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 · ENVS · MCAS

ENVS 2256

Environmental Law and Policy · 24 instructors on record · 43 sections

How the curve score is built
78Teaching88 raw · 55th percentile of BC classes
+2Easiness adjustmenteasiness 83 · 44 raw workload · lighter than 72% of BC classes
80Curve scorethe teaching curve +2 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 72% of BC classes.

What the course score is made of
88BC evaluations43 records · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2022 – 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
51stMore challenging than 51% of BC classesranked against every one we hold
91BC — “Intellectually Challenging”43 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
28thMore work than 28% of BC classesranked against every one we hold
44BC — “Workload”43 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.

The board

24 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. 2 of the 24 rows carry a mark saying so.

RankInstructorCurveEasinessChallengeRMP overall
1Jeffry FowleyEnvironmental Studies8593 raw · 4 records81+1 to the score56th564 ratings · all classes
2Libby DimensteinEnvironmental Studies Provisional fewer records9698 raw · 1 record—80th—no page
3Benjamin SkillinEnvironmental Studies Provisional9597 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score41st—no page
4Fiona MaguireEnvironmental Studies Provisional9597 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score41st—no page
5Tyler WelshEnvironmental Studies Provisional9497 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score57th—no page
6Ethan BuschEnvironmental Studies Provisional9296 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score65th—no page
7Abigail LafontanEnvironmental Studies Provisional9195 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score30th—no page
8Haley RowlandsEnvironmental Studies Provisional9197 raw · 1 record68−2 to the score27th—no page
9Korinna GarfieldEnvironmental Studies Provisional8996 raw · 1 record68−2 to the score27th—no page
10Samantha PerlmanEnvironmental Studies Provisional8995 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score82nd—no page
11Jarrod KoesterEnvironmental Studies Provisional8894 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score30th—no page
12Christopher BervenEnvironmental Studies Provisional8794 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score58th—no page
13Edwin WardEnvironmental Studies Provisional8694 raw · 1 record—56th—no page
14Katherine MinoriniEnvironmental Studies Provisional8592 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score64th—no page
15Adam LubanEnvironmental Studies Provisional8492 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score42nd—no page
16Hannah JacksonEnvironmental Studies Provisional8492 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score36th—no page
17William BlanchetteEnvironmental Studies Provisional8391 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score64th—no page
18Zygmunt PlaterEnvironmental Studies7888 raw · 10 records81+1 to the score53rd—no page
19Donald FaganEnvironmental Studies Provisional fewer records8089 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score58th—no page
20Mogran BrooksEnvironmental Studies Provisional7990 raw · 1 record—60th—no page
21Tyler RoderickEnvironmental Studies Provisional7988 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score56th—no page
22Emy MetzgerEnvironmental Studies Provisional7686 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score36th—no page
23Kevin MurphyEnvironmental Studies Provisional7689 raw · 1 record68−2 to the score43rd—no page
24Michael TierneyEnvironmental Studies7181 raw · 8 records83+2 to the score50th—no page

All 24 instructors listed.

21 of 24 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 43 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

43 sections · newest first
InstructorTermSecInstrCourseWork
Michael TierneySpring 202601808740
Tyler RoderickSpring 202601888740
Ethan BuschSpring 202602969440
Michael TierneySpring 202602809440
Michael TierneySpring 202603769040
Michael TierneySpring 2026049273—
Mogran BrooksSpring 2026049073—
Michael TierneySpring 202501949540
Tyler WelshSpring 202501979540
Michael TierneySpring 202502605340
Michael TierneySpring 202503869560
Adam LubanSpring 202504928540
Michael TierneySpring 202504808540
Edwin WardSpring 2024019491—
Jeffry FowleySpring 2024019691—
Haley RowlandsSpring 202402979160
Jeffry FowleySpring 202402909160
Korinna GarfieldSpring 202402969160
Christopher BervenSpring 202403949140
Donald FaganSpring 202403899140
Jeffry FowleySpring 202403939140
Jeffry FowleySpring 202404918240
Samantha PerlmanSpring 202404958240
Benjamin SkillinSpring 202301979240
Fiona MaguireSpring 202301979240

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.