Research Guides: Legal Instruction Resources: Student Learning Outcomes and Assessment

ABA Standards

ABA Section of Legal Education, Managing Director’s Guidance Memo on Learning Outcomes: Standards 301, 302, 314 and 315 (June 2015).

Schwartz & Academic and Student Affairs Committee, Memo to Faculty on Student Learning Outcomes (Feb. 8, 2016).

Gerding, Krakoff & Schwartz, Memo to Faculty on New ABA Standards (Aug. 15, 2015).

Selected Outcomes and Assessment Websites

University of Colorado Outcomes Assessment

Other Law Schools:

Learning Outcomes Database (U. of St. Thomas): "This database contains a searchable list of all law school learning outcomes that were available on law school webpages as of January 2017. We have identified those law schools with “basic” learning outcomes – those that recite the language of Standard 302 and nothing more. We also have identified those law schools with more robust learning outcomes than required by the language of Standard 302."

St. John's University School of Law, Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes

Books

Best Practices for Legal Education: A Vision and a Roadmap by Roy Stuckey et al.
Call Number: LAW STACKS 2nd floor KF 272 .S88 2007
Publication Date: Clinical Legal Education Association 2007
Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World by Deborah Maranville, Lisa Radtke Bliss, Carolyn Wilkes Kaas & Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
Call Number: LAW STACKS 2nd floor KF 272 .S883 2015
Publication Date: LexisNexis 2015
Teaching Law by Design: Engaging Students from the Syllabus to the Final Exam by Michael Hunter Schwartz, Sophie Sparrow & Gerald F. Hess
Call Number: LAW STACKS 2nd floor KF 272 .S339 2017
Publication Date: Carolina Academic Press, 2d ed. 2017

Articles

Symposium: Law Student Learning Outcomes and Assessment, 67 Legal Educ. 373-614 (2018).

Neil Hamilton, Formation-of-an-Ethical-Professional Identity (Professionalism) Learning Outcomes and E-Portfolio Formative Assessments, 48 U. Pac. L. Rev. 847 (2017).

Joni Larson, Getting Up to Speed: Understanding the Connection Between Learning Outcomes and Assessments in a Doctrinal Course, SSRN.com, Sept. 5, 2016.

Sharon K. Sandeen, Professional Learning Communities and Collaborative Teams: Tools to Jump-Start the Learning Outcomes Assessment Process, 6 Ne. U. L.J. 189 (2015).