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ENGL 1009

First Year Writing Seminar for Multilingual Students · 12 instructors on record · 27 sections

How the curve score is built

78Teaching88 raw · 52nd percentile of BC classes

±0Easiness adjustmenteasiness 78 · 56 raw workload · lighter than 54% of BC classes

78Curve scorethe teaching curve ±0 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 54% of BC classes.

What the course score is made of

88BC evaluations27 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – Fall 2025

—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

25thMore challenging than 25% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

86BC — “Intellectually Challenging”27 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

46thMore work than 46% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

56BC — “Workload”27 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.

Limited to 15 students; Satisfies core requirement for writing;Department Permission RequiredThis course, the first half of a year-long sequence of core English courses, is designed for students whose first language is something other than English. In this workshop, students will develop a portfolio of personal and academic writing and provide ongoing feedback to one another as part of a writing community. They will write and rewrite essays throughout the semester, discuss their works-in-progress, and receive feedback during individual conferences with the instructor. Students read a wide range of texts and consider the structure and organization of English rhetoric as they work to develop their own prose. Seats are prioritized for students who have been recommended for targeted language support. This course may be taken in place of ENGL 1010. Students place into this course based on BC's English Writing Assessment taken during the summer prior to freshmen year or in consultation with the director of the program, lynne.anderson@bc.edu

The board

12 instructors · ranked on this class onlyCompare the top 3

Find an instructor among the 12Filters 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. 3 of the 12 rows carry a mark saying so.

Rank	Instructor	Curve	Easiness	Challenge	RMP overall
1	Amanda LabriolaEnglish	9499 raw · 5 records	68−2 to the score	57th	1009 ratings · all classes
2	Lorenzo PuenteEnglish	9197 raw · 5 records	75±0 to the score	32nd	9817 ratings · all classes
3	Megan Bowman ArndtEnglish Provisional fewer records	9699 raw · 2 records	78±0 to the score	18th	—no page
4	Megan HollyEnglish	8392 raw · 4 records	78±0 to the score	13th	—no page
5	Deanna DanforthEnglish Provisional fewer records	99100 raw · 1 record	84+2 to the score	48th	—no page
6	Adam AgostinelliTeacher Education and Currriculum and Instruction Provisional	8593 raw · 1 record	—	69th	—no page
7	Lauren WilwerdingAssistant Professor of the Practice · English Provisional	8393 raw · 1 record	—	—	863 ratings · all classes
8	Kara McCabeEnglish Provisional	7689 raw · 1 record	68−2 to the score	5th	1001 rating · all classes
9	Simon ShankoEnglish Provisional	7588 raw · 1 record	68−2 to the score	25th	—no page
10	Brian ZimmermanEnglish Provisional	6882 raw · 1 record	68−2 to the score	60th	7214 ratings · all classes
11	Kristin ImreEnglish Provisional fewer records	6071 raw · 2 records	68−2 to the score	34th	—no page
12	Pyunghwa LeeEnglish	6679 raw · 3 records	68−2 to the score	2nd	—no page

All 12 instructors listed.

8 of 12 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 27 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

27 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Megan Bowman Arndt	Fall 2025	04	100	100	40
Simon Shanko	Fall 2025	06	88	86	60
Amanda Labriola	Fall 2025	07	98	92	60
Megan Bowman Arndt	Fall 2025	08	97	95	60
Amanda Labriola	Fall 2025	09	98	100	60
Amanda Labriola	Fall 2025	10	100	84	60
Kara McCabe	Fall 2024	01	89	86	60
Lorenzo Puente	Fall 2024	03	100	90	60
Lorenzo Puente	Fall 2024	04	91	91	40
Amanda Labriola	Fall 2024	07	97	95	60
Pyunghwa Lee	Fall 2024	08	69	67	60
Pyunghwa Lee	Fall 2024	09	80	80	60
Lauren Wilwerding	Fall 2023	01	93	93	—
Lorenzo Puente	Fall 2023	02	98	89	—
Pyunghwa Lee	Fall 2023	05	89	87	—
Amanda Labriola	Fall 2023	06	100	100	—
Brian Zimmerman	Fall 2022	01	82	78	60
Lorenzo Puente	Fall 2022	02	94	92	60
Megan Holly	Fall 2022	03	91	77	—
Megan Holly	Fall 2022	04	92	91	60
Kristin Imre	Fall 2022	05	77	75	60
Kristin Imre	Fall 2021	01	64	60	60
Lorenzo Puente	Fall 2021	02	100	100	60
Megan Holly	Fall 2021	03	85	78	—
Deanna Danforth	Fall 2021	05	100	95	40

Showing the first 25.

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.