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Saturday Schedule
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Saturday, January 4, 2003
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10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
AALS Committee on Curriculum and Research
Mary Anne Bobinski, University of Houston, Program Chair |
Delaware Suite A
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Lobby Level |
Learning Theory and Student Evaluation:
Throw Out Those Blue Books?
Moderator:
Mary Anne Bobinski, University of Houston
Speakers: - William Nichol Eskridge, Jr., Yale Law School
- Pamela S. Karlan, Stanford Law School
- Catherine G. Krupnick, Lecturer on Education, School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow, Georgetown University
- Deborah Waire Post, Touro College
- Gerald Torres, The University of Texas
Discussions of traditional law school evaluation practices often fail to consider how these practices determine or reflect students' learning. What do traditional examination results reveal beyond how various students perform-compared to each other-on law school exams? This session will address this issue from both theoretical and practical perspectives.
Questions to be considered include: What do students learn as they prepare for blue book exams and other forms of assessment? How do various innovations affect individual's learning and performance? How do students' knowledge, abilities, and professional capacities benefit from innovations such as co-authored exams, longer exams, role plays, video-taped performances, computer aided simulations.
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