Carney Curve

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

Top of the board1.PRTO 3300982.UNAS 3348903.MUSP 1670944.COMM 1060925.MUSP 1660926.ECON 9902887.BSLW 2299918.PHIL 4932939.COMM 19029010.UGMG 10109311.MUSP 26009912.TMPS 803495
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 · ECON · MCAS

ECON 1101

Principles of Economics · 46 instructors on record · 223 sections

How the curve score is built
63Teaching73 raw · 10th percentile of BC classes
+2Easiness adjustmenteasiness 84 · 41 raw workload · lighter than 75% of BC classes
65Curve scorethe teaching curve +2 for the workload · at most ±6 either way

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. Lighter work than 75% of BC classes.

What the course score is made of
73BC evaluations223 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – Spring 2026
—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
16thMore challenging than 16% of BC classesranked against every one we hold
84BC — “Intellectually Challenging”223 records · raw score out of 100

Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question. It is not a measure of difficulty, grading or workload.

How is this worked out?

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
25thMore work than 25% of BC classesranked against every one we hold
41BC — “Workload”223 records · raw score out of 100

One of Boston College's five workload bands, not a number of hours. Higher means more work, not worse.

How is this worked out?

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.

This course is an analysis of prices, output, and income distribution through the interaction of households and business firms in a modern Western economy. It also includes an analysis of national income and employment, economic fluctuations, monetary and fiscal policy, inflation, growth, and international aspects of macroeconomic policy. The appropriate role of government intervention is examined, and basic analytical tools are applied to current economic problems. Open to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors. Course is open to seniors by department permission.

The board

46 instructors · ranked on this class onlyCompare the top 3
Filters the rows below. Positions are always against the whole class, so a rank does not change when the list is narrowed.

Scores are real averages. The order also accounts for how many records back each one — the count is under every score — so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. 13 of the 46 rows carry a mark saying so.

RankInstructorCurveEasinessChallengeRMP overall
1Jaeyeong KimEconomics Provisional8793 raw · 2 records84+2 to the score29th—no page
2Can ErbilProfessor of the Practice · Economics7988 raw · 8 records83+2 to the score29th9257 ratings · all classes
3Paul SarkisEconomics7884 raw · 6 records97+5 to the score3rd—no page
4Catherine LawlorEconomics7683 raw · 3 records97+5 to the score26th—no page
5Kevin ChoiEconomics7581 raw · 3 records97+5 to the score31st—no page
6Cristian Figueroa BerriosEconomics Provisional6980 raw · 1 record—48th—no page
7Haydar EvrenEconomics Provisional fewer records6780 raw · 1 record68−2 to the score29th—no page
8Aleksandar TomicAssociate Dean, Strategy, Innovation, & Technology · Economics Provisional fewer records7180 raw · 2 records84+2 to the score12th708 ratings · all classes
9Peter DevineAssistant Professor of the Practice · Economics7383 raw · 4 records84+2 to the score32nd8035 ratings · all classes
10Jarod CoulterEconomics Provisional fewer records6068 raw · 1 record—1st—no page
11Edoardo BellaEconomics Provisional6979 raw · 2 records84+2 to the score26th—no page
12Linqi ZhangEconomics Provisional fewer records5669 raw · 1 record58−5 to the score12th—no page
13Juan Baquero VargasEconomics7080 raw · 3 records81+1 to the score19th—no page
14Marco ErricoEconomics7074 raw · 3 records99+6 to the score1st664 ratings · all classes
15Yuanchen CaiEconomics fewer records7080 raw · 3 records84+2 to the score18th—no page
16Rodrigo Gonzalez ValdenegroEconomics7379 raw · 9 records95+5 to the score27th—no page
17Yuedan WangEconomics7379 raw · 9 records95+5 to the score41st—no page
18Anirudh Padinjaray PisharamEconomics7279 raw · 6 records97+5 to the score17th—no page
19Vaibhav OjhaEconomics Provisional fewer records6481 raw · 2 records58−5 to the score48th—no page
20Sanjay MoorjaniEconomics7176 raw · 6 records99+6 to the score9th—no page
21Zachary SaundersEconomics7182 raw · 8 records80+1 to the score12th—no page
22Zhengtao ZengEconomics7176 raw · 8 records97+5 to the score15th—no page
23Christian Fernando Velasquez JavierEconomics6677 raw · 3 records———no page
24Mingyang WeiEconomics6673 raw · 3 records84+2 to the score37th—no page
25Alessandro LaviaEconomics Provisional fewer records5963 raw · 2 records84+2 to the score6th—no page
26Joseph WilskeEconomics7181 raw · 9 records84+2 to the score16th—no page
27Maria BejanAssociate Professor of the Practice · Economics6775 raw · 4 records84+2 to the score18th668 ratings · all classes
28Deyin JiaEconomics6365 raw · 3 records97+5 to the score1st—no page
29Pietro VisaggioEconomics6370 raw · 3 records81+1 to the score21st—no page
30Simone PesceEconomics fewer records6373 raw · 3 records78±0 to the score17th—no page
31Ryan FaulknerEconomics6674 raw · 4 records84+2 to the score36th—no page
32Giada BozzelliEconomics6170 raw · 3 records78±0 to the score19th—no page
33Yaakov LevinEconomics fewer records6168 raw · 3 records81+1 to the score17th—no page
34Chandini SankaranEconomics6572 raw · 4 records84+2 to the score10th—no page
35Emine TasciEconomics5856 raw · 3 records97+5 to the score11th—no page
36Denis SokolovEconomics fewer records5759 raw · 3 records84+2 to the score14th—no page
37Yuzhi YaoEconomics6978 raw · 10 records84+2 to the score13th—no page
38Shengtao DaiEconomics fewer records5555 raw · 3 records84+2 to the score7th—no page
39Luis Morano GermaniInstructor · Economics6877 raw · 8 records82+1 to the score13th—no page
40Liang ZhangEconomics6674 raw · 8 records84+2 to the score13th—no page
41Ali SimsekEconomics6473 raw · 7 records81+1 to the score14th—no page
42Tracy ReganUniversity and Capstone fewer records5963 raw · 5 records80+1 to the score29th5061 ratings · all classes
43Yunus Semih CoskunEconomics6777 raw · 12 records82+1 to the score25th—no page
44Yuval LidanyEconomics6363 raw · 9 records96+5 to the score29th—no page
45Anshuman BhakriEconomics fewer records6169 raw · 8 records76±0 to the score19th—no page
46Manchun WangEconomics6467 raw · 12 records96+5 to the score13th—no page

