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		<title>Retrieval practice protects against stress</title>
		<link>http://www.jennifermcooper.com/2016/12/10/retrieval-practice-protects-against-stress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2016 22:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stress, especially high stress testing like the LSAT, law school exams, and the bar exam, impairs our memory and decreases our performance. Some law students with text anxiety &#8220;blank out&#8221; during exams due to acute stress and cannot remember anything they learned. What if you could make your memory and all of the material that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Frequent Quizzing Makes Information Stick</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 02:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer M. Cooper]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The act of retrieving information from memory challenges the brain, it greases the wheels of memory. This greasing the wheel in studying using retrieval methods is hard work &#8211; creating and answering quizzes on information you are reading and learning instead of merely reading and re-reading. Creating and answering the quizzes feels uncomfortable and ineffective, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Failing Forward: Why Flunking Exams Is Actually a Good Thing</title>
		<link>http://www.jennifermcooper.com/2014/10/18/failing-forward-why-flunking-exams-is-actually-a-good-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2014 16:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer M. Cooper]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How about this heretical idea: Why not give the final exam on the first day of class? Research on pre-testing (testing/quizzing students on information not yet learned) shows that wrong answers on a pretest aren’t just useless guesses. These attempts actually change how we think about and store information, priming our brain for learning to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Students’ Illusions of Competence Lead to Ineffective Study &amp; Learning Behaviors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2014 00:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer M. Cooper]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Henry Roediger III]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Karpicke]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nate Kornell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Illusions distort our senses, create false ideas, beliefs, and expectations, and lead us to see things that do not really exist.  Illusions of competence in study and learning behaviors leads to early termination of learning, overly ambitious expectations, and unfortunately, poor performance. Modern undergraduate students are overly confident in their study and learning skills. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Mapping the Law &#8211; Using Visual Mindmaps in Legal Education</title>
		<link>http://www.jennifermcooper.com/2014/10/15/mapping-the-law-using-visual-mindmaps-in-legal-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 21:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer M. Cooper]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Try to remember something, to pull something out of the recesses of your memory. For example, what you did with your significant other on your last anniversary or more specifically, what gift you gave your significant other at that anniversary. Having trouble pulling it up? (The brain is not a computer after all). Now try [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>SeRiouS Learning Platform: Spaced Repetition Bar Study App</title>
		<link>http://www.jennifermcooper.com/2014/09/29/serious-learning-platform-spaced-repetition-bar-study-app/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jennifermcooper.com/2014/09/29/serious-learning-platform-spaced-repetition-bar-study-app/#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2014 18:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer M. Cooper]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A law professor from Suffolk, Gabe Teninbaum, has harnessed the research findings on spaced repetition and retrieval to create a bar study app that spaces flashcards and asks for judgments of learning. Teninbaum claims his product, SeRiouS, improves memory retention to 92%. The content is supplied by 600+ flashcards created by law professors on topics most [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Fail Your Way to Amazing Things (Even the Bar Exam)</title>
		<link>http://www.jennifermcooper.com/2013/11/20/fail-your-way-to-amazing-things-even-the-bar-exam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jennifermcooper.com/2013/11/20/fail-your-way-to-amazing-things-even-the-bar-exam/#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2013 05:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer M. Cooper]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legal educators and law students can borrow some ideas about failure from the corporate world. In a recent article on Forbes.com, Ekaterina Walter examines the nature of &#8220;failure.&#8221; Failure is a delay, not a definition. In many ways, each failure is a unique opportunity to learn &#8211; what didn’t work? In academic success, I coached [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Law School GPA, Not LSAT Or Undergrad GPA, Predicts Bar Passage</title>
		<link>http://www.jennifermcooper.com/2013/09/15/law-school-gpa-not-lsat-or-undergrad-gpa-predicts-bar-passage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jennifermcooper.com/2013/09/15/law-school-gpa-not-lsat-or-undergrad-gpa-predicts-bar-passage/#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2013 18:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer M. Cooper]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an article by Nicholas Georgakoplous, &#8220;Bar Passage: GPA and LSAT, not Bar Reviews,&#8221; law school GPA was found to have a very strong relation to bar passage compared to LSAT and undergraduate GPA. Further, the learning in small and elective courses seemed to be significant for bar passage compared to mandatory 1L courses, legal education [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Advice For Students Preparing For Upcoming Bar Results: Perspective &amp; Planning</title>
		<link>http://www.jennifermcooper.com/2013/09/12/advice-for-students-preparing-for-upcoming-bar-results-perspective-planning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jennifermcooper.com/2013/09/12/advice-for-students-preparing-for-upcoming-bar-results-perspective-planning/#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 21:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer M. Cooper]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s that time of year when bar exam results are either rolling in or looming on the horizon. Lisa Young, Director of Bar Studies at Seattle University School of Law, offers some solid advice for bar candidates waiting for upcoming results: With less than a week before the release of bar results, I offer these [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Know if You DON&#8217;T Know</title>
		<link>http://www.jennifermcooper.com/2013/02/16/how-to-know-if-you-dont-know/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jennifermcooper.com/2013/02/16/how-to-know-if-you-dont-know/#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 06:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer M. Cooper]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are not good at judging the effectiveness of our own learning. When information seems easy to recall, we develop “illusions of competence” or “illusions of learning” which hamper our true ability to learn. Over-confidence in our learning leads to early termination of studying,  resulting in poor academic performance. Ways to avoid overconfidence from Annie [&#8230;]]]></description>
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