Tag: standardisation
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BILETA 2017 final thoughts: the redress of legal education
It was a fine conference, well organised by Anabela Susana Sousa Goncalves and her team at the Universidade do Minho. I love Portugal. I was brought up a Catholic, so it seemed perfectly natural to me to put a statue of St Francis holding the infant Jesus above the gantry in the hotel bar – a…
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Conference final thoughts
The sessions were pretty short — 15 mins, no questions. Julian mentioned he was bursting to ask questions, make comments, and that was my experience too. But interestingly, the constant roll of presentations allowed us to see the comparisons and contrasts, the common points between the presentations. There were some stand out approaches to assessment,…
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50 years of assessment in legal education – liveblog, pm
Post-lunch now, and Penny English, Anglia Ruskin U first up, on ‘Using posters as a means of summative assessment’. She defined it from Handron 1994 as ‘an experiential learning activity that stimulates curiosity and interest, encourages exploration and integration of concepts and provides students with a novel way of demonstrating understanding.’ As she pointed out,…
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50 years of assessment in legal education
This is a conference hosted by the Association of Law Teachers at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, today, and part of their 50th anniversary celebrations (there’s a 50 Years of Legal Education conference later in the year), which are looking back as well as looking forward to the future(s) of legal education. Maybe it’s…