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 · ADHS · ADV

ADHS 3001

History of Boston: Brahmins to Bosses to Busing · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

How the curve score is built
72Teaching83 raw · 33rd percentile of BC classes
±0Easiness adjustmentworkload not reported — takes nothing off the score
72Curve scorethe teaching curve — nothing added or taken off

Boston College's ratings are bunched at the top — the median instructor averages about 88 out of 100 on the raw scale, and 44% of them clear 90 — so a raw score cannot separate anybody. Every figure here is ranked against BC classes and that rank is re-expressed out of 100, which is what turns a raw 88 — the middle of the university — into a figure that says where somebody actually stands. On this scale 77 is the median, 84 the top quarter and 91 the top tenth. Workload is then an adjustment on top of that, worth nothing at all for an ordinary one. Boston College's workload question was not reported in these records, so easiness could not be worked out. That is missing data, not a heavy class — and it takes nothing off the score.

What the course score is made of
83BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2023
—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
Christopher HannanAdvancing Studies Provisional7889 raw · 1 record——

There is no ranking to read here: Christopher Hannan is the only instructor with evaluation records for ADHS 3001, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional.

Also taught by Christopher Hannan

3 other classes
ClassInstructorsCourse score
ADHS 1605History of New England12 records89
ADHS 1130History of Boston: Puritans to Patriots11 record94
ADHS 1610Special Topics: Sea Power and World Maritime History11 record92

Other ADHS classes

All of them
ClassInstructorsCourse score
ADHS 1801Themes of African History19 records89
ADHS 1902The Late Ottoman Empire and Egypt16 records87
ADHS 1081Modern History I24 records91
ADHS 2210For God and Country13 records81
ADHS 2320Remaking Europe - Marshall Plan to Brexit13 records91
ADHS 3002Women and Gender in World History13 records89

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
Christopher HannanFall 2023018983—
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.