The following were provided anonymously from 53 undergraduate students in Econ. 200: Basic Economic Issues from Pre-Session 1999 (pre-session runs for 3 weeks, meeting 5 days a week for 3 hours, and counts for semster credit):

Question: What is your overall rating of this instructor's teaching effectiveness?

Scale: 5=almost always effective, 4 = usually effective,...,1= almost never effective

Mean Rating: 4.65

Question: What has the instructor done especially well in this course section?

"Very good lecturer.  Notes are clear and definitely Mary enjoys teaching Economics!  Made summer school fun and I learned a lot of material."

"Mary Rigdon is awesome!  She is one of the best teachers I have had at U of A."

"Well prepared, provides good lectures and creates an exciting environment for learning economics."

"Mary is one of the best teachers to learn economics with."

"I really enjoyed this class.  It is a new type of material and I thought I would hate it, but I'm finding it fascinating.  Mary does a good job explaining it."

"Clear organization of concepts!"

"Everything.  Great teacher."

"She has done a good job of explaining things that weren't necessarily clear in the book.  The experiments were also informative."

"Great instructor, really loves teaching and teaching this class."

"She is very easy to understand and she will repeat if someone doesn't understand."