ICSP 8101
Masters Interim Study · 2 instructors on record · 2 sections
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.
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.
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.
Required for Master's candidates who have completed all course requirements but have not taken comprehensive examinations. Also for Master's students (only) who have taken up to eight credits required by the Masters but have not yet finished writing their thesis. Interim Study requires a commitment of at least 20 hours per week working on the thesis.
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.
| Rank | Instructor | Curve | Easiness | Challenge | RMP overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Ali BanuaziziResearch Professor · Political Science Provisional | —— raw · 1 record | — | — | —no page |
| — | Kathleen BaileyProfessor of the Practice · Political Science Provisional | —— raw · 1 record | — | — | 8618 ratings · all classes |
2 of 2 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. Neither workload nor challenge was reported in any record for this class, so both columns are dashes — that is missing data, not a zero.
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 2 recordsNone of the evaluation questions were reported for these records.
Game log
2 sections · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Bailey | Spring 2026 | 01 | — | — | — |
| Ali Banuazizi | Spring 2026 | 02 | — | — | — |
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.