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SCWK 8897

Planning for Health and Mental Health Services · 1 instructor on record · 5 sections

What the course score is made of

84BC 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

27thMore challenging than 27% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

86BC — “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

29thMore work than 29% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

45BC — “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.

Required of Macro students in Health and Mental Health Field-of-Practice; elective for others. A course designed to introduce program planning, strategic planning, proposal writing, and state-of-the-art service delivery models. Significant emphasis will be placed on developing practical skills in the area of proposal development and program design through applying class material to practice through a major planning assignment. Skills to analyze critical issues in mental health and health care delivery, including system design and financing, are emphasized. Critical issues of access to health care, the crisis in health care, and managed care will be discussed and analyzed. Models of service delivery will be critically reviewed.

The only instructor on record

5 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Matthew PecoraroSocial Work	915 records	29th	27th

There is no ranking to read here: Matthew Pecoraro is the only instructor with evaluation records for SCWK 8897, so the number is a record, not a position.

Also taught by Matthew Pecoraro

2 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
SCWK 7701The Social Welfare System	2966 records	72
SCWK 8805Policy Issues in Family and Children's Services	923 records	75

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 5 records

The Professor4 items

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

9670th pctl

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

9457th pctl

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

9559th pctl

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

9666th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9570th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9570th pctl

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

9457th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9149th pctl

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

9358th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9358th 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.

4529th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

8627th pctl

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

9043rd 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
Matthew Pecoraro	Fall 2025	01	100	89	40
Matthew Pecoraro	Fall 2024	01	90	83	60
Matthew Pecoraro	Fall 2023	01	83	80	—
Matthew Pecoraro	Fall 2022	01	88	80	40
Matthew Pecoraro	Fall 2021	01	94	89	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.