Carney Curve

Boston College course evaluations · Fall 2021 through Spring 2026, ranked class by class

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 · ENVS · MCAS

ENVS 1702

The World With Us: Conserving Nature in a Time of Crisis · 1 instructor on record · 4 sections

How the curve score is built
85Teaching93 raw · 78th percentile of BC classes
±0Easiness adjustmentworkload not reported — takes nothing off the score
85Curve 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
93BC evaluations4 records · 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”4 records — 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”4 records — 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

4 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record
InstructorCurveEasinessChallenge
Vena OffenComplex Problems and Enduring Questions9096 raw · 4 records——

There is no ranking to read here: Vena Offen is the only instructor with evaluation records for ENVS 1702, so the number is a record, not a position.

Also taught by Vena Offen

6 other classes
ClassInstructorsCourse score
ENVS 1075Understanding and Protecting Our Oceans in the Wake of Global Change317 records75
EESC 1507Powering America: The Past and Future of Energy, Technology, and the Environment314 records80
BIOL 1706Understanding and Protecting Our Oceans in the Wake of Global Change313 records75
HIST 1513Powering America: The Past and Future of Energy, Technology, and the Environment38 records84
MCBI 1100General Biology37 records87
ENVS 3322Marine Conservation Science11 record74

Other ENVS classes

All of them
ClassInstructorsCourse score
ENVS 2256Environmental Law and Policy2443 records88
ENVS 1075Understanding and Protecting Our Oceans in the Wake of Global Change317 records75
ENVS 4943Environmental Seminar511 records75
ENVS 3360Research Methods in Environmental Studies28 records74
ENVS 4941ENVS: Senior Research Seminar I18 records72
ENVS 4942ENVS: Senior Research Seminar II18 records71

The line

All 13 items · means across 4 records

Nothing reported

None of the evaluation questions were reported for these records.

Game log

4 sections · newest first
InstructorTermSecInstrCourseWork
Vena OffenFall 2023019592—
Vena OffenFall 2023029089—
Vena OffenFall 2023039896—
Vena OffenFall 20230410097—
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.