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PSYC 6591

Professional Development Workshop and Seminar · 1 instructor on record · 5 sections

What the course score is made of

63BC evaluations5 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – Fall 2025

—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

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

54BC — “Intellectually Challenging”5 records · raw score out of 100

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

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

20BC — “Workload”5 records · 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.

Graduate students meet for a seminar on our department's areas of research and to discuss issues related to professional development in academic and non-academic settings.

The only instructor on record

5 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Scott SlotnickProfessor · Psychology and Neuroscience	765 records	0th	0th

There is no ranking to read here: Scott Slotnick is the only instructor with evaluation records for PSYC 6591, so the number is a record, not a position.

Also taught by Scott Slotnick

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
PSYC 6692Professional Development Workshop II	15 records	67
PSYC 3371Cognitive Neuroscience	24 records	85
PSYC 6501Graduate Programming Lab	34 records	83
PSYC 2279Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience	11 record	87
PSYC 5572Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory	11 record	88
PSYC 5576Methods in Human Brain Mapping	11 record	92

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 5 records

The Professor4 items

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

838th pctl

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

8921st pctl

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

8514th pctl

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

837th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

703rd pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

8212th pctl

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

741st pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

753rd pctl

Gives Feedback PromptlyI received feedback on my work in a timely manner.

8421st pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

8933rd 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

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

540th pctl

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

631st 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.

Game log

5 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Scott Slotnick	Fall 2025	01	80	60	20
Scott Slotnick	Fall 2024	01	77	60	20
Scott Slotnick	Fall 2023	01	83	74	—
Scott Slotnick	Fall 2022	01	72	72	20
Scott Slotnick	Fall 2021	01	70	50	—

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.