Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:
- Identify the value of following evidence, rather than intuition, when selecting study practices for law school
- Recognize benefits of knowledge in problem-solving: understanding via inference-making, speed via analogical transfer, critical thinking via working memory capacity
- Spot characteristics of knowledge that yield problem-solving benefits: elaborative, contextualized, hierarchical, operative (ECHO)
- Implement a law school outlining approach that creates requisite knowledge
- Recognize the difficulty of knowing what you know
- Comprehend the role of deep processing and retrieval practice in encoding
- Comprehend the role of case facts as retrieval cues
- Implement an approach to encoding outline using retrieval practice
- Deconstruct IRAC process for legal analysis
- Evaluate written legal analysis