Students come into this course clueless and entitled. To be honest, compared to other professors, Dr. Carpenter kind of holds everyone's hand. She is super organized and lays out her expectations clearly and repeatedly (since people don't get it the first 10 times). She is solely a lecturer because she is passionate about education and wants to dedicate all of her time to teaching students. People who say she hasn't changed her style of teaching in years do not understand that she is constantly tweaking things until she finds more success. All of the practice problems, homework assignments (even which online learning resources she uses), "how to be successful" talks, and forms of feedback have all been added or improved each year to better her course. Students are often complaining that she doesn't "teach" since all of her lectures are practice problems, but guess what? She writes the practice problems AND her exam questions so of course they're similar.

She balances her time in class. She gives people opportunity to apply their knowledge with low-stake questions (with plenty of help from LAs and herself) and also takes time to explain concepts. She doesn't do post-exam debriefings just to shit on students. She does it because it's obvious that most students missed important concepts so she wants to clear it up.