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 · NURS · CSON

NURS 2121

Nursing Health Assessment Across the Lifespan Clinical Laboratory · 19 instructors on record · 46 sections

How the curve score is built
78Teaching88 raw · 53rd percentile of BC classes
+1Easiness adjustmenteasiness 82 · 49 raw workload · lighter than 67% of BC classes
79Curve scorethe teaching curve +1 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 67% of BC classes.

What the course score is made of
88BC evaluations46 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – Fall 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
51stMore challenging than 51% of BC classesranked against every one we hold
91BC — “Intellectually Challenging”46 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
33rdMore work than 33% of BC classesranked against every one we hold
49BC — “Workload”46 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 provides campus and community laboratory experiences in applying the theoretical concepts explored in NU 120. The focus is on systematic assessment of individual health status associated with maturational changes and influenced by culture and environment. The clinical reasoning framework and communication theory direct the development of nursing assessment skills. There will be four hours of Simulation Laboratory, one hour of seminar, and required media/BB Vista preparation each week.

The board

19 instructors · ranked on this class onlyCompare the top 3
Filters 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. 6 of the 19 rows carry a mark saying so.

RankInstructorCurveEasinessChallengeRMP overall
1Wonkyung JungNursing9396 raw · 3 records84+2 to the score37th—no page
2Alison MarshallNursing9197 raw · 3 records76±0 to the score74th—no page
3Kathleen MansfieldNursing Provisional fewer records99100 raw · 2 records78±0 to the score61st—no page
4Arlene McGuaneNursing Provisional9095 raw · 2 records84+2 to the score31st—no page
5Eileen SullivanNursing8291 raw · 6 records82+1 to the score66th—no page
6Laura WhiteNursing Provisional fewer records8795 raw · 2 records78±0 to the score16th—no page
7Melissa CapotostoNursing Provisional fewer records9798 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score37th1001 rating · all classes
8Kellie LapierreNursing Provisional9096 raw · 1 record———no page
9Luanne NugentNursing8193 raw · 3 records68−2 to the score69th—no page
10Bethany CrokeNursing Provisional fewer records8694 raw · 1 record———no page
11Christopher CurtisNursing Provisional8393 raw · 1 record———no page
12Eunji ChoNursing7988 raw · 3 records84+2 to the score34th—no page
13Donna CullinanNursing Provisional fewer records8192 raw · 1 record68−2 to the score72nd—no page
14Soojung AhnNursing Provisional7991 raw · 1 record68−2 to the score10th—no page
15Sherri St PierreNursing Provisional7887 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score31st—no page
16Thamarah CrevecoeurNursing Provisional7588 raw · 2 records68−2 to the score39th—no page
17Stewart BondNursing7183 raw · 3 records76±0 to the score76th1001 rating · all classes
18Sabianca DelvaNursing Provisional fewer records6879 raw · 2 records78±0 to the score63rd—no page
19Richard RossNursing7384 raw · 8 records81+1 to the score44th—no page

All 19 instructors listed.

12 of 19 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 46 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

46 sections · newest first
InstructorTermSecInstrCourseWork
Laura WhiteFall 202501948760
Soojung AhnFall 202501918760
Sabianca DelvaFall 202502868260
Thamarah CrevecoeurFall 202502918260
Melissa CapotostoFall 202503988240
Wonkyung JungFall 202503988240
Arlene McGuaneFall 202504948840
Eunji ChoFall 202504928840
Richard RossFall 202505937340
Wonkyung JungFall 202505967340
Eunji ChoFall 202401908040
Sherri St PierreFall 202401878040
Arlene McGuaneFall 202402968940
Laura WhiteFall 202402958940
Alison MarshallFall 202403959060
Donna CullinanFall 202403929060
Alison MarshallFall 202404999540
Wonkyung JungFall 202404969540
Richard RossFall 202405968640
Eunji ChoFall 2023018285—
Christopher CurtisFall 2023029389—
Kellie LapierreFall 2023029689—
Eileen SullivanFall 2023039490—
Thamarah CrevecoeurFall 2023038590—
Bethany CrokeFall 2023049489—

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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.