All 46 instructors listed.

9 of 46 rows are marked provisional: fewer than 3 records stand behind the number. That is thin evidence, not a bad instructor — the record count is in every row. The RateMyProfessors column is an instructor's overall figure across everything they teach, not a figure about this class.

How this board is built and 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. The comparison here is the class itself: a thin record is read against how this class was rated overall, not against the university.

Every instructor with an evaluation record for this class is on this board — it is not a top ten, and nothing is hidden behind a “show more”. Curve is the instructor's score for THIS class only, ranked against every instructor we hold and printed back out of 100, with the raw BC average underneath it; nothing on this board is an average across the other things they teach. Easiness is an adjustment on top of it, worth up to about ±6 — BC's workload item, ranked and turned over, so a lighter section gains and a heavier one loses, while an ordinary one changes nothing — and each row prints the adjustment, signed. The board is ordered on the same figure it prints, adjusted for how many records back it. Challenge is BC's “intellectually challenging” item shown as a rank against every class we hold; students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it is not a measure of difficulty or grading, and it is never marked better or worse.

That site has no course dimension, so its figure is shown for information and kept out of the ranking.

The line

All 13 items · means across 223 records
Instructor4
Course3
Feedback3
Workload & Challengenot ratings

Bars are ranks, not raw scores. Nothing here is graded good or bad.

What each item asks
Explains Clearly
The instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.
Available
The instructor was available for help outside of class.
Motivating
The instructor motivated me to do my best work.
Sparks Interest
The course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.
Organized
The course was well organized.
Clear Goals
The learning objectives for the course were clear.
Useful Later
What I learned is applicable beyond this course.
Assignments
Assignments and exams contributed to my learning.
Fast Feedback
I received feedback on my work in a timely manner.
Useful Feedback
The feedback I received on my work was meaningful.
Workload
How 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.
Challenge
The course was intellectually challenging.
Attendance
Attending class was necessary to do well in this course.
Why these numbers are curved

Both the number and the bar are the rank against every comparable record we hold, printed back out of 100. BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so on the raw scale every cell here would read in the high eighties and every bar would be nearly full — thirteen numbers that tell you nothing. Each cell prints its raw BC figure and its percentile underneath, so nothing is hidden by the transform. 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

223 sections · newest first
InstructorTermSecInstrCourseWork
Can ErbilSpring 202601857860
Edoardo BellaSpring 202602878140
Zhengtao ZengSpring 202603888540
Giada BozzelliSpring 2026046264—
Zhengtao ZengSpring 202605827740
Zhengtao ZengSpring 202606807960
Edoardo BellaSpring 2026077165—
Giada BozzelliSpring 202608687140
Zachary SaundersSpring 202609756840
Zachary SaundersSpring 202610766940
Zachary SaundersSpring 202611787240
Giada BozzelliSpring 202612797760
Maria BejanSpring 202619767440
Jaeyeong KimSpring 202621937340
Catherine LawlorSpring 202622838020
Joseph WilskeSpring 202624887540
Jaeyeong KimSpring 202625936740
Catherine LawlorSpring 202626777140
Joseph WilskeSpring 202627505040
Catherine LawlorSpring 202628878740
Joseph WilskeSpring 202629606040
Peter DevineSpring 202631787440
Mingyang WeiSpring 202632737540
Yaakov LevinSpring 202633757640
Yuedan WangSpring 202634828240

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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.