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SOCY 3255

Community Advocacy and Research Engagement · 1 instructor on record · 4 sections

What the course score is made of

80BC evaluations4 records · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2022 – Spring 2025

—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute

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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

11thMore challenging than 11% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

82BC — “Intellectually Challenging”4 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

43rdMore work than 43% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

53BC — “Workload”4 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.

The only instructor on record

4 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Thomas AbowdSociology	814 records	43rd	11th

There is no ranking to read here: Thomas Abowd is the only instructor with evaluation records for SOCY 3255, so the number is a record, not a position.

Also taught by Thomas Abowd

1 other class

Class	Instructors	Course score
SOCY 3254Community Advocacy and Research Engagement	13 records	86

Other SOCY classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
SOCY 1001Introductory Sociology	2657 records	82
SOCY 2210Research Methods	723 records	79
SOCY 1030Deviance and Social Control	213 records	74
SOCY 2215Social Theory	313 records	76
SOCY 2200Statistics	311 records	74
SOCY 1501Global Implications of Climate Change	310 records	78

The line

All 13 items · means across 4 records

The Professor4 items

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

816th pctl

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

848th pctl

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

8926th pctl

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

8611th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

8113th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

8725th pctl

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

9458th 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.

8729th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

8519th 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.

5343rd pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

8211th pctl

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

712nd 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

4 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Thomas Abowd	Spring 2025	01	95	80	40
Thomas Abowd	Spring 2024	01	93	97	60
Thomas Abowd	Spring 2023	01	80	85	60
Thomas Abowd	Spring 2022	01	56	60	—

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.