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Ranking Law Schools With Lsats, Employment Outcomes, And Law Review Citations, Alfred L. Brophy Jan 2016

Ranking Law Schools With Lsats, Employment Outcomes, And Law Review Citations, Alfred L. Brophy

Indiana Law Journal

This Article offers an alternative to the much-discussed U.S. News & World Report rankings. Where U.S. News rankings are affected by a wide variety of factors —some of which are criticized as irrelevant to what prospective students care about or should care about—this Article looks to three variables: the median LSAT score of entering students, which seeks to capture the quality of the student body; the percentage of the graduating students who are employed at nine months following graduation at full-time, permanent, JD-required jobs (a separate analysis excludes school-funded positions and solo practitioners from this variable); and the number of …

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Standardized Testing, Learning, And Meritocracy: A Reply To Professor Dan Subotnik, Harvey Gilmore Jan 2016

Standardized Testing, Learning, And Meritocracy: A Reply To Professor Dan Subotnik, Harvey Gilmore

Touro Law Review

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Aeljvol20n01_Ct_2016.Pdf, Mayur S. Desai, Bruce Berger, Roger Higgs Dec 2015

Aeljvol20n01_Ct_2016.Pdf, Mayur S. Desai, Bruce Berger, Roger Higgs

Mayur S Desai

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Estimating The Effects Of Educational System Contraction: The Case Of China’S Rural School Merger Initiative, Emily Hannum, Xiaoying Liu, Fan Wang Dec 2015

Estimating The Effects Of Educational System Contraction: The Case Of China’S Rural School Merger Initiative, Emily Hannum, Xiaoying Liu, Fan Wang

Emily C. Hannum

Contraction of educational systems can be a policy response to shrinking school-age cohorts. In China, fertility decline and unprecedented population outmigration have eroded school-aged populations in some rural communities, and a national policy to consolidate educational infrastructure in sparsely-populated rural districts was implemented in the early 2000s. This paper capitalizes on a unique household and village economic survey implemented in 2011 among households in 751 villages across 7 provinces in western China that collected information about primary school closures. 217 villages had school closures after 1999. We analyze impact on educational attainment with a difference-in-difference identification strategy by exploiting the …

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Inter-Rater Variability As Mutual Disagreement: Identifying Raters’ Divergent Points Of View, A. Gingerich, Susan E. Ramlo Dec 2015

Inter-Rater Variability As Mutual Disagreement: Identifying Raters’ Divergent Points Of View, A. Gingerich, Susan E. Ramlo

Susan E Ramlo

Whenever multiple observers provide ratings, even of the same performance,
inter-rater variation is prevalent. The resulting ‘idiosyncratic rater variance’ is considered
to be unusable error of measurement in psychometric models and is a threat to the
defensibility of our assessments. Prior studies of inter-rater variation in clinical assessments
have used open response formats to gather raters’ comments and justifications. This
design choice allows participants to use idiosyncratic response styles that could result in a
distorted representation of the underlying rater cognition and skew subsequent analyses. In
this study we explored rater variability using the structured response format of Q
methodology. …

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Lessons From Pisa 2012 About Mathematical Literacy : An Illustrated Essay, Ross Turner Dec 2015

Lessons From Pisa 2012 About Mathematical Literacy : An Illustrated Essay, Ross Turner

Ross Turner

Mathematics is central in school curricula around the world, yet outcomes are mixed at best. This is true both in relation to attitudes expressed towards mathematics, and in relation to observed assessment outcomes, showing how poorly individuals are prepared to use mathematics in a world in which the ability to do so is of increasing importance. Why? This essay uses some mathematics outcomes from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 to seek explanations and possible ways forward. The main message is that negative outcomes of school mathematics arise for a variety of reasons, and they can be reversed …

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