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 1151

Statistics · 27 instructors on record · 97 sections

How the curve score is built
62Teaching72 raw · 8th percentile of BC classes
+2Easiness adjustmenteasiness 83 · 46 raw workload · lighter than 70% of BC classes
64Curve 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 70% of BC classes.

What the course score is made of
72BC evaluations97 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
26thMore challenging than 26% of BC classesranked against every one we hold
86BC — “Intellectually Challenging”97 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
30thMore work than 30% of BC classesranked against every one we hold
46BC — “Workload”97 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 focused on probability, random variables, sampling distributions, estimation of parameters, tests of hypotheses, regression, and forecasting.

The board

27 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. 6 of the 27 rows carry a mark saying so.

RankInstructorCurveEasinessChallengeRMP overall
1Matthew RutledgeProfessor of the Practice · Economics8494 raw · 7 records68−2 to the score82nd9026 ratings · all classes
2Zachary SaundersEconomics8291 raw · 5 records82+1 to the score56th—no page
3Ryan WestphalEconomics8288 raw · 3 records97+5 to the score42nd—no page
4Matteo MasulloEconomics Provisional7883 raw · 2 records99+6 to the score4th—no page
5Manshu KhannaEconomics7682 raw · 6 records96+5 to the score10th—no page
6Anirudh Padinjaray PisharamEconomics Provisional7383 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score18th—no page
7Kritika GoelEconomics Provisional fewer records7383 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score9th—no page
8Taoran LiuEconomics7481 raw · 3 records97+5 to the score10th—no page
9Elena PellegriniEconomics7383 raw · 3 records84+2 to the score15th—no page
10Enrico CristoforoniEconomics Provisional7180 raw · 2 records84+2 to the score33rd—no page
11Ira AbrahamEconomics Provisional7080 raw · 2 records84+2 to the score15th601 rating · all classes
12Fangxu DuanInstructor · Economics Provisional6974 raw · 2 records97+5 to the score10th—no page
13Yuanchen CaiEconomics Provisional fewer records5763 raw · 1 record———no page
14Giada BozzelliEconomics Provisional fewer records6872 raw · 2 records97+5 to the score7th—no page
15Esther LeeEconomics7079 raw · 3 records84+2 to the score10th—no page
16Aastha MalhotraEconomics6977 raw · 3 records84+2 to the score6th—no page
17Jarod CoulterEconomics Provisional6578 raw · 2 records68−2 to the score69th—no page
18Mustafa RunyunEconomics Provisional5872 raw · 2 records55−5 to the score48th—no page
19Juan Baquero VargasEconomics Provisional5761 raw · 2 records78±0 to the score33rd—no page
20William BrysonEconomics Provisional5766 raw · 2 records68−2 to the score27th—no page
21Deyin JiaEconomics Provisional fewer records5561 raw · 2 records68−2 to the score25th—no page
22Muhammed GezerEconomics6471 raw · 3 records84+2 to the score6th—no page
23Vaibhav OjhaEconomics fewer records6063 raw · 4 records84+2 to the score15th—no page
24Federico RodariEconomics6979 raw · 15 records82+1 to the score27th—no page
25Yufeng ShiEconomics fewer records6070 raw · 5 records68−2 to the score52nd—no page
26Pietro VisaggioEconomics6471 raw · 7 records84+2 to the score12th—no page
27Paul CichelloEconomics5563 raw · 7 records68−2 to the score65th4846 ratings · all classes

All 27 instructors listed.

13 of 27 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 97 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

97 sections · newest first
InstructorTermSecInstrCourseWork
Paul CichelloSpring 202602545560
Jarod CoulterSpring 202603706060
Jarod CoulterSpring 202604867660
Taoran LiuSpring 202605897740
Taoran LiuSpring 202606797520
Federico RodariSpring 202607726040
Matteo MasulloSpring 2026088469—
Federico RodariSpring 202610848340
Taoran LiuSpring 202611746640
Matteo MasulloSpring 202612837320
Anirudh Padinjaray PisharamSpring 202613837240
Matthew RutledgeFall 202502938460
Juan Baquero VargasFall 202503565540
Juan Baquero VargasFall 202504676160
Federico RodariFall 202505847940
Federico RodariFall 202509827540
Federico RodariFall 202513777140
Federico RodariSummer 202501909480
Federico RodariSummer 2025028484—
Mustafa RunyunSummer 202503738080
Mustafa RunyunSummer 2025047063100
Paul CichelloSpring 202502595660
Zachary SaundersSpring 202503918560
Zachary SaundersSpring 202504917640
Vaibhav OjhaSpring 202505514940

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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.