Carney Curve

Boston College course evaluations · Fall 2021 through Spring 2026, ranked class by class

How this list is 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.

Instructor record

Brian O'Connor

Romance Languages and Literatures

How the curve score is built
80Teaching91 raw · 62nd percentile of BC instructors
±0Easiness adjustmentworkload not reported — takes nothing off the score
80Curve scorethe teaching curve — nothing added or taken off

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 instructors 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. Boston College's workload question was not reported in these records, so easiness could not be worked out. That is missing data, not a heavy class — and it takes nothing off the score.

Records33
Classes9
TermsFall 2021 – Spring 2026
On each class's board
ITAL 10212nd of 2 instructorsITAL 10222nd of 2 instructorsITAL 11112nd of 2 instructorsITAL 11121st of 2 instructorsITAL 10032nd of 9 instructorsITAL 10048th of 11 instructors ProvisionalITAL 55552nd of 2 instructors ProvisionalITAL 11134th of 10 instructors ProvisionalITAL 11148th of 10 instructors Provisional
Sources
BC evaluations9133 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – Spring 2026
Student reviews—no reviews — not counted
RateMyProfessors—no ratings — not counted
How is this worked out?

Sources are averaged by how much we trust each one and by how many records sit behind it, so a handful of reviews nudges the number rather than replacing it.

Where challenge and workload come from
Challenge
—BC — “Intellectually Challenging”33 records — does not contribute

Not reported in these records — which is missing data, not an easy class. Boston College's “intellectually challenging” question was not reported in these records, so there is nothing to show. That is missing data, not an easy class.

Workload
—BC — “Workload”33 records — does not contribute

Not reported in these records — which is missing data, not a light class. Boston College's workload question was not reported in these records, so there is nothing to show. That is missing data, not a light class.

Ratings

All 13 items · 33 records

Nothing reported

None of the evaluation questions were reported for these records.

Class by class

9 classes · 33 sections
8 sections · course rated 83/100 · all 13 items
TermSecInstrCourseWork
Fall 2025019189—
Fall 2025029692—
Fall 2024016856—
Fall 2024027069—
Fall 20230110096—
Fall 2023028986—
Fall 202201100100—
Fall 2022028476—

Nothing reported

None of the evaluation questions were reported for these records.

8 sections · course rated 88/100 · all 13 items
TermSecInstrCourseWork
Spring 2026018989—
Spring 2026028986—
Spring 2025019090—
Spring 2025029383—
Spring 2024019187—
Spring 2024028884—
Spring 2023019593—
Spring 2023029090—

Nothing reported

None of the evaluation questions were reported for these records.

4 sections · course rated 84/100 · all 13 items
TermSecInstrCourseWork
Fall 2025019493—
Fall 2024018888—
Fall 2023019590—
Fall 2022016864—

Nothing reported

None of the evaluation questions were reported for these records.

4 sections · course rated 94/100 · all 13 items
TermSecInstrCourseWork
Spring 2026019590—
Spring 202501100100—
Spring 2024018585—
Spring 202301100100—

Nothing reported

None of the evaluation questions were reported for these records.

ITAL 1003Elementary Italian ICurve86Easy—Chal—
3 sections · course rated 89/100 · all 13 items
TermSecInstrCourseWork
Fall 2023039490—
Fall 2022039589—
Fall 2021039486—

Nothing reported

None of the evaluation questions were reported for these records.

ITAL 1004Elementary Italian IICurve82Easy—Chal—
Board8th of 11 instructors Provisional
2 sections · course rated 86/100 · all 13 items
TermSecInstrCourseWork
Spring 2024039591—
Spring 2023038882—

Nothing reported

None of the evaluation questions were reported for these records.

Board2nd of 2 instructors Provisional
2 sections · course rated 89/100 · all 13 items
TermSecInstrCourseWork
Spring 2024019595—
Spring 2022018783—

Nothing reported

None of the evaluation questions were reported for these records.

ITAL 1113Intermediate Italian ICurve99Easy—Chal—
Board4th of 10 instructors Provisional
1 section · course rated 95/100 · all 13 items
TermSecInstrCourseWork
Fall 20210110095—

Nothing reported

None of the evaluation questions were reported for these records.

Board8th of 10 instructors Provisional
1 section · course rated 95/100 · all 13 items
TermSecInstrCourseWork
Spring 20220110095—

Nothing reported

None of the evaluation questions were reported for these records.

How each position is worked out

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.

How to read this page

The big number is a CURVE score, not Boston College's average. BC's own scale is bunched at the top — the median instructor averages about 88 out of 100 on it and 44% of them clear 90 — so this site ranks the average against every instructor we hold and prints that rank back out of 100. A 77 is the median, 84 is the top quarter, 91 is the top tenth. On top of that sits an EASINESS adjustment worth up to about ±6 points — the workload rank turned over, so a lighter class gains and a heavier one loses, while an ordinary workload is worth exactly nothing — and the adjustment is printed on the card, signed. Every raw BC average and every percentile behind the curve is in the strip under the plate, and the thirteen items below are shown the same way, curved, with the raw figure on each cell. Challenge is not difficulty and workload is not hours; neither is marked better or worse. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero. The position printed against each class is this instructor's place on that class's own board, computed from the same records the board itself is built from.