Carney Curve

Boston College course evaluations · Fall 2021 through Spring 2026, ranked class by class

How this list is ordered

Positions account for how many records stand behind each number, so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. Every score shown is the real average — only the ordering is adjusted.

Class record · ADCO · ADV

ADCO 1229

Investigative Journalism · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of
—BC evaluations1 record — does not contribute
—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute
—RateMyProfessorsno ratings — does not contribute

The class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it — who taught it is the board below.

How is this worked out?

That is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between: the board carries each instructor's own score for this class, and the score above is the class averaged across all of them.

What the challenge rank is made of
—BC — “Intellectually Challenging”1 record — does not contribute

Not reported in these records — which is missing data, not an easy class.

How is this worked out?

Boston College's “intellectually challenging” question was not reported in these records, so there is nothing to show. That is missing data, not an easy class.

What the workload rank is made of
—BC — “Workload”1 record — does not contribute

Not reported in these records — which is missing data, not a light class.

How is this worked out?

Boston College's workload question was not reported in these records, so there is nothing to show. That is missing data, not a light class.

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record
InstructorCurveEasinessChallenge
Jennifer BerkshireUniversity and Capstone Provisional—— raw · 1 record——

There is no ranking to read here: Jennifer Berkshire is the only instructor with evaluation records for ADCO 1229, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional.

Also taught by Jennifer Berkshire

3 other classes
ClassInstructorsCourse score
JOUR 2000Introduction to Journalism619 records86
JOUR 2246Podcasting: The Art and Craft of Digital Storytelling12 records90
JOUR 2260Covering Education11 record87

Other ADCO classes

All of them
ClassInstructorsCourse score
ADCO 1005Introduction to Communications14 records79
ADCO 1020Survey of Mass Communication24 records87
ADCO 3041Persuasive Communication14 records80
ADCO 1771Applied Data Analysis and Interpretation12 records61
ADCO 2001Writing for the Digital Space12 records78
ADCO 2002Digital Storytelling12 records85

The line

All 13 items · means across 1 record

Nothing reported

None of the evaluation questions were reported for these records.

Game log

1 section · newest first
InstructorTermSecInstrCourseWork
Jennifer BerkshireSpring 202611———
How to read this board

Instructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.