TMPS 7080
Spiritual Formation for Ministry · 6 instructors on record · 50 sections
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.
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.
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.
This two semester program, a requirement for first year M.A. Theology and Ministry students, cultivates practices for integrating faith, life, and ministry through prayer and reflection on central themes of spirituality for ministry. The program consists of two parts. First, a student commits to a small faith community, which meets on the same day and same time twelve times during the academic year under the guidance of a trained facilitator. Second, a student creates a spiritual formation plan (SFP), the components of which may be fulfilled throughout the duration of one's degree program.
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. 1 of the 6 rows carry a mark saying so.
| Rank | Instructor | Overall | Workload | Challenge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeffrey HatgasTheology and Ministry | 9510 records | 3rd | 3rd |
| 2 | Crista MahoneyTheology and Ministry | 884 records | 2nd | 1st |
| 3 | Barbara QuinnTheology and Ministry | 8821 records | 3rd | 2nd |
| 4 | Jacqueline ReganTheology and Ministry | 8712 records | 2nd | 13th |
| 5 | John GlynnTheology and Ministry Provisional fewer records | 731 record | 25th | 9th |
| 6 | Judith TalvacchiaTheology and Ministry Provisional | 782 records | 0th | 0th |
How this board is orderedPositions 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”. Overall is the instructor's blended score for THIS class only, and its one contributing source is Boston College's evaluations for the sections in the row's record count — nothing on this board is an average across the other things they teach. Workload and Challenge are RANKS against every class we hold, not scores: BC's questions all sit near the top of the 1-5 scale, so a raw number would put almost every row in the high eighties and tell you nothing. Challenge is BC's “intellectually challenging” item, which students answer positively about courses that stretched them — it is not a measure of difficulty or grading. Neither column is ever marked better or worse. 2 of 6 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 line
All 13 items · means across 50 recordsBar 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
50 sections · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeffrey Hatgas | Spring 2026 | 01 | 90 | 80 | — |
| Jacqueline Regan | Spring 2026 | 02 | 83 | 83 | 20 |
| Crista Mahoney | Spring 2026 | 04 | 80 | 60 | 20 |
| Jeffrey Hatgas | Fall 2025 | 01 | 95 | 90 | 40 |
| Jacqueline Regan | Fall 2025 | 02 | 93 | 85 | 20 |
| Crista Mahoney | Fall 2025 | 04 | 90 | 90 | 20 |
| Crista Mahoney | Summer 2025 | 01 | 91 | 90 | 40 |
| Jacqueline Regan | Summer 2025 | 01 | 60 | 90 | 40 |
| Jeffrey Hatgas | Spring 2025 | 01 | 91 | 89 | 40 |
| Jacqueline Regan | Spring 2025 | 03 | 97 | 91 | 40 |
| Crista Mahoney | Spring 2025 | 04 | 92 | 88 | 40 |
| Jeffrey Hatgas | Fall 2024 | 01 | 91 | 91 | 40 |
| Jacqueline Regan | Fall 2024 | 03 | 90 | 88 | — |
| Jacqueline Regan | Summer 2024 | 01 | 89 | 77 | 40 |
| Barbara Quinn | Spring 2024 | 01 | 100 | 73 | 40 |
| Jeffrey Hatgas | Spring 2024 | 01 | 93 | 73 | 40 |
| Barbara Quinn | Spring 2024 | 03 | 80 | 83 | 20 |
| Jacqueline Regan | Spring 2024 | 03 | 83 | 83 | 20 |
| Barbara Quinn | Spring 2024 | 04 | 88 | 85 | 40 |
| Barbara Quinn | Fall 2023 | 01 | 100 | 95 | — |
| Jeffrey Hatgas | Fall 2023 | 01 | 93 | 95 | — |
| Barbara Quinn | Fall 2023 | 03 | 80 | 80 | — |
| Jacqueline Regan | Fall 2023 | 03 | 84 | 80 | — |
| Barbara Quinn | Fall 2023 | 04 | 91 | 83 | — |
| Barbara Quinn | Summer 2023 | 01 | 95 | 95 | — |
Showing the first 25.
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.