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Direct linkGlöckner, Andreas; Towfigh, Emanuel; Traxler, Christian – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2013
In a comprehensive empirical investigation (N = 71,405) we analyzed the development of legal expertise in a critical 1-year period of academic legal training in which advanced law students start practicing to solve complex cases. We were particularly interested in the functional form of the learning curve and inter-individual differences in…
Descriptors: Law Students, Expertise, Decision Making, Learning Processes
Braten, Ivar; Stromso, Helge I. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2010
In this study, law students (n = 49) read multiple authentic documents presenting conflicting information on the topic of climate change and responded to verification tasks assessing their superficial as well as their deeper-level within- and across-documents comprehension. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that even after variance…
Descriptors: Law Students, Prior Learning, Climate, Epistemology
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
