings. Walking into the final, I spent 3 full days looking at the study guide and hoping that the information that I had found for it was what he had wanted only to find out that 3 of the questions were different ideas on the study guide and the exam and quickly dropping from what could have been 100 to an automatic C... It's not entirely his fault though, he clearly is not a faculty member that wants to be teaching, he is there to do his research and has to be plugged in for some unfortunate kids. To anyone stuck in a predicament of 50 credits and they offer this class to bridge the gap, heads up DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS with Gordon... PS if you do not understand broken Chinese/English, this class is not the class for you.
Guodong Gao BMGT301 Expecting an A sukhenkoy1990 01/06/2013	Professor Gao is a great professor for BMGT301. Despite taking his class on Mondays for 2 and a half hours at night, he was able to make the class entertaining and actually pretty interesting for an accounting and finance major. He is very lively during his lectures and covers some topics that are relevant to any business student entering the work force in the near future. The grades consist of some problem sets, case write-ups, participation, two projects, and two exams. Problem sets and case write-ups are very straightforward, and exams are very fair. In fact, Professor Gao gives a study sheet the lecture before the exam so that you know exactly what to study (and he tests you on those topics). He really likes it when students participate, so try to do so during the lectures. Additionally, he gives students a lot of opportunity for extra credit throughout the semester, so getting an A is very realistic if you do your work as assigned.
Guodong Gao BMGT301 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/22/2010	Gao is a great teacher. He is very insightful and has a lot of knowledge to bring to the table. He really knows the material. He cares about his students as well. His accent only gave me a slight problem, but you'll probably have to deal with this many times in your college career.
Guodong Gao BMGT301 Anonymous 12/25/2009	Gao is an awful professor, and I would warn anyone against taking a course with him. He has no outlined structure to his lectures at all, and jumps from one topic to another without creating any comprehensible flow. His exams are very very vague, and his grading is extremely arbitrary. He does not value hard work and his grades do not reflect a students effort and success. He took a supposedly easy course and turned it into the most difficult one because there was no way to know if you have prepared enough. I would not even want my worst enemy taking his course, and I strongly recommend that, if you can, you find a different professor for this course.
Guodong Gao BMGT301 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/05/2009	Gao really is a great teacher. He legitimately cares about the welfare of his students and has experience in the field. He strives for class participation which can be difficult because not many students care, but he REALLY appreciates it if you participate. He brought us candy during our examinations, pretty much because he felt guilty for making us do work. Overall, Gao is a great teacher and I would highly recommend him to other students. If he taught another class I'd take it almost without exception.
Guodong Gao BMGT301 Anonymous 11/18/2009	He's not a bad professor, but certainly not phenominal by any means. This class isn't that difficult and there isn't alot of overly difficult work involved. However, he has an overpowering chinese accent that makes listening to his lectures excruciatingly painfull and difficult to understand. I suggest choosing a different teacher because his poor english just annoyed me. Also, he often goes at a fast pace during his lectures which can be vague at times. He prints out slides for you. And his tests have easy questions as well as questions that are worded poorly because his english is terrible as I said, and may often trick you or will be so random and therfore difficult.
Guodong Gao BMGT301 bkubic 02/26/2008	Professor Gao is phenominal. Even though his tests are easy, his dynamic teaching style, interesting lectures, and bad jokes make every class worthwhile to go to.