Natalia Tchetcherina

This professor has taught: SPHL601, SPHL602, SPHL603, SPHL610, STAT100, STAT400, STAT401, STAT410, STAT430, STAT440, STAT470, SURV410, SURV440

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Natalia Tchetcherina STAT440 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/14/2025	If you’re considering taking STAT440, just be prepared - it’s a heavy workload for a 3-credit course. The slides are really well-made and cover everything you need, but the lectures don’t add much since the professor mostly reads from the slides without explaining why we’re learning certain concepts. There are tons of assignments, and in my opinion, many of them don’t actually help with understanding, especially the homeworks. Grading feedback isn’t clear either, so you often don’t know why you lost points. The professor is kind, but the class isn’t very interactive, and it can be hard to ask questions during lectures. I mostly came to class for project insights. Overall, there are a lot of assignments that you need to do for a good grade.
Natalia Tchetcherina STAT440 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/08/2025	This professor sucks. She barely speaks English, just reads off the slides all lecture, most of which is just formulas. She gives so much busy work (homework most weeks, classwork (to be completed by the night of the class) almost every class, and project reports on top of all that). It's the class that takes the most time out of my week despite being completely useless and uninteresting. The only benefit is that there's no exams, but those are replaced with a quiz for each chapter and a group project that lasts the entire semester. The quizzes are complete busy work where you get a cheat sheet to write all the formulas on and then go and regurgitate them on the quiz paper. It's a complete waste of time and paper. The project is fine, but she grades them so arbitrarily. It's a nuisance. Almost everything about this class sucks. You'll most likely not get an A just because she keeps arbitrarily removing a few points on every assignment so that you just slowly creep farther from the A. Take this class with literally any other professor if you can. And avoid taking this class in general if you can, you'll learn nothing but searchable formulas.
Natalia Tchetcherina STAT440 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/05/2025	NEVER TAKE THIS CLASS WITH HER. She is one of the worst professors I have ever had teach me. She has a very limited vocabulary in English and does not answer questions asked in class. As other reviews have mentioned she makes the class have an excessive workload to the point that most of my semester was dedicated to this class. First of all she makes quizzes every week which are just testing if you know formulas and does not let you leave after taking the quiz and forces you to stay for the entirety of her class. Speaking of the class, I have not learned a single useful thing in that class so far other than some formulas which nor I or the rest of my classmates know how to use in the real world. A lot of the grade depends on a group project ,which is nice, but she grades it very harshly and forces you to resubmit multiple times. There is also almost daily classwork which is very annoying and mostly just grunt work and on top of all of this she also has the audacity to assign homework and grade it as if it was a test. There is so much work, I often forget that my major is not Stat! NEVER, AND I MEAN NEVER TAKE THIS CLASS WITH HER UNLESS SOMEONE PAYS YOU TO TAKE IT WITH HER. EVEN THEN YOU BETTTER BE GETTING PAID 6 FIGURES TO VOLENTARLY TAKE THIS CLASS WITH HER!
Natalia Tchetcherina STAT440 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/01/2025	I’d give this instructor zero stars if I could. She’s a poor lecturer who often ignores student questions, and when she does respond, she fails to answer what was actually asked. Attendance was so low that she introduced lecture quizzes this semester, but most students still just come in, take the quiz, and leave. She’s an extremely harsh grader on projects—deducting points for things like commented-out code—and the quizzes themselves feel like a waste of time, since they’re nothing but formula drills. Yet she’s incredibly nitpicky when grading them. I haven’t learned anything in this class beyond a handful of arbitrary formulas from her slides, with almost no context on when to use them or how they apply in the real world. The class also has a very excessive workload (mostly gruntwork) for how little she actually teaches us. DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR FOR ANYTHING YOU WILL WASTE YOUR TIME!
Natalia Tchetcherina STAT440 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/25/2025	Took this class back in Spring 2024, and man I hated every moment of it. The whole course revolves around a semester-long group project. If you don't choose a good group, you are screwed. We'd have weekly reports for the project, and grading was very random. She took off points just because it seemed. You are able to resubmit but with a 5% deduction each time. My group for real clutched the entire semester. Other than the project, the homework and the "in-class assignments" (you simply do these after the class) was excessive. In some weeks, we'd have a long homwork, long in class assignment, AND a project report due. She seems nice but looks can be deceiving. Avoid this class if you can, but if you can't, be sure to choose a good group and you'll be ok to pass the class but it ain't enough to get an A.
