http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/07/25/335/ A Vision and a Road Map Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:24:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/07/25/335/#comment-289 Doug Rush Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:45:55 +0000 http://bestpracticeslegaled.wordpress.com/?p=335#comment-289 Roy: You might be interested to know that I repeated my study using one year of data from Hofstra Law School concerning their graduates' performance on the July 2007 NY bar exam with identical results. The number of "bar" courses taken had no affect on bar exam passage for students ranked in the first, second or fourth quartiles and only a very weak affect on third quartile graduates ability to pass the exam. As shown in previous studies, LGPA, LSAT scores and UGPA account for 50% of the variance in graduates' ability to pass bar exams. My conclusion, if you want students to pass bar exams, teach more logic, reasoning and test taking skills. Doug Rush, J.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Saint Louis University Roy: You might be interested to know that I repeated my study using one year of data from Hofstra Law School concerning their graduates’ performance on the July 2007 NY bar exam with identical results. The number of “bar” courses taken had no affect on bar exam passage for students ranked in the first, second or fourth quartiles and only a very weak affect on third quartile graduates ability to pass the exam. As shown in previous studies, LGPA, LSAT scores and UGPA account for 50% of the variance in graduates’ ability to pass bar exams. My conclusion, if you want students to pass bar exams, teach more logic, reasoning and test taking skills. Doug Rush, J.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Saint Louis University

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