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Glöckner, Andreas; Towfigh, Emanuel; Traxler, Christian – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2013
In a comprehensive empirical investigation (N = 71,405) we analyzed the development of legal expertise in a critical 1-year period of academic legal training in which advanced law students start practicing to solve complex cases. We were particularly interested in the functional form of the learning curve and inter-individual differences in…
Descriptors: Law Students, Expertise, Decision Making, Learning Processes
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Diaz, Rolando J.; Glass, Carol R.; Arnkoff, Diane B.; Tanofsky-Kraff, Marian – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2001
Two models (exam and oral argument performance) to predict academic performance using ability, affective, and cognitive variables were evaluated using students in their first year of law school. Different processes appear to operate in each of the two academic tasks. The implications of the results for law school education and future research are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Measures, Anxiety, Cognitive Processes