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 2202

Macroeconomic Theory · 20 instructors on record · 72 sections

How the curve score is built
60Teaching69 raw · 6th percentile of BC classes
+1Easiness adjustmenteasiness 79 · 54 raw workload · lighter than 57% of BC classes
61Curve scorethe teaching curve +1 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 57% of BC classes.

What the course score is made of
69BC evaluations72 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
41stMore challenging than 41% of BC classesranked against every one we hold
89BC — “Intellectually Challenging”72 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
43rdMore work than 43% of BC classesranked against every one we hold
54BC — “Workload”72 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 intended to equip the student for the analysis of the determination of employment and national income. Emphasis will be placed on the Keynesian theory of employment, interest, and money and on post-Keynesian macroeconomic models.

The board

20 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. 5 of the 20 rows carry a mark saying so.

RankInstructorCurveEasinessChallengeRMP overall
1William BrysonEconomics Provisional7485 raw · 2 records78±0 to the score63rd—no page
2Shane McMikenEconomics Provisional7386 raw · 2 records68−2 to the score76th—no page
3Enrico CristoforoniEconomics Provisional6275 raw · 1 record68−2 to the score37th—no page
4Robert UlbrichtEconomics Provisional5665 raw · 1 record68−2 to the score80th—no page
5Xiaoying LanEconomics Provisional fewer records4747 raw · 1 record68−2 to the score17th—no page
6Ilaria DangelisEconomics Provisional6876 raw · 2 records84+2 to the score49th—no page
7Mahmodul HassanEconomics Provisional fewer records6882 raw · 2 records68−2 to the score33rd—no page
8Swapnil SharmaEconomics7084 raw · 3 records68−2 to the score74th—no page
9Luca GemmiEconomics Provisional6779 raw · 2 records78±0 to the score72nd—no page
10Liang ZhangEconomics Provisional6674 raw · 2 records84+2 to the score49th—no page
11Juan Luis Fuentes AcostaEconomics Provisional6166 raw · 2 records84+2 to the score51st—no page
12Marco ErricoEconomics Provisional5767 raw · 2 records68−2 to the score53rd664 ratings · all classes
13Luigi PollioEconomics Provisional fewer records5563 raw · 2 records68−2 to the score61st6818 ratings · all classes
14Luis Morano GermaniInstructor · Economics6477 raw · 3 records68−2 to the score36th—no page
15Dimitar SimeonovEconomics fewer records6172 raw · 3 records68−2 to the score61st663 ratings · all classes
16Jaromir NosalEconomics6376 raw · 5 records68−2 to the score36th864 ratings · all classes
17Fabio SchiantarelliEconomics fewer records5967 raw · 4 records75±0 to the score48th346 ratings · all classes
18Veysel UlusoyEconomics6475 raw · 8 records77±0 to the score29th5431 ratings · all classes
19Sanjay MoorjaniEconomics6373 raw · 9 records75±0 to the score48th—no page
20Brian BethuneEconomics5355 raw · 16 records77±0 to the score20th328 ratings · all classes

All 20 instructors listed.

12 of 20 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 72 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

72 sections · newest first
InstructorTermSecInstrCourseWork
Brian BethuneSpring 2026015863—
Fabio SchiantarelliSpring 202602736960
Liang ZhangSpring 202603827840
Liang ZhangSpring 202604666640
Brian BethuneSpring 202605616660
Luis Morano GermaniSpring 202606737060
Luis Morano GermaniSpring 202607827460
Veysel UlusoyFall 202501797460
Luis Morano GermaniFall 202502757260
Brian BethuneFall 202503535460
Brian BethuneFall 202504536040
Shane McMikenFall 202505868260
Shane McMikenFall 202506878160
Enrico CristoforoniFall 202507757360
Swapnil SharmaSummer 202501878760
Swapnil SharmaSummer 2025028787—
Brian BethuneSpring 202501555740
Fabio SchiantarelliSpring 202502686860
Veysel UlusoySpring 2025037777—
Veysel UlusoySpring 202504636740
Brian BethuneSpring 2025065056—
Mahmodul HassanSpring 202508778060
Sanjay MoorjaniSpring 202508818060
Mahmodul HassanSpring 202509867660
Sanjay MoorjaniSpring 202509807660

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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.