Presentation
Using Science to Build Better Learners: One School’s Successful Efforts to Raise its Bar Passage Rates in an Era of Decline
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
(2017)
Abstract
What measures can law schools take to improve student performance and bar passage? The answer is not what you think. Recent developments in the science of learning show that most law students learn wrong. In fact, ineffective methods of learning pervade all levels of education. We now know that widely accepted learning and study strategies that were once considered gospel are actually deeply flawed. Yet we still embrace and propagate those myths.
Meanwhile, bar passage rates and law student performance are plummeting. Everyone in legal education is asking, “What can we do?” But, “What can we do?” is the wrong question. The right question is to ask how students can capitalize on the science of learning to be more effective learners.
In this essay, I discuss principles from the science of learning that law schools and students should
embrace. I detail how implementing this strategy helped Florida International College of Law
increase its bar passage rate, support its students’ success, and build better learners.
Disciplines
- Law and
- Legal Education
Publication Date
2017
Citation Information
Louis N. Schulze Jr, "Using Science to Build Better Learners: One School’s Successful Efforts to Raise its Bar Passage Rates in an Era of Decline", Presentation at University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES 2017-2018