Mark Ivy

School: Penn State University
Department: Recreation, Parks, & Tourism
Location:University Park, PA
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 This course is horrible and I couldn't agree more that MTSU failed in hiring Dr. Ivy. He thinks he is an expert on recreation, and I really believe that when you give him exactly why he wants he gets madder and lowers your grade because doesn't want to admit that you know something. STAY AWAY!!
Exams: I took this over the summer as an online course. Tests were essay style and were HORRIBLE. Like the other person said if you did not totally agree and respond to the question based on what Dr. Ivy had in his head(which he neglects to tell you) you will do very bad. I put in four hours on a three page paper and barely passed. I have been on the Dean's list all of my college career so I am no amateur to writing papers!
Homework: Lots of reading, discussion postings. 3 Field Observations, and requirement of meeting another student and teaching/learning an activity.(Yeah, some people had to drive HOURS to meet another student to learn a 30 minute card game)
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 Dr. Ivy never really taught the class. We sat around in groups and discussed topics that were not relevant or helpful. He is not prepared, he is incompetent, and he thinks he knows more than what he really does. He is a pseudo-intellectual. I do not know how he was ever permitted to teach at the college level. He talks in a monotone and a very low voice which is barely audible and very irritating. With teachers like Dr. Ivy, college students will continue to get a substandard education and will not be prepared to enter the workforce and become productive citizens. STUDENTS DO NOT TAKE DR. IVY UNLESS YOU WANT TO COMMIT "EDUCATIONAL SUICIDE." I do not understand how someone like Dr. Ivy would even be hired in the first place. The MTSU HPERS department must be very desperate to allow someone like this to continue to so call educate the "children of tomorrow." MTSU has failed miserably with Dr. Ivy, and the students are the ones who have to pay the price for this lack of educational development. Dr. Ivy is a complete ZERO!!!
Exams: Tests were graded very subjectively. If you did not put down exactly what he was thinking, you got it wrong. He had unrealistic expectations for his students. He never covered the material that was on the test.
Homework: Textbook readings which he barely covered and writing letters to the Murfreesboro City Council that was just an exercise in futility.

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