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Implementing A First-Year Research Assessment, Savanna L. Nolan
Implementing A First-Year Research Assessment, Savanna L. Nolan
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University of Baltimore Law librarians do not have a formal role in teaching legal research, but are frequent guest lecturers and recognized research experts. As such, we volunteered to administer UB's first summative assessment in accordance with the recent implementation of ABA Standard 314. This poster shows the steps taken to design, execute, and grade this legal research assessment, as well as how we reported the results to stakeholders.
The assessment had an objective true/false and multiple-choice section, and a subjective essay question. The librarians selected objective questions considering the core legal research competencies identified by RIPS-SIS following the MacCrate …
Government Internet Resources: Federal, State And Local, David E. Matchen Jr.
Government Internet Resources: Federal, State And Local, David E. Matchen Jr.
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This presentation discusses the basic outlines of federal legal research as well as state and local legal research. Discussion of state and local legal research is limited to Maryland, but many states have comparable systems.