Carney Curve

Boston College course evaluations · Fall 2021 through Spring 2026, ranked class by class

Top of the board1.PRTO 3300982.UNAS 3348903.MUSP 1670944.COMM 1060925.MUSP 1660926.ECON 9902887.BSLW 2299918.PHIL 4932939.COMM 19029010.UGMG 10109311.MUSP 26009912.TMPS 803495
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 · SCWK · SSW

SCWK 8856

Clinical Practice with Adults: Assessment, Intervention, and Evidence-Based Practice · 22 instructors on record · 54 sections

How the curve score is built
68Teaching79 raw · 20th percentile of BC classes
+1Easiness adjustmenteasiness 82 · 48 raw workload · lighter than 67% of BC classes
69Curve 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
79BC evaluations54 records · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2022 – Spring 2026
—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
25thMore challenging than 25% of BC classesranked against every one we hold
86BC — “Intellectually Challenging”54 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
48BC — “Workload”54 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.

Required of Clinical Social Work students. An advanced course focusing on effective interventions with common adult psychosocial disorders. Intervention methods, drawn from current practice evaluation literature, encompass a contemporary eclectic model incorporating cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic and other relational thinking, practice wisdom, and empirical evidence in determining the most suitable intervention. Special attention is given to recognition of individual and demographic factors influencing clients, as well as their expectations and input concerning the selective invention. Class discussion draws on students' reading and field experience. Through the use of case studies, the course addresses strategies for practice evaluation.

The board

22 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. 5 of the 22 rows carry a mark saying so.

RankInstructorCurveEasinessChallengeRMP overall
1Suming SullivanSocial Work9297 raw · 3 records78±0 to the score69th—no page
2Zoe SilverSocial Work9296 raw · 3 records81+1 to the score70th—no page
3Robin WarshSocial Work8894 raw · 4 records82+1 to the score43rd—no page
4Jennifer PughSocial Work8695 raw · 5 records68−2 to the score62nd—no page
5Emily PilowaSocial Work Provisional fewer records8794 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score40th—no page
6Joshua CohenSocial Work7989 raw · 10 records82+1 to the score36th—no page
7Carol Mann-CohenSocial Work fewer records8091 raw · 4 records76±0 to the score25th—no page
8Yelana LoiselleSocial Work8091 raw · 4 records76±0 to the score49th—no page
9Sarah LaughlinSocial Work Provisional fewer records8394 raw · 1 record68−2 to the score18th—no page
10Danielle MetzgerSocial Work Provisional8092 raw · 1 record68−2 to the score12th—no page
11Erin LemireSocial Work Provisional7988 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score57th—no page
12Ginnelle VasquezSocial Work Provisional7686 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score9th—no page
13Brooke HuminskiSocial Work Provisional7687 raw · 2 records78±0 to the score9th—no page
14Binh NguyenSocial Work Provisional7282 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score15th—no page
15Ramona Bullock-JohnsonSocial Work Provisional6877 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score12th—no page
16Erin SchaeferSocial Work Provisional6679 raw · 1 record68−2 to the score22nd—no page
17Takia MyersSocial Work Provisional5553 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score2nd—no page
18Osato EgonmwanSocial Work Provisional fewer records5151 raw · 1 record84+2 to the score1st—no page
19Caitlin AubuchonSocial Work Provisional6780 raw · 2 records68−2 to the score21st—no page
20Kerry MitchellSocial Work Provisional fewer records6677 raw · 2 records78±0 to the score11th801 rating · all classes
21Thomas HealeySocial Work6877 raw · 3 records84+2 to the score5th—no page
22Karen BullockSocial Work Provisional6166 raw · 2 records84+2 to the score1st602 ratings · all classes

All 22 instructors listed.

14 of 22 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 54 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

54 sections · newest first
InstructorTermSecInstrCourseWork
Zoe SilverSpring 202601978940
Takia MyersSpring 202603535840
Joshua CohenSpring 202604938840
Joshua CohenSpring 202605948640
Suming SullivanSpring 2026069790—
Ginnelle VasquezSpring 202607868440
Thomas HealeySpring 202608666540
Ramona Bullock-JohnsonSpring 202609777440
Sarah LaughlinSpring 202610947960
Erin LemireSpring 202611888540
Yelana LoiselleSpring 202612968540
Binh NguyenSummer 202501827340
Zoe SilverSpring 202501999640
Joshua CohenSpring 202503898260
Joshua CohenSpring 202504939240
Suming SullivanSpring 202505959340
Suming SullivanSpring 202506989460
Thomas HealeySpring 202507797640
Robin WarshSpring 202509948860
Yelana LoiselleSpring 202510918660
Yelana LoiselleSummer 2024017675—
Jennifer PughSpring 202401968960
Karen BullockSpring 202402574540
Jennifer PughSpring 202403878060
Joshua CohenSpring 2024048580—

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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.