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Thornton, Andrea E.; Reese, Lynda M.; Pashley, Peter J. – 1998
Test takers were asked to report which, if any, methods they used to help prepare for the Law School Admission Test (LSAT). The study began with the 1991-1992 academic testing year and ended with the 1996-1997 academic testing year. More than 100,000 students responded in each of the years, with the exception of a smaller sample in 1996-1997…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Higher Education, Law Schools, Law Students
Thornton, Andrea E.; Reese, Lynda M.; Pashley, Peter J.; Dalessandro, Susan P. – 2002
This study was undertaken to evaluate the predictive validity of the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) earned under accommodated testing conditions. Of special interest was the validity of scores obtained by test takers who were accommodated under nonstandard time conditions (i.e., accommodations that included extra testing time). Separate…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Grade Point Average, Higher Education
Pashley, Peter J.; Thornton, Andrea E. – 1999
This report proposes an approach to formalize the law school admission process by first requiring law schools to delineate the characteristics they want their incoming classes to possess (e.g., types of undergraduate major, percent of in-state versus out-of-state residents, and levels of cultural diversity). These are then used as constraints on…
Descriptors: Admission (School), College Applicants, College Entrance Examinations, Diversity (Student)