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 2258

Environmental Law and Policy in the United States and Europe · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

How the curve score is built
62Teaching71 raw · 8th percentile of BC classes
±0Easiness adjustmentworkload not reported — takes nothing off the score
62Curve 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
71BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Summer 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
InstructorCurveEasinessChallengeRMP overall
Jeffry FowleyEnvironmental Studies Provisional6474 raw · 1 record——564 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Jeffry Fowley is the only instructor with evaluation records for ENVS 2258, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional. The RateMyProfessors figure is their overall score across everything they teach, not their score in this class.

Also taught by Jeffry Fowley

4 other classes
ClassInstructorsCourse score
ENVS 2256Environmental Law and Policy2443 records88
LAWS 4450Environmental Law: Teaching Seminar37 records92
ENVS 3356Seminar in Environmental Law15 records83
LAWS 7482Law of Toxic Substances13 records87

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 1 record

Nothing reported

None of the evaluation questions were reported for these records.

Game log

1 section · newest first
InstructorTermSecInstrCourseWork
Jeffry FowleySummer 2023017471—
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.