PSYCH 120B / SHAMS, LADAN

Sensation and Perception

How PSYCH 120B grades when SHAMS, LADAN teaches it. PSYCH 120B, every instructor SHAMS, LADAN, every course

Grades, this instructor

3.64adjusted historical GPA, this instructor

1,660 letter grades across 9 terms, Fall 2021 to Spring 2025. The course pools every instructor at 3.60 over 2,534 letter grades.

Raw average: 3.64; The mean of this instructor's recorded letter grades in this course.
In the A range: 76.1%; A+, A and A minus out of 1660 letter grades.
D, F or W: 2.3%; D-range and F grades plus withdrawals, divided by letter grades plus withdrawals.
Taken pass/no pass: 0.4%; 5 of 6 pass/no-pass outcomes passed. Share is of letter, P/NP and S/U outcomes.

Grade distribution

A+111 / 6.7%
A913 / 55%
A-239 / 14.4%
B+124 / 7.5%
B109 / 6.6%
B-65 / 3.9%
C+27 / 1.6%
C17 / 1%
C-17 / 1%
D+9 / 0.5%
D7 / 0.4%
D-1 / 0.1%
F21 / 1.3%
I2 of 1,668
NP1 of 1,668
P5 of 1,668

Percentages are of the 1,660 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and incompletes (I). They are excluded from GPA.

Term by term

Raw averages for the terms in this record. A missing term does not establish that this instructor did not teach it. Summer sessions are included when present.

Dashed line: course average across all instructors, 3.60.

One recorded instructorCo-taught, grades shared

Fall 20213.74194 letter grades.

Winter 20223.78196 letter grades.

Spring 20223.86195 letter grades.

Summer Session A 20223.7567 letter grades.

Spring 20233.20174 letter grades.

Fall 20233.45209 letter grades.

Spring 20243.85204 letter grades.

Winter 20253.46213 letter grades.

Spring 20253.69208 letter grades.

Is one term a guide to the next?

Across the measured corpus, the same course and instructor's term averages were strongly correlated, including terms several years apart. That is why the adjustment does not weight recent terms more heavily. This is a dataset-wide pattern, not a promise about this instructor's next class.

Teaching it in Fall 2026

Section

Lec 1

MW 12:30pm-1:45pm

Seats

Open

12 seats left.

204 of 216 enrolled

Seat risk

medium risk

An estimate, separate from the seat reading.

Read October 16, 2026 at 5:52 PM PDT. Seat counts can change before you enroll.

Every linked section (8)

Dis 1CM 4:00pm-4:50pmopen: 5 seats left.

Dis 1GF 10:00am-10:50amclosed: 27 of 27 enrolled

Dis 1AM 2:00pm-2:50pmclosed: 27 of 27 enrolled

Dis 1BM 3:00pm-3:50pmclosed: 27 of 27 enrolled

Dis 1DM 5:00pm-5:50pmopen: 1 seat left.

Dis 1FR 12:00pm-12:50pmopen: 5 seats left.

Dis 1ER 11:00am-11:50amclosed: 27 of 27 enrolled

Dis 1HF 11:00am-11:50amopen: 1 seat left.

Every PSYCH 120B section and instructor

Reading these figures

Raw is the mean of the recorded letter grades. The adjusted historical GPA pulls an instructor's average toward the course's adjusted average, which itself uses a department prior. It is a comparison aid, not a calibrated prediction or a student rating. Small samples carry more uncertainty. All recorded instructor roles are included, and a section is counted only once for this instructor. Grades cannot establish workload or explain why outcomes differed.

What students say

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