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SLAV 5163

Nabokov: Seminar · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of

94BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2023

—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

84thMore challenging than 84% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

96BC — “Intellectually Challenging”1 record · 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

93rdMore work than 93% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

80BC — “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.

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Maxim ShrayerSlavic & Eastern Languages and Literatures Provisional	961 record	93rd	84th	1005 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Maxim Shrayer is the only instructor with evaluation records for SLAV 5163, 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 Maxim Shrayer

5 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
SLAV 2162Classics of Russian Literature (in Translation)	25 records	90
SLAV 2173Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (in Translation)	25 records	88
SLAV 6060Holocaust Literature: History, Memory, Legacy	13 records	85
LING 4327The Art and Craft of Literary Translation	11 record	100
SLAV 2179Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (in translation)	11 record	94

Other SLAV classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
SLAV 1123Elementary Russian Practicum	227 records	90
SLAV 1121Elementary Russian I	26 records	89
SLAV 1122Elementary Russian II	26 records	86
SLAV 2122Intermediate Russian II	16 records	92
SLAV 2121Intermediate Russian I	15 records	85
SLAV 2162Classics of Russian Literature (in Translation)	25 records	90

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.

9669th pctl

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

100100th pctl

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

9670th pctl

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

100100th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9889th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9466th pctl

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

9245th pctl

Assignments & Feedback2 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9471st pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9887th 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.

8093rd pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

9684th pctl

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

9887th 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. 1 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
Maxim Shrayer	Spring 2023	01	96	94	80

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.