Class record · ENGL · MCAS

ENGL 9912

PhD Seminar: How Philosophy turned into Science: Literature and Knowledge in Early Modern England. · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

How the curve score is built

90Teaching96 raw · 88th percentile of BC classes

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

90Curve 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

96BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2023

—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
Mary CraneThomas F. Rattigan Professor · English Provisional	99100 raw · 1 record	—	—

There is no ranking to read here: Mary Crane is the only instructor with evaluation records for ENGL 9912, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional.

Also taught by Mary Crane

4 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
ENGL 1715Revolutionary Media: How Reading Changes Us	13 records	83
ENGL 4526Shakespeare: Early Plays	22 records	88
ENGL 6010Seminar: Shakespeare: Truth and Lies	12 records	93
ENGL 6005Seminar: Knowing the Other in Early Modern England	11 record	90

Other ENGL classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
ENGL 1010First Year Writing Seminar	136442 records	80
ENGL 1080Literature Core	90257 records	80
ENGL 1079Literature Core for Multilingual Students	1340 records	89
ENGL 2221Introduction to Creative Writing	936 records	90
ENGL 2133Studies in Narrative	1634 records	87
ENGL 2131Studies in Poetry	1333 records	84

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
Mary Crane	Fall 2023	01	100	96	—

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.