Education
Apr. 12, 2014
Law schools gearing up to look closer at how well they teach
Pushed by impending ABA standards, law schools are beginning to craft and use "student learning outcomes" to guide and evaluate their success at teaching.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Students in seminar classes at UC Hastings College of the Law this year are getting more than simple grades on their long writing assignments. They also get back a grid evaluating their papers from excellent to poor for originality, development of thesis, quality of argument, grammar and spelling, and 17 other factors of legal writing. The grid, called a rubric, is the Hastings faculty's initial fora...
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