Natalia Tchetcherina STAT440 Expecting a D Anonymous 01/07/2025	Avoid at all costs, extremely arbitrary grading, no matter how many resubmissions and office hours we went to, we failed every report. I put so much work into this class, more than anything else on my schedule, and it is because of the professor, not the class.
Natalia Tchetcherina STAT470 Expecting an A DenialWhammy 05/19/2024	Not going to lie, she doesn't speak English that well, so it's difficult to ask questions. However, this material is extremely self-studyable going off of her PowerPoints and the textbook. If you want an engaging professor, you should look elsewhere, but if by yourself, this is very manageable, and she gives a fat curve + extra credit + extremely lenient exam grading as long as you show knowledge of the concepts. Don't take this class for the actual exam though, the first half is useful, but the second half is not really related to FM content.
Natalia Tchetcherina STAT470 Anonymous 03/28/2024	Exams are hard, and has no relation with practice exam. Do not take her. She makes this class extremely hard. She read from PowerPoint slides without explaining anything. .
Natalia Tchetcherina STAT470 Expecting a W Anonymous 02/19/2024	Lots of work and classwork is due on every class day. Taking this course with other professor. She is not the best choice for taking the course.
Natalia Tchetcherina STAT440 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/06/2024	While Natalia seems like a kind person, it was hard to understand her in lectures, and it seems like most people (myself included) stopped attending within the first few weeks because of this. Additionally, this course has an excessive workload in my opinion. There were homework assignments and report submissions due almost every week and classwork assignments due almost every day (and the classwork is really just extra homework, since it's not done in class). There were times when a homework assignment, report submission, and classwork assignment would all be due on the same day. Assignments also seemed needlessly lengthy. I don't think a reduced workload would have hindered our understanding of the material. Another major issue was grading. Homework and classwork assignments were graded relatively fairly, but the grading on reports seemed very arbitrary. Natalia would leave comments on reports and assign a grade, but there was no indication of how many points were lost for what. A simple mistake in one part that caused other parts to be incorrect could result in her giving your group a 60% on a report. She did allow resubmissions, with a 5 point penalty each time. However, even this system was flawed: after fixing all the issues she pointed out and resubmitting, she would point out additional issues that were not mentioned previously. Because of this, we had to resubmit some reports 3, 4, or even 5 times. Finally, some assignments just weren't structured well. Instructions were often unclear, leaving us to figure things out on our own. Also, most of the homework and classwork assignments required using R, but Natalia would just put brief instructions in the assignment. I know other professors in the STAT department provide R Markdown notebooks for assignments, with the instructions and starter code included. This would be much better in my opinion, so we could just focus on writing the R code necessary to solve the problems and writing our analysis. Overall, while Natalia seems like a kind person, the confusing lectures, excessive workload, arbitrary grading, and assignment issues made the class somewhat dysfunctional. While it is still possible to do well in the class despite these issues, I would recommend taking the class with any other professor if possible.
Natalia Tchetcherina STAT440 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/12/2023	While Natalia seems like a kind person, it was hard to understand her in lectures, and it seems like most people (myself included) stopped attending within the first few weeks because of this. Additionally, this course has an excessive workload in my opinion. There were homework assignments and report submissions due almost every week and classwork assignments due almost every day (and the classwork is really just extra homework, since it's not done in class). There were times when a homework assignment, report submission, and classwork assignment would all be due on the same day. Assignments also seemed needlessly lengthy. I don't think a reduced workload would have hindered our understanding of the material. Another major issue was grading. Homework and classwork assignments were graded relatively fairly, but the grading on reports seemed very arbitrary. Natalia would leave comments on reports and assign a grade, but there was no indication of how many points were lost for what. A simple mistake in one part that caused other parts to be incorrect could result in her giving your group a 60% on a report. She did allow resubmissions, with a 5 point penalty each time. However, even this system was flawed: after fixing all the issues she pointed out and resubmitting, she would point out additional issues that were not mentioned previously. Because of this, we had to resubmit some reports 3, 4, or even 5 times. Finally, some assignments just weren't structured well. Instructions were often unclear, leaving us to figure things out on our own. Also, most of the homework and classwork assignments required using R, but Natalia would just put brief instructions in the assignment. I know other professors in the STAT department provide R Markdown notebooks for assignments, with the instructions and starter code included. This would be much better in my opinion, so we could just focus on writing the R code necessary to solve the problems and writing our analysis. Overall, while Natalia seems like a kind person, the confusing lectures, excessive workload, arbitrary grading, and assignment issues made the class somewhat dysfunctional. While it is still possible to do well in the class despite these issues, I would recommend taking the class with any other professor if possible.
