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TMST 8091

Contemporary Sacramental and Liturgical Theology · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of

87BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2022

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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

100thMore challenging than 100% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

100BC — “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.

Advances have been made in the past fifty years with regard to sacramental/liturgical theology. This course will investigate the contributions made by Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Protestant scholars who use different methods to move beyond traditional debates about sacraments. Several of the authors are non-RC: Hughes (Reformed), Larson-Miller (Anglican), Saliers (Methodist); Smith (Reformed). Attention will be paid to women theologians (Belcher and Larson-Miller) as well as to Latino theology (Empereur/Fernandez).

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
John BaldovinTheology and Ministry Provisional	871 record	93rd	100th

There is no ranking to read here: John Baldovin is the only instructor with evaluation records for TMST 8091, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional.

Also taught by John Baldovin

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
TMPS 7054Introduction to Liturgy	25 records	80
TMST 7091Eucharistic Theology	15 records	85
TMST 7101Directed Reading	35 records	90
TMST 8021Priesthood: Theology and Praxis	24 records	79
TMHC 8010Medievel Liturgy	12 records	93
TMST 7193Sacraments: Theology and Practice	22 records	93

Other TMST classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
TMST 7024Christology	614 records	88
TMST 7020The Church	313 records	91
TMST 7057Theological Foundations in Practical Perspective	611 records	91
TMST 7081Writing and Research for Theology and Ministry	210 records	89
TMST 7009Fundamental Theology	39 records	87
TMST 7058Sacraments in the Life of the Church	25 records	94

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.

9349th pctl

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

9670th pctl

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

8514th pctl

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

8817th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9363rd pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9042nd pctl

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

9356th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9367th pctl

Gives Feedback PromptlyI received feedback on my work in a timely manner.

9781st pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9780th 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.

100100th pctl

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

9361st 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

1 section · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
John Baldovin	Spring 2022	01	87	87	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.