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Teaching Business Associations With Group Oral Midterms: Benefits And Drawbacks, Joan Macleod Heminway
Teaching Business Associations With Group Oral Midterms: Benefits And Drawbacks, Joan Macleod Heminway
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I focus in this Article on a particular way to assess student learning in a Business Associations course. Those of us involved in legal education for the past few years know that “assessment” has been a buzzword...or a bugaboo...or both. The American Bar Association (ABA) has focused law schools on assessment (institutional and pedagogical), and that focus is not, in my view, misplaced. Until relatively recently, much of student assessment in law school doctrinal courses was rote behavior, seemingly driven by heuristics and resulting in something constituting (or at least resembling) information cascades or other herding behaviors.
In the fall …