Outcomes-Based Education One Course at a Time: My Experiment with Estates and Trusts

Accreditation in the Professions

“…Noteworthy pressures to reform stemmed from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, an articulation of best practices in legal education by the academy, and a report from the Outcome Measures Committee of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. These reports encouraged law schools to rework the provision of legal education by moving toward an outcomes-based system (Grose, 2012).…”

“…In 2010, the ABA recommended replacing inputs with outputs for accreditation purposes (Grose, 2012). The proposed standards not only identified general outcomes that would be required of all schools but also aimed to support individual schools in developing additional mission-related student outcomes (Duncan, 2010).…”