LSATiriasis
I've been asked to pass this along. As it is a worthy message and cause, I will.
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Dear Member of the Class of 2006,
I urge you to participate in a vital and innovative research study that seeks to create a different type of law school admission instrument to be used in addition to the LSAT and LSDAS index score. This new test aims to predict a person’s likely effectiveness as a lawyer rather than solely predicting grades in law school, as current methods do. Working with psychologists who specialize in testing and predicting on-the-job effectiveness and using information gathered earlier from law grads, faculty and students, researchers (Professors Marjorie Shultz and Sheldon Zedeck) have created an array of new tests.
They are now beginning the final and most critical stage in their six years of research – administration of the new tests to various groups to evaluate whether the tests validly predict what they are trying to predict. Take the test now:
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/BeyondTheLSAT/
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Dear Member of the Class of 2006,
I urge you to participate in a vital and innovative research study that seeks to create a different type of law school admission instrument to be used in addition to the LSAT and LSDAS index score. This new test aims to predict a person’s likely effectiveness as a lawyer rather than solely predicting grades in law school, as current methods do. Working with psychologists who specialize in testing and predicting on-the-job effectiveness and using information gathered earlier from law grads, faculty and students, researchers (Professors Marjorie Shultz and Sheldon Zedeck) have created an array of new tests.
They are now beginning the final and most critical stage in their six years of research – administration of the new tests to various groups to evaluate whether the tests validly predict what they are trying to predict. Take the test now:
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/BeyondTheLSAT/
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posted by Armen Adzhemyan at 7:02 AM
4 Comments:
Let me see. They want the new test to test effectiveness as a lawyer. So they're having 3Ls take a survey? (What, getting actual lawyers was too difficult, or is this just one of those sign-up-so-we-can-track-your-life-for-the-next-ten-years deals?)
Yet another poorly-designed study coming up, from the sounds of it...
They are going to be testing lawyers too. The reason for testing students is that in addition to having virtually no predictive power on how good of a lawyer you will be, the LSAT also only has a very limited ability to predict first year grades and no predictive value on law school performance beyond the first year.
Maybe you should find out something about what you're doing before you pass judgment on it. It sounds like this approach makes at least as much sense as the current LSAT approach.
"server failed to find requested data"
that's because the link was copied straight out of Calmail.
Here's the correct link.
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