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The Role of Attorney Mental Models of Law in Case Relevance Determinations: An Exploratory Analysis.
Peer reviewedSutton, Stuart A. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
Examines the information seeking and evaluative behavior of attorneys and explores the dynamic mental models attorneys construct. Highlights include domain-specific relevance; cognitive maps; current research on the retrieval performance of two full-text legal databases, LEXIS and WESTLAW; and implications of attorneys' mental models for legal…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Mapping, Court Litigation, Full Text Databases
Peer reviewedStorer, John H.; And Others – Equity & Excellence in Education, 1995
Studies the problem of rural Iowa school personnel classifying students according to a "folk" classification of risk rather than research-derived risk factors. The authors construct a "cognitive map" for these teachers of at-risk students. The implications of the content of this map for meeting the needs of at-risk students are…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Children, Classification, Cognitive Mapping
