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SCWK 8857

Group Therapy for Children and Adolescents · 1 instructor on record · 6 sections

What the course score is made of

87BC evaluations6 records · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2022 – Summer 2025

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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

60thMore challenging than 60% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

92BC — “Intellectually Challenging”6 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

28thMore work than 28% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

44BC — “Workload”6 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.

Elective This course will prepare students to design and facilitate experiential skills-based groups with both children and adolescents. Building on first-year foundational content this course prepares students to learn how to facilitate skills-based group therapy with youth. Several guiding theories, including (Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing), will be integrated with multiple experiential activities as vehicles for the engagement in the interventions. Each guiding theory dominates a minimum of two weeks in the syllabus to ensure depth of learning and exploration of possibilities for theory into practice. The experiential activities will include music, adventure, bibliotherapy, art therapy, and technology to assist in the engagement of clients in the learning process and will be utilized throughout the course. Assignments challenge students to develop two innovative original experiential group sessions and demonstrate competence in facilitating both of their group sessions.

The only instructor on record

6 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Carolyn RomanoSocial Work	946 records	28th	60th

There is no ranking to read here: Carolyn Romano is the only instructor with evaluation records for SCWK 8857, so the number is a record, not a position.

Also taught by Carolyn Romano

4 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
SCWK 8855Clinical Practice with Children and Families: Assessment, Intervention, and Evidence-Based Practice	1853 records	77
SCWK 8872Advanced Clinical Interventions with Children, Youth, and Families	518 records	81
SCWK 8876Solution Focused Therapy	210 records	92
SCWK 8869Clinical Social Work Independent Study	11 record	100

Other SCWK classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
SCWK 8841Program Evaluation	2368 records	72
SCWK 7701The Social Welfare System	2966 records	72
SCWK 7722Psychosocial Pathology	1663 records	88
SCWK 7721Human Behavior and the Social Environment	1861 records	84
SCWK 7747Research Methods in Social Work Practice	1758 records	69
SCWK 7723Re-thinking Diversity: Systems of Oppression and Privilege	1755 records	85

The line

All 13 items · means across 6 records

The Professor4 items

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

9883rd pctl

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

9775th pctl

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

9779th pctl

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

9774th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9679th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9575th pctl

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

9565th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9153rd pctl

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

9677th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9783rd 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.

4428th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

9260th pctl

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

9462nd 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

6 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Carolyn Romano	Summer 2025	01	92	86	40
Carolyn Romano	Summer 2024	01	98	93	40
Carolyn Romano	Summer 2023	01	89	76	—
Carolyn Romano	Spring 2023	01	93	90	40
Carolyn Romano	Summer 2022	01	95	82	60
Carolyn Romano	Spring 2022	01	100	95	40

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.