Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Green Bag 2D
Publication Date
2013
ISSN
1931-9711
Page Number
377
Keywords
moot courts, studying and teaching, fairness
Disciplines
Law | Legal Education | Legal Writing and Research
Abstract
Although the focus in this Article is moot court scoring, one can envision many other instances of law school assessment in which such a normalization problem arises. Law review competitions also involve different sets of graders, whose subjective determinations must be reasonably commensurate to make fair comparisons. Even more intriguing, although presenting a more complicated problem, law school grades suffer the same normalization concern. Courses feature material with different degrees of difficulty, attract different pools of students, and are taught by different instructors. Yet, class rank and graduation honors are ultimately calculated under the assumption that all grades are commensurate. In this Article, we propose a statistical method for normalizing scores in the moot court context.
Recommended Citation
Edward K. Cheng and Scott J. Farmer,
A Normalized Scoring Model for Law School Competitions, 16 Green Bag 2D. 377
(2013)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty-publications/156