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 9901

Doctoral Comprehensives · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of
—BC evaluations1 record — does not contribute
—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
100thMore work than 100% of BC classesranked against every one we hold
100BC — “Workload”1 record · 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 is for students who have not yet passed the Doctoral Comprehensive but prefer not to assume the status of a non-matriculating student for the one or two semesters used for preparation for the comprehensive.

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record
InstructorCurveEasinessChallenge
Susan Kelly-WeederNursing Provisional—— raw · 1 record——

There is no ranking to read here: Susan Kelly-Weeder is the only instructor with evaluation records for NURS 9901, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional.

Also taught by Susan Kelly-Weeder

5 other classes
ClassInstructorsCourse score
NURS 9906DNP Project Seminar 21133 records71
NURS 9908DNP Project Seminar 31023 records71
NURS 9827Family Primary Care Advanced Practice Nursing II515 records88
NURS 9814Bridge to Primary Care Advanced Practice Nursing711 records76
NURS 9815Advanced Practice Nursing Role59 records78

Other NURS classes

All of them
ClassInstructorsCourse score
NURS 1010Professional Development Seminar174 records84
NURS 2231Adult Health Nursing I Clinical Laboratory1372 records79
NURS 2121Nursing Health Assessment Across the Lifespan Clinical Laboratory1946 records88
NURS 9906DNP Project Seminar 21133 records71
NURS 9904DNP Project Seminar 11130 records74
NURS 4260Population Health Nursing Theory524 records68

The line

All 13 items · means across 1 record
Course1
Workload & Challengenot ratings

Bars are ranks, not raw scores. Nothing here is graded good or bad. 11 of 13 questions were not reported and are left out rather than shown as zero.

What each item asks
Useful Later
What I learned is applicable beyond this course.
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.
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

1 section · newest first
InstructorTermSecInstrCourseWork
Susan Kelly-WeederSpring 202201——100
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.