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SPAN 1016

Elementary Spanish II · 26 instructors on record · 95 sections

How the curve score is built

66Teaching76 raw · 15th percentile of BC classes

+1Easiness adjustmenteasiness 79 · 53 raw workload · lighter than 59% of BC classes

67Curve 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 59% of BC classes.

What the course score is made of

76BC evaluations95 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – 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

36thMore challenging than 36% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

88BC — “Intellectually Challenging”95 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

41stMore work than 41% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

53BC — “Workload”95 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.

Conducted in Spanish. Elementary Spanish II is the second course in the first-year sequence. It continues to provide a strong foundation in speaking, listening comprehension, reading and writing as well as exploring the products, practices and perspectives that are unique to Hispanic cultures. This course follows a communicative approach, which springs from the idea that languages are best learned when student activities involve critical thinking about real-world information. Students will interact in Spanish with the instructor, classmates and native speakers. By the end of this course, students should be able to successfully handle a significant number of communicative and writing tasks in different time frames in Spanish.

The board

26 instructors · ranked on this class onlyCompare the top 3

Find an instructor among the 26Filters 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. 3 of the 26 rows carry a mark saying so.

Rank	Instructor	Curve	Easiness	Challenge	RMP overall
1	Aina Marti GerRomance Languages and Literatures	8996 raw · 8 records	76±0 to the score	53rd	—no page
2	Erin TraskRomance Languages and Literatures fewer records	9699 raw · 4 records	75±0 to the score	65th	—no page
3	Isabel ArayaRomance Languages and Literatures Provisional	9698 raw · 2 records	84+2 to the score	79th	—no page
4	Yuliana Ramos OrtaRomance Languages and Literatures Provisional	9498 raw · 2 records	68−2 to the score	48th	1001 rating · all classes
5	Kassandra RamirezRomance Languages and Literatures Provisional	9196 raw · 2 records	78±0 to the score	29th	702 ratings · all classes
6	Kylie MinnitiRomance Languages and Literatures Provisional	9096 raw · 2 records	78±0 to the score	70th	—no page
7	Victor Chacon CabreraRomance Languages and Literatures Provisional	9096 raw · 2 records	78±0 to the score	51st	—no page
8	Ethan HillRomance Languages and Literatures	8393 raw · 4 records	78±0 to the score	24th	—no page
9	Naomi Sanabria AldanaRomance Languages and Literatures Provisional fewer records	8694 raw · 2 records	—	—	1004 ratings · all classes
10	Rodrigo TorrellioRomance Languages and Literatures Provisional	8695 raw · 2 records	68−2 to the score	53rd	—no page
11	Monika StantchevaRomance Languages and Literatures	8091 raw · 6 records	75±0 to the score	34th	—no page
12	Can ZhuRomance Languages and Literatures	8090 raw · 4 records	82+1 to the score	60th	—no page
13	Wendy Rodriguez ZunigaRomance Languages and Literatures	7990 raw · 7 records	78±0 to the score	57th	—no page
14	Sehyun MoonRomance Languages and Literatures	7888 raw · 4 records	82+1 to the score	40th	946 ratings · all classes
15	Viktoryia LiashchynskayaRomance Languages and Literatures	7788 raw · 4 records	82+1 to the score	40th	1001 rating · all classes
16	Olivia BegginsVisiting Assistant Professor of the Practice, Spanish Language Program · Romance Languages and Literatures Provisional	7685 raw · 1 record	84+2 to the score	29th	1002 ratings · all classes
17	Nicoletta Lembo-VolpeRomance Languages and Literatures Provisional	7488 raw · 2 records	68−2 to the score	58th	—no page
18	Iris Fitzsimmons ChristensenRomance Languages and Literatures	7485 raw · 4 records	75±0 to the score	40th	807 ratings · all classes
19	Maria GonzalezRomance Languages and Literatures	7486 raw · 4 records	78±0 to the score	31st	—no page
20	Silvana FalconiProfessor of the Practice in Hispanic Studies · Romance Languages and Literatures	7288 raw · 4 records	58−5 to the score	31st	8010 ratings · all classes
21	Alicia LowdenRomance Languages and Literatures Provisional fewer records	6881 raw · 2 records	68−2 to the score	24th	—no page
22	Marcel PonsRomance Languages and Literatures	7184 raw · 4 records	68−2 to the score	9th	845 ratings · all classes
23	Valerie Sanabria AldanaRomance Languages and Literatures	7180 raw · 4 records	84+2 to the score	11th	—no page
24	Robert MunrayosRomance Languages and Literatures	7183 raw · 6 records	75±0 to the score	6th	—no page
25	Pia CuneoRomance Languages and Literatures	6780 raw · 3 records	68−2 to the score	34th	804 ratings · all classes
26	Paola Heredia AlfaroRomance Languages and Literatures	5865 raw · 6 records	77±0 to the score	17th	—no page

All 26 instructors listed.

10 of 26 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 95 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

95 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Isabel Araya	Spring 2026	01	95	70	40
Isabel Araya	Spring 2026	02	100	82	40
Can Zhu	Spring 2026	03	98	82	60
Rodrigo Torrellio	Spring 2026	04	96	67	60
Rodrigo Torrellio	Spring 2026	05	94	71	—
Can Zhu	Spring 2026	06	87	82	40
Kylie Minniti	Spring 2026	07	96	88	40
Kylie Minniti	Spring 2026	08	97	73	60
Paola Heredia Alfaro	Spring 2026	09	50	50	—
Wendy Rodriguez Zuniga	Spring 2026	10	83	72	—
Paola Heredia Alfaro	Spring 2026	11	100	90	40
Wendy Rodriguez Zuniga	Fall 2025	01	93	86	40
Wendy Rodriguez Zuniga	Fall 2025	02	91	85	60
Aina Marti Ger	Fall 2025	03	98	83	40
Wendy Rodriguez Zuniga	Fall 2025	04	91	76	40
Aina Marti Ger	Fall 2025	05	96	87	60
Paola Heredia Alfaro	Fall 2025	06	70	60	60
Olivia Beggins	Fall 2025	07	85	77	40
Paola Heredia Alfaro	Fall 2025	08	57	52	60
Erin Trask	Fall 2025	09	100	89	60
Victor Chacon Cabrera	Fall 2025	10	98	73	60
Erin Trask	Fall 2025	11	100	73	60
Victor Chacon Cabrera	Fall 2025	12	94	72	40
Silvana Falconi	Summer 2025	01	96	73	60
Nicoletta Lembo-Volpe	Spring 2025	01	90	78	60

Showing the first 25.

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.