Class record · EESC · MCAS

EESC 5531

Paleobiology · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

How the curve score is built

70Teaching80 raw · 26th percentile of BC classes

±0Easiness adjustmentworkload not reported — takes nothing off the score

70Curve 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

80BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · 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

—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

Instructor	Curve	Easiness	Challenge
Paul StrotherEarth and Environmental Sciences Provisional	99100 raw · 1 record	—	—

There is no ranking to read here: Paul Strother is the only instructor with evaluation records for EESC 5531, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional.

Also taught by Paul Strother

4 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
EESC 1146Origin and Evolution of Life on Earth	113 records	77
EESC 3330Paleobiology	13 records	77
EESC 3335Topics in Geobiology	11 record	65
EESC 5536Topics in Geobiology	11 record	100

Other EESC classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
EESC 1720Crisis and Storytelling in the Age of Climate Change	532 records	74
EESC 2201Environmental Systems: The Human Footprint	516 records	72
EESC 1717Making the Modern World: Design, Ethics, and Engineering	315 records	82
EESC 1507Powering America: The Past and Future of Energy, Technology, and the Environment	314 records	80
EESC 1146Origin and Evolution of Life on Earth	113 records	77
EESC 1180The Living Earth I	313 records	67

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

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Paul Strother	Spring 2026	01	100	80	—

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.