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SPAN 1116

Intermediate Spanish II · 22 instructors on record · 163 sections

How the curve score is built

63Teaching72 raw · 9th percentile of BC classes

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

64Curve 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

72BC evaluations163 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

39thMore challenging than 39% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

89BC — “Intellectually Challenging”163 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”163 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. Intermediate Spanish II is the second course in the second-year sequence with a continued emphasis on the four skills and on critical thinking. This course focuses on vocabulary building, the examination of some of the finer grammar points, and moving students towards a more complex level of comprehension and expression. Students will continue to work with short literary texts, cultural readings and audiovisual materials. Students will interact in Spanish with the instructor, classmates and native speakers. By the end of this course, students should be able to successfully discuss in Spanish topics of importance to the twenty-first century, with emphasis on the development of critical thinking skills in addition to the refinement of the four basic language skills. After successful completion of this course, the foreign language requirement will be fulfilled for schools that require a 4th-semester proficiency.

The board

22 instructors · ranked on this class onlyCompare the top 3

Find an instructor among the 22Filters 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. 8 of the 22 rows carry a mark saying so.

Rank	Instructor	Curve	Easiness	Challenge	RMP overall
1	Alberto Criado SaezRomance Languages and Literatures	9196 raw · 16 records	76±0 to the score	40th	1002 ratings · all classes
2	Yuliana Ramos OrtaRomance Languages and Literatures fewer records	9397 raw · 7 records	77±0 to the score	50th	1001 rating · all classes
3	Barbara SargentRomance Languages and Literatures	8795 raw · 12 records	75±0 to the score	42nd	1007 ratings · all classes
4	Teresa Gelardo-RodriguezRomance Languages and Literatures fewer records	9096 raw · 5 records	75±0 to the score	17th	—no page
5	Jose Dominicci BuzoRomance Languages and Literatures	8694 raw · 6 records	81+1 to the score	32nd	743 ratings · all classes
6	Edgardo TormosRomance Languages and Literatures Provisional fewer records	9197 raw · 2 records	78±0 to the score	6th	—no page
7	Jorge Sanchez RiveraRomance Languages and Literatures	8392 raw · 6 records	82+1 to the score	29th	1002 ratings · all classes
8	Genoveva CastroRomance Languages and Literatures Provisional fewer records	8795 raw · 2 records	68−2 to the score	37th	—no page
9	Silvana FalconiProfessor of the Practice in Hispanic Studies · Romance Languages and Literatures	8090 raw · 16 records	79+1 to the score	55th	8010 ratings · all classes
10	Daniel CuencaRomance Languages and Literatures Provisional fewer records	92100 raw · 1 record	49−7 to the score	100th	—no page
11	Mikal De La Mata CruzRomance Languages and Literatures	7989 raw · 5 records	81+1 to the score	24th	—no page
12	Vasilis IoannouRomance Languages and Literatures	7890 raw · 12 records	73−1 to the score	51st	863 ratings · all classes
13	Philip NoonanRomance Languages and Literatures Provisional	7689 raw · 2 records	68−2 to the score	42nd	—no page
14	Cristina Perez ArranzRomance Languages and Literatures Provisional fewer records	7588 raw · 2 records	68−2 to the score	37th	—no page
15	Pia CuneoRomance Languages and Literatures	7688 raw · 8 records	74−1 to the score	30th	804 ratings · all classes
16	Susan NaughtonRomance Languages and Literatures Provisional fewer records	7386 raw · 2 records	68−2 to the score	79th	—no page
17	Karla GiorgioVisiting Lecturer, Spanish Language Program · Romance Languages and Literatures	7586 raw · 10 records	75±0 to the score	49th	—no page
18	Olivia BegginsVisiting Assistant Professor of the Practice, Spanish Language Program · Romance Languages and Literatures	7486 raw · 7 records	78±0 to the score	36th	1002 ratings · all classes
19	Marta Mirete HernandezRomance Languages and Literatures	7486 raw · 17 records	77±0 to the score	40th	943 ratings · all classes
20	Paulina Canales BustamanteRomance Languages and Literatures	7385 raw · 11 records	75±0 to the score	39th	—no page
21	Maria Terol CabrerizoRomance Languages and Literatures fewer records	7083 raw · 4 records	68−2 to the score	36th	—no page
22	Antonio OchoaRomance Languages and Literatures	7282 raw · 10 records	84+2 to the score	29th	804 ratings · all classes

All 22 instructors listed.

6 of 22 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 163 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

163 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Olivia Beggins	Spring 2026	01	86	72	—
Susan Naughton	Spring 2026	02	80	80	60
Karla Giorgio	Spring 2026	03	74	71	60
Susan Naughton	Spring 2026	04	93	71	60
Olivia Beggins	Spring 2026	05	87	71	—
Alberto Criado Saez	Spring 2026	06	92	70	60
Silvana Falconi	Spring 2026	07	89	71	60
Karla Giorgio	Spring 2026	08	91	69	60
Marta Mirete Hernandez	Spring 2026	09	89	80	40
Silvana Falconi	Spring 2026	10	90	80	40
Alberto Criado Saez	Spring 2026	11	100	80	60
Karla Giorgio	Spring 2026	13	92	65	60
Marta Mirete Hernandez	Spring 2026	14	92	77	40
Barbara Sargent	Spring 2026	15	89	66	40
Karla Giorgio	Spring 2026	16	100	86	60
Barbara Sargent	Spring 2026	17	100	92	60
Olivia Beggins	Spring 2026	18	90	65	40
Paulina Canales Bustamante	Fall 2025	01	89	60	60
Paulina Canales Bustamante	Fall 2025	02	82	64	60
Silvana Falconi	Fall 2025	03	82	63	60
Marta Mirete Hernandez	Fall 2025	04	85	63	60
Vasilis Ioannou	Fall 2025	05	98	55	60
Silvana Falconi	Fall 2025	06	90	67	60
Genoveva Castro	Fall 2025	07	91	64	60
Vasilis Ioannou	Fall 2025	08	100	69	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.