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HIST 1027

Modern History I · 16 instructors on record · 22 sections

How the curve score is built

73Teaching84 raw · 36th percentile of BC classes

−2Easiness adjustmenteasiness 67 · 65 raw workload · lighter than 19% of BC classes

71Curve 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 19% of BC classes.

What the course score is made of

84BC evaluations22 records · weight ×1.0 · Summer 2022 – Summer 2025

—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

31stMore challenging than 31% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

87BC — “Intellectually Challenging”22 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

81stMore work than 81% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

65BC — “Workload”22 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.

This course covers several centuries of time and traces the political, social, economic, and cultural changes that created the modern world. Depending on the expertise of the instructor, different parts of the world may serve as focal points for examining the complex historical processes behind modern-day transnational relationships, values, and ideas. As part of the Core Curriculum, this course seeks to broaden students' intellectual horizons by exposing them to new places, periods, and perspectives.

The board

16 instructors · ranked on this class onlyCompare the top 3

Find an instructor among the 16Filters 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 16 rows carry a mark saying so.

Rank	Instructor	Curve	Easiness	Challenge	RMP overall
1	Kevin MarchHistory Provisional	97100 raw · 2 records	68−2 to the score	87th	—no page
2	Daniel CrownVisiting Assistant Professor · History Provisional	92100 raw · 1 record	49−7 to the score	17th	—no page
3	Alexander D'AliseraVisiting Assistant Professor · History Provisional	8392 raw · 2 records	—	—	—no page
4	Mia SwensonHistory Provisional fewer records	8496 raw · 1 record	58−5 to the score	40th	—no page
5	Alaurea HolderHistory Provisional	8392 raw · 1 record	—	52nd	—no page
6	Rachael YoungHistory Provisional	8393 raw · 1 record	68−2 to the score	2nd	1001 rating · all classes
7	Emily DupuisHistory Provisional	7990 raw · 1 record	—	48th	—no page
8	Abigail HillTeaching Assistant · History Provisional	7889 raw · 2 records	—	36th	—no page
9	Rachel BrodyHistory Provisional	7183 raw · 1 record	—	—	5613 ratings · all classes
10	Tiffany ThompsonHistory Provisional	7180 raw · 1 record	84+2 to the score	48th	—no page
11	Robin RadnerHistory Provisional	6673 raw · 1 record	84+2 to the score	2nd	—no page
12	Joshua TrueloveCommunication Provisional	6578 raw · 1 record	68−2 to the score	3rd	—no page
13	William StratfordHistory Provisional fewer records	6474 raw · 1 record	—	25th	—no page
14	Elspeth CurrieHistory Provisional	6885 raw · 2 records	58−5 to the score	48th	—no page
15	Avner GoldsteinTeaching Assistant · History Provisional	6784 raw · 2 records	58−5 to the score	12th	—no page
16	Khalil SawanTeaching Assistant · History Provisional	6780 raw · 2 records	68−2 to the score	100th	—no page

All 16 instructors listed.

16 of 16 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 22 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

22 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Robin Radner	Summer 2025	01	73	80	40
Emily Dupuis	Summer 2025	02	90	80	—
Elspeth Currie	Summer 2025	03	84	76	—
Alaurea Holder	Summer 2025	05	92	88	—
Mia Swenson	Summer 2025	06	96	93	80
Alexander D'Alisera	Summer 2024	01	89	80	—
Avner Goldstein	Summer 2024	02	78	80	80
Elspeth Currie	Summer 2024	03	86	82	80
Khalil Sawan	Summer 2024	04	88	85	60
William Stratford	Summer 2024	05	74	77	—
Abigail Hill	Summer 2024	06	88	72	—
Alexander D'Alisera	Summer 2023	01	95	95	—
Rachel Brody	Summer 2023	02	83	78	—
Avner Goldstein	Summer 2023	03	90	96	—
Khalil Sawan	Summer 2023	04	73	68	—
Abigail Hill	Summer 2023	05	90	91	—
Kevin March	Summer 2022	01	100	100	80
Daniel Crown	Summer 2022	02	100	88	100
Kevin March	Summer 2022	03	100	93	40
Tiffany Thompson	Summer 2022	04	80	80	40
Joshua Truelove	Summer 2022	05	78	75	60
Rachael Young	Summer 2022	06	93	80	60

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.