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Vol. 3, No. 01 (December 2004)
Vol. 2, No. 09 (November 2004)
From The Dean, Lauren K. Robel
From The Dean, Lauren K. Robel
Lauren Robel (2002 Acting; 2003-2011)
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Vol. 2, No. 07/08 (June/July 2004)
Vol. 2, No. 04/05 (March/April 2004)
Vol. 2, No. 03 (February 2004)
The Lsat, Law School Exams And Meritocracy: The Surprising And Undertheorized Role Of Test-Taking Speed, William D. Henderson
The Lsat, Law School Exams And Meritocracy: The Surprising And Undertheorized Role Of Test-Taking Speed, William D. Henderson
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Within the field of psychometrics, it is widely acknowledged that test-taking speed and reasoning ability are separate abilities with little or no correlation to each other. The LSAT is a univariate test designed to measure reasoning ability; test-taking speed is assumed to be an ancillary variable with a negligible effect on candidate scores. This Article explores the possibility that test-taking speed is variable common to both the LSAT and actual law school exams. This commonality is important because it may serve to increase the predictive validity of the LSAT. The author obtained data from a national and a regional law …