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PSYC 6580

Behavioral Neuroscience Scientific Development · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of

80BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2026

—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute

—RateMyProfessorsno ratings — does not contribute

That is the class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it. Who taught it, and how each of them scored, is the board below — that is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between.

What the challenge rank is made of

—BC — “Intellectually Challenging”1 record — does not contribute

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

0thMore work than 0% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

20BC — “Workload”1 record · raw score out of 100

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.

Behavioral Neuroscience Scientific Development (BNSD) is a graduate-level workshop designed to support the scientific growth of students in the Behavioral Neuroscience program. Developed by Drs. Michael McDannald, Caroline Smith, Gorica Petrovich, and John Christianson, BNSD provides a collaborative space for students to receive feedback on their research at any stage. Meetings include brainstorming ideas, designing experiments, interpreting results, and practicing presentations. Each student presents eight times over five years, with meetings tailored to their current needs. The workshop fosters constructive dialogue among faculty, postdocs, and research staff, with a focus on graduate student development.

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Michael McdannaldProfessor · Psychology and Neuroscience Provisional	1001 record	0th	—	849 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Michael Mcdannald is the only instructor with evaluation records for PSYC 6580, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional. The RateMyProfessors figure is their overall score across everything they teach, not their score in this class.

Also taught by Michael Mcdannald

5 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
PSYC 2285Behavioral Neuroscience	313 records	86
PSYC 2085Gateway Discussion for Behavioral Neuroscience	22 records	93
PSYC 3390Neurobiology of Psychiatric Disorders	12 records	89
PSYC 4487Cellular Basis of Motivation	11 record	93
PSYC 5587Cellular Perspectives on Motivated Behavior	11 record	95

Other PSYC classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
PSYC 1120Introduction to Behavioral Statistics and Research I	646 records	68
PSYC 1110Brain, Mind, & Behavior	628 records	76
PSYC 1111Self, Mind, & Society	628 records	83
PSYC 2234Introduction to Psychopathology	414 records	91
PSYC 2260Child Developmental Psychology	613 records	77
PSYC 2285Behavioral Neuroscience	313 records	86

The line

All 13 items · means across 1 record

The Professor4 items

Clearly Explains MaterialThe instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.

806th pctl

Available Outside of ClassThe instructor was available for help outside of class.

804th pctl

Brings Out Your Best WorkThe instructor motivated me to do my best work.

806th pctl

Sparked My InterestThe course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.

804th pctl

The Course2 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

8011th pctl

Useful Beyond the CourseWhat I learned is applicable beyond this course.

805th pctl

Workload, difficulty & attendanceNot ratings

WorkloadHow 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.

200th pctl

Attendance MattersAttending class was necessary to do well in this course.

8011th pctl

Bar length is the rank against every comparable record we hold, not the raw score: BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so a raw-scale bar would be nearly full on every row and would tell you nothing. 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. 5 of 13 questions were not reported and are left out rather than shown as zero.

Game log

1 section · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Michael Mcdannald	Spring 2026	01	100	80	20

How to read this boardInstructors 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.