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BIOL 2025

Medical Terminology · 1 instructor on record · 4 sections

What the course score is made of

83BC evaluations4 records · weight ×1.0 · Summer 2022 – Summer 2025

—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute

—RateMyProfessorsno ratings — does not contribute

That is the class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it. Who taught it, and how each of them scored, is the board below — that is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between.

What the challenge rank is made of

19thMore challenging than 19% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

84BC — “Intellectually Challenging”4 records · raw score out of 100

Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question for this class only — students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it measures intellectual challenge and NOT grading, workload or quality. Almost every BC class scores high on it, which is why it is shown as a rank rather than a score.

What the workload rank is made of

87thMore work than 87% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

73BC — “Workload”4 records · raw score out of 100

Boston College reports workload for this class only as one of five bands, not as a number of hours, and it does not publish what the bands mean — so this site will not translate it into hours. Higher means more work, which is not the same as worse.

The sciences have their own unique language and over ninety percent of the vocabulary comes from Greek and Latin roots. The goal of this course is to familiarize students with the Greek and Latin elements used to construct biomedical terminology in order to gain a better understanding of the words etymologies and meanings. Students will leave this course with: a basic knowledge of medical and clinical terminology broadly relating to human anatomy and physiology, including terminology pertaining to diagnosis and pathophysiology; an understanding of biomedical roots, suffixes, prefixes, and combined forms; a knowledge of how to construct biomedical terms; distinguish common medical abbreviations and acronyms; develop an active vocabulary of selected medical terms. This course will be a 100% on-line, asynchronous experience. Evaluation of successful mastery will include weekly, pre assigned exercises and quizzes. There will be 2-3 presentation assignments using Flip Grid software translating case studies, and a final exam.

The only instructor on record

4 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Lynn DibenedettoAssociate Professor of the Practice · Biology	884 records	87th	19th	6410 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Lynn Dibenedetto is the only instructor with evaluation records for BIOL 2025, so the number is a record, not a position. The RateMyProfessors figure is their overall score across everything they teach, not their score in this class.

Also taught by Lynn Dibenedetto

5 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
UNCS 2245First-Year Topic Seminar	32107 records	89
BIOL 4260Human Anatomy with Lab	135 records	86
BIOL 4330Human Physiology	128 records	85
BIOL 3310Human Physiology Laboratory	18 records	86
BIOL 3300Human Physiology	11 record	83

Other BIOL classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
BIOL 2040Investigations in Molecular Cell Biology Lab	2176 records	87
BIOL 1310Anatomy and Physiology Lab 1	443 records	78
BIOL 1330Anatomy and Physiology Lab 2	443 records	76
BIOL 2210Microbiology for Health Professionals Laboratory	341 records	84
BIOL 4260Human Anatomy with Lab	135 records	86
BIOL 4330Human Physiology	128 records	85

The line

All 13 items · means across 4 records

The Professor4 items

Clearly Explains MaterialThe instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.

9450th pctl

Available Outside of ClassThe instructor was available for help outside of class.

9775th pctl

Brings Out Your Best WorkThe instructor motivated me to do my best work.

9243rd pctl

Sparked My InterestThe course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.

9449th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

8728th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9148th pctl

Useful Beyond the CourseWhat I learned is applicable beyond this course.

9678th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

8832nd pctl

Gives Feedback PromptlyI received feedback on my work in a timely manner.

8939th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

8622nd pctl

Workload, difficulty & attendanceNot ratings

WorkloadHow much work the course took outside class, on Boston College's five-band scale — the band boundaries are not published, so this is not a number of hours.

7387th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

8419th pctl

Attendance MattersAttending class was necessary to do well in this course.

723rd pctl

Bar length is the rank against every comparable record we hold, not the raw score: BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so a raw-scale bar would be nearly full on every row and would tell you nothing. Every bar is one ink colour — nothing here is graded green or red. The hatched bars are not ratings at all: a higher number on either describes a different course, not a better one.

Game log

4 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Lynn Dibenedetto	Summer 2025	01	90	89	60
Lynn Dibenedetto	Summer 2024	01	93	88	80
Lynn Dibenedetto	Summer 2023	01	83	81	—
Lynn Dibenedetto	Summer 2022	01	88	73	80

How to read this boardInstructors 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.