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HIST 1012

Atlantic Worlds II: Race, Religion, and the Struggle for Democracy · 11 instructors on record · 34 sections

How the curve score is built

65Teaching75 raw · 13th percentile of BC classes

+5Easiness adjustmenteasiness 97 · 38 raw workload · lighter than 97% of BC classes

70Curve scorethe teaching curve +5 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 97% of BC classes.

What the course score is made of

75BC evaluations34 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – 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

17thMore challenging than 17% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

84BC — “Intellectually Challenging”34 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

3rdMore work than 3% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

38BC — “Workload”34 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.

Formerly Modern Atlantic Worlds This course is a continuation of Atlantic Worlds I, but with new thematic impulses. The course looks at: 1.) The Enlightenment and its challenges to religion; 2.) The rise of the teleological ideology of Marxism/Leninism and its political properties in relation to religion, race, and the state; 3.) European colonial expansionism and its implementation in areas of the world where democratic values were becoming skewed over time; 4.) racial thinking and the role of the churches in the 20th century as eugenic movements swept through various sections of the democracies and as totalitarianism rose in Europe. Business history, Latin American history, African history, Jesuit history, and even the history of Jazz all play a role in this class on the ever-expanding Atlantic World!

The board

11 instructors · ranked on this class onlyCompare the top 3

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 11 rows carry a mark saying so.

Rank	Instructor	Curve	Easiness	Challenge	RMP overall
1	Daniel CrownVisiting Assistant Professor · History	8792 raw · 3 records	97+5 to the score	17th	—no page
2	Meghan McCoyHistory	8693 raw · 3 records	84+2 to the score	14th	—no page
3	Laura ClerxVisiting Assistant Professor · History	8391 raw · 3 records	84+2 to the score	44th	—no page
4	Brianna ReisbeckHistory	7884 raw · 3 records	97+5 to the score	10th	—no page
5	Mia MichaelHistory	7786 raw · 3 records	84+2 to the score	24th	—no page
6	Robin RadnerHistory	7581 raw · 3 records	99+6 to the score	20th	—no page
7	William StratfordHistory Provisional	7282 raw · 2 records	84+2 to the score	4th	—no page
8	Avner GoldsteinTeaching Assistant · History	7282 raw · 3 records	84+2 to the score	13th	—no page
9	Charles GallagherHistory Provisional fewer records	6576 raw · 2 records	78±0 to the score	17th	5215 ratings · all classes
10	Dominic FerraraHistory fewer records	6776 raw · 3 records	84+2 to the score	19th	—no page
11	Daniel RuizHistory	6877 raw · 6 records	84+2 to the score	18th	—no page

2 of 11 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 34 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

34 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Daniel Ruiz	Fall 2023	02	70	78	40
Daniel Ruiz	Fall 2023	04	58	69	40
Meghan McCoy	Fall 2023	05	97	83	—
William Stratford	Fall 2023	06	82	75	40
Meghan McCoy	Fall 2023	07	98	84	40
William Stratford	Fall 2023	08	81	72	40
Dominic Ferrara	Fall 2023	09	70	64	40
Robin Radner	Fall 2023	10	80	85	40
Daniel Ruiz	Fall 2023	11	85	88	—
Robin Radner	Fall 2023	12	82	84	20
Meghan McCoy	Fall 2023	13	85	83	—
Robin Radner	Fall 2023	14	80	80	20
Dominic Ferrara	Fall 2023	15	75	78	40
Dominic Ferrara	Fall 2023	16	83	80	—
Charles Gallagher	Spring 2023	01	70	61	40
Daniel Ruiz	Spring 2023	02	82	74	40
Daniel Ruiz	Spring 2023	03	82	70	40
Daniel Crown	Spring 2023	04	93	69	40
Brianna Reisbeck	Spring 2023	05	82	71	40
Daniel Ruiz	Spring 2023	06	86	76	40
Brianna Reisbeck	Spring 2023	07	84	69	40
Brianna Reisbeck	Spring 2023	08	86	73	20
Avner Goldstein	Spring 2023	09	87	76	40
Daniel Crown	Spring 2023	10	96	77	40
Daniel Crown	Spring 2023	11	87	71	20

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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.