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 · LREN · LSOE

LREN 7000

Readings and Research in Curriculum and Instruction · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

How the curve score is built
64Teaching73 raw · 11th percentile of BC classes
±0Easiness adjustmentworkload not reported — takes nothing off the score
64Curve 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
73BC 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
InstructorCurveEasinessChallenge
Brian SmithHonorable David S. Nelson Chair; Associate Dean for Research · Computer Science Provisional6980 raw · 1 record——

There is no ranking to read here: Brian Smith is the only instructor with evaluation records for LREN 7000, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional.

Also taught by Brian Smith

5 other classes
ClassInstructorsCourse score
LREN 7111Design Studio 126 records72
LREN 7113Design Studio 335 records71
LREN 7102Foundations of Learning Technologies23 records70
MESA 8410Introduction to Human-Centered Data Science23 records79
FORM 7320Experience Design11 record52

Other LREN classes

All of them
ClassInstructorsCourse score
LREN 7111Design Studio 126 records72
LREN 7112Design Studio 226 records75
LREN 7113Design Studio 335 records71
LREN 7101Introduction to Learning Engineering13 records77
LREN 7102Foundations of Learning Technologies23 records70
LREN 7114Designing Online and Hybrid Learning Experiences23 records72

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
Brian SmithSummer 2023018073—
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.