Natalia Tchetcherina STAT440 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/11/2023	This class requires a semester long group project and if you are stuck with bad group members it is not going to be an enjoyable class. She also implements "class assignments" that are due at 11:59PM the same day she assigns it to make sure people are coming to class. Most of the time it is annoying, but it isn't too hard if you go to class. She often reads from the slides and does not go over examples very often (which I think is pretty important to be able to apply the content). Overall, it isn't a hard class, but it is a lot of busy work and if you don't like group work I wouldn't recommend. There are no exams and she allows you to resubmit the group assignments for a higher grade. She is a nice professor and if you ask questions she will answer. I think the class is a lot of busy work and it shouldn't be too bad if you have a good group for the project
Natalia Tchetcherina STAT401 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/21/2022	It can be difficult to understand her because she is not a native English speaker, however, all the slides she provides are straightforward to follow. The homework and classwork can be tedious but for the most part, they are fair and follow the examples she does in class and I think they are good resources that allow you to teach yourself; personally, I taught myself mostly through the work given out. There were times that I felt that the content in class did not completely line up with the homework, but since the homework was WebAssign, it is pretty simple to just quickly read the relevant part of the book that allows you to complete the homework. Since attendance isn't mandatory, it is totally feasible to get a good grade simply by completing the given work and understanding that. As for exams, I felt her practice exams gave you a good idea of what it would look like. There were some tricky parts and things you can easily lose points on (like not using the hat symbol), but for the most part, there were no "gotcha" questions. You are allowed to have a cheat sheet during the test and it becomes essentially a plug-and-chug if your notes are good. For the final, if you get an A, you automatically get an A regardless of what you got previously. I think this is a fair policy that should apply to many classes. Her grading can be a bit picky for Classworks but she is willing to hear you out and give you back points here and there if it is reasonable. From my experience, she is one of the kindest teachers I have had and I would take her again. I feel like if you do all the work she gives, getting an A- for this class is guaranteed. I would take her in the future.
Natalia Tchetcherina STAT440 Anonymous 11/15/2022	Assigns a lot of busy work (but it's usually pretty simple). There were no exams in this class, but there was a semester long group project. She mostly taught stuff off the slides while deriving some aspects or going over examples on the board. She has a heavy accent.
Natalia Tchetcherina STAT440 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/19/2021	She is a really sweet person and makes Stat440 very easy (honestly too easy). There were no exams, but weekly homeworks, "concept checks", and a semester long project. But she lets you resubmit your reports for a better grade. Really great format for the course and a great semester with her.
Natalia Tchetcherina STAT440 Anonymous 01/12/2021	Class consisted (online format) of daily assignments, weekly homeworks, and a very long class project that she supports you with. Concepts are not too hard, she teaches them well. Very friendly and cares about her students. Very happy I took this class.
Natalia Tchetcherina STAT401 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/04/2021	Natalia was a fine professor, and she recorded all of the zoom lectures which was helpful. There were daily classwork assignments at the start of the semester, which were graded pretty harshly, which I found frustrating. She also used WebAssign for homeworks, so there was always at least a bit of work. Tests were fair though, and if you got an A on the cumulative final you got an A no matter how you did before, which felt fair to me.
Natalia Tchetcherina STAT400 Expecting an A cnaka 01/24/2018	Natalia's lectures consisted of her reading slides from a board. She has difficult to understand and I absorbed very little of the material from her, the only reason I went to class was due to her attendance requirements. (I do not believe she made the slides) The homework was the most challenging parts of the course and did a good job expanding on what was done in class. The exams deviated very little from the practice exams, so while some of the questions should have been challenging, they were not.
Natalia Tchetcherina STAT440 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/01/2018	The exam and final were fair. She taught by going over slides she created and posted on elms and working examples on the board (not posted anywhere else). She was a good teacher overall and I found going to lecture very useful. Homework is tedious, but not very difficult. She has a very strong accent, but I had no difficulty understanding her after the 3rd lecture. The final project was fun, but very long. Interesting class and good professor.