Creating an Institutional Culture of Assessment

Abstract

This is chapter 7 of Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World. It includes contributions by two authors:

• Section A, An Institutional Culture of Assessment for Student Learning, is by Barbara Glesner Fines.
• Section B, Implications for Traditional Grading Practices, is by Judith Welch Wegner.

Chapter 1 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637100

Chapter 2 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637068

Chapter 3 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637102

Chapter 4 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637490

Chapter 5 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637495

Chapter 6 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637499

Chapter 8 is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637544

The content of this SSRN posting is material that was published in the book Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World, Maranville, et al., Lexis Nexis 2015. The content has been posted on SSRN with the express permission of Lexis Nexis and of Carolina Academic Press, publisher of the book as of January 1, 2016.

Keywords: legal education, law schools, pedagogy, assessment, grades