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Direct linkLange, Christopher; Gorbunova, Anna; Shcheglova, Irina; Costley, Jamie – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2023
Research often examines cognitive load as it relates to direct instruction, worked examples and problem-solving combined as an integrated whole. The present study examines these strategies in isolation to see their effect on cognitive load. Using learning materials covering the basics of critical thinking to undergraduate law students (n = 160) at…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Problem Solving, Educational Strategies, Cognitive Processes
Download full textNebeska, Marina S.; Provorova, Yevheniia M.; Gerasymova, Elvira M.; Vykhovanets, Zorina S.; Yepryntsev, Pylyp S. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
The article urges the problem of enhancing the academic activity of law students as one of the ways of improving the efficiency and quality of professional training. The nature and structure of academic activity of future lawyers are covered. Thus, academic activity is a form of a human activity, which structure is viewed through the prism of…
Descriptors: Law Students, Legal Education (Professions), Student Motivation, Career Choice
Nasilenko, Lyudmyla – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2014
In the article the state of forming of communicative competence of future lawyers in higher education of Ukraine and Germany is analyzed. There is made the comparative description of preparation of the students of law faculty with an accent on forming of communicative competence on the example of the University of modern knowledge (Ukraine) and…
Descriptors: Lawyers, Verbal Ability, Communication Skills, Foreign Countries
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
Peer reviewedDiaz, 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
Woolever, Kristin R. – 1987
Although law professors often say that first year law students need training to "think like lawyers," many law students survive law school by practicing the "skill" of rote memory. It is when they take the bar examination or actually begin to work in a law office that they need the faculty of analytical thinking, for notes must…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Writing, Critical Thinking, Expository Writing
