Project: Law School Survey of Student Engagement

Support:  LSSSE is co-sponsored by The Association of American Law Schools and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Survey Director:  Dr. George Kuh, senior scholar at the Center for Postsecondary Research and Chancellor’s Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington directs the project. 

Survey Design: LSSSE was based on the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and educational research documenting the benefits of student engagement.  The survey instrument benefited from Input from our National Advisory Board and other legal education experts along with cognitive and field testing.

Administration: Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research in cooperation with the Indiana University Center for Survey Research

Goals:  LSSSE is designed to obtain, on an annual basis, valid reliable information about the law school experience from students at law schools across the country.  The results will provide an estimate of how law students spend their time and what they gain from attending law school. LSSSE survey items represent empirically confirmed good educational practices.  That is, they reflect behaviors by students and law schools that are associated with desired outcomes.
Law schools will use their data to identify aspects of the law school experience inside and outside the classroom that can be improved through changes in policies and practices more consistent with good practices in education.

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