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Direct linkNievelstein, 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
Peer reviewedVance, Richard P.; Prichard, Robert W. – Journal of Legal Education, 1992
A survey of 144 first-year law students from 78 undergraduate institutions investigated their level of cultural literacy. On average, students identified 24.1 percent of the 250 test items correctly, with widely varying error patterns by subject. It is concluded that students come to law school without enough factual information about our culture.…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background, Cultural Context, Error Patterns
