Assessments

Distruptalicious Legal Instruction: A year of learning outcomes and multiple assessments

Speaker(s): 
Jenny Wondracek, Eric Porterfield, Beth Donahue

The new ABA standards require law schools to incorporate learning outcomes into all of their credit bearing courses (Standard 302) and to utilize both formative and summative assessments to “to measure and improve student learning and provide meaningful feedback to students” (Standard 314). 

Slides and Documents: 
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation iconCALI_Pres_2015 - Combined Final.pptx
application/pdf iconABA_Memo.pdf

Schedule info

Time slot: 
18 June 13:00 - 14:00
Room: 
165
Video: 
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“Reducing the Guesswork Out of Student Attrition and Bar Passage: Empowering Students Through a Numbers-based Approach by Informing Them Where They Stand Through Every Part of Their Legal Education”

Speaker(s): 
Tommy Sangchompuphen, Randy Mathews

Nearly every jurisdiction saw a dip in bar passage rates on the July 2014 bar exam. The national mean scaled MBE score for July 2014 was 141.47, which was also three points lower than the July 2013 score. The July 2014 number was the lowest mean scaled MBE score for a July exam since 2004, when the mean scaled MBE score was 141.2.
 

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