Class record · UNAS · MCAS

UNAS 1730

Institutional Disparity: Equity and US Education · 1 instructor on record · 2 sections

What the course score is made of

88BC evaluations2 records · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2023

—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute

—RateMyProfessorsno ratings — does not contribute

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

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

89BC — “Intellectually Challenging”2 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

25thMore work than 25% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

40BC — “Workload”2 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

2 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Jessica BlackAssociate Professor · Psychology and Neuroscience Provisional	962 records	25th	41st	1004 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Jessica Black is the only instructor with evaluation records for UNAS 1730, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 2 records, which is thin — read it as provisional. The RateMyProfessors figure is their overall score across everything they teach, not their score in this class.

Also taught by Jessica Black

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
SCWK 7724Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience in the Life Course	37 records	74
SCWK 7726Neuroscience of Human Relationships and Development	57 records	64
SCWK 9992Theories and Methods of Teaching in Professional Education	15 records	89
UNAS 1718Maternity and Science: Neuroscience & Genetics	15 records	93
PSYC 3322The Neuroscience of Spirituality: Exploring Religion and the Brain	11 record	100
UNAS 1734Reckoning with Incarceration: Biological Perspectives	11 record	97

Other UNAS classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
UNAS 1199Gateway to the Sciences Seminar	958 records	82
UNAS 3348Cross Currents Seminar: Thinking about Resilience	936 records	93
UNAS 1725Real Estate and Urban Action: Transforming Communities and Increasing Access to Opportunity	529 records	82
UNAS 1005Applications of Learning Theory	827 records	84
UNAS 1702Life Liberty & Health: The Economics Policy and Law of Healthcare	224 records	78
UNAS 3337Cross Currents: Thinking about Multicultural Leadership	1224 records	75

The line

All 13 items · means across 2 records

The Professor4 items

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

9669th pctl

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

9562nd pctl

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

9671st pctl

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

9659th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9039th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9464th pctl

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

9030th pctl

Assignments & Feedback2 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

8939th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9466th 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.

4025th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

8941st pctl

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

9043rd 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. 1 of 13 questions were not reported and are left out rather than shown as zero.

Game log

2 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Jessica Black	Spring 2023	01	97	90	40
Jessica Black	Spring 2023	02	95	86	40

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.