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When Your Plate Is Already Full: Efficient And Meaningful Outcomes Assessment For Busy Law Schools, Melissa N. Henke
When Your Plate Is Already Full: Efficient And Meaningful Outcomes Assessment For Busy Law Schools, Melissa N. Henke
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The American Bar Association (ABA) accreditation standards involving outcome-based assessment are a game changer for legal education. The standards reaffirm the importance of providing students with formative feedback throughout their course of study to assess and improve student learning. The standards also require law schools to evaluate their effectiveness, and to do so from the perspective of student performance within the institution’s program of study. The relevant question is no longer what are law schools teaching their students, but instead, what are students learning from law schools in terms of the knowledge, skills, and values that are essential for those …
Outcomes In The Balance: The Crisis In Legal Education As Catalyst For Change, Beau Steenken
Outcomes In The Balance: The Crisis In Legal Education As Catalyst For Change, Beau Steenken
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In this article, the author discusses how changes in the legal education market can force legal research teachers to focus their energies on meaningful assessment.