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Nievelstein, Fleurie; van Gog, Tamara; van Dijck, Gijs; Boshuizen, Henny P. A. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2013
The worked example effect indicates that learning by studying worked examples is more effective than learning by solving the equivalent problems. The expertise reversal effect indicates that this is only the case for novice learners; once prior knowledge of the task is available problem solving becomes more effective for learning. These effects,…
Descriptors: Law Students, Novices, Expertise, Court Litigation
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Nievelstein, Fleurie; van Gog, Tamara; Boshuizen, Henny P. A.; Prins, Frans J. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2010
Due to the complexity of the legal domain, reasoning about law cases is a very complex skill. For novices in law school, legal reasoning is even more complex because they have not yet acquired the conceptual knowledge needed for distilling the relevant information from cases, determining applicable rules, and searching for rules and exceptions in…
Descriptors: Law Students, Advanced Students, Law Schools, Knowledge Level