{"id":40,"date":"2009-08-18T14:51:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T20:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/?p=40"},"modified":"2009-08-18T15:14:59","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T21:14:59","slug":"assessing-student-learning-a-report-from-the-eastern-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/2009\/08\/18\/assessing-student-learning-a-report-from-the-eastern-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing Student Learning:  A Report from the Eastern Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegiefoundation.org\/publications\/pub.asp?key=43&amp;subkey=618\" target=\"_blank\">Educating Lawyers:\u00a0 Preparation for the Profession of Law (2007)<\/a> started it (again).\u00a0 Then\u00a0the ABA adopted minimum Bar passage standards for law schools (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abanet.org\/legaled\/standards\/20072008StandardsWebContent\/Interpretation%20301-6.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Interpretation 301-6<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abanet.org\/legaled\/standards\/standards.html\" target=\"_blank\">Standards for Law School Approval<\/a>).\u00a0 Then the ABA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abanet.org\/legaled\/committees\/comstandards.html\" target=\"_blank\">Standards Review Commmittee<\/a>\u00a0appointed a Special Committee on Outcome Measures (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abanet.org\/legaled\/committees\/subcomm\/Outcome%20Measures%20Final%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Report<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abanet.org\/legaled\/committees\/subcomm.html\" target=\"_blank\">Comments<\/a>).\u00a0 The upshot is that law schools are going to be paying much more attention to assessing student learning.\u00a0 Law schools are latecomers at this.\u00a0 You might even say we&#8217;re a back-water.\u00a0 The rest of the American academy started a while ago, not to mention grades K-12 and No Child Left Behind.<\/p>\n<p>On the Brainstorm blog on the Chronicle of Higher Education website, Sara Goldrick-Rab asks &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogPost\/Is-Our-Students-Learning-\/7703\/?sid=at&amp;utm_source=at&amp;utm_medium=en\" target=\"_blank\">Is Our Student&#8217;s Learning?<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0 She discusses a recent presentation, at the meeting of the American Sociological Association, on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssrc.org\/programs\/cla-longitudinal-study\/\">CLA Longitudinal Study<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0According to Goldrick-Rab, one of the findings is that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[S]tudents who start behind tend to stay behind; put another way those inequalities at the starting gate are consistent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Certainly, that&#8217;s what my analysis of law-school first-time Bar-passage rates shows:\u00a0 Law schools whose students have lower LSAT scores have lower Bar passage rates.\u00a0 <em>See Unpacking the Bar:\u00a0 Of Cut Scores and Competence,<\/em> 32 J. Legal Prof. 67 (2008) (<a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=988429\">submission draft<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>For law schools with a greater number of at-risk students, the question is whether better instructional practices and assessment, as well as academic support, can improve student learning.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Rosin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Educating Lawyers:\u00a0 Preparation for the Profession of Law (2007) started it (again).\u00a0 Then\u00a0the ABA adopted minimum Bar passage standards for law schools (Interpretation 301-6 of the Standards for Law School Approval).\u00a0 Then the ABA&#8217;s Standards Review Commmittee\u00a0appointed a Special Committee on Outcome Measures (Report\u00a0and\u00a0Comments).\u00a0 The upshot is that law schools are going to be paying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,11],"tags":[9,10,8,5],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rankings","category-scholarship","category-student-learning","tag-assessment","tag-learning","tag-outcomes","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}