Students with high initial performance profit more from area-specific practice while students with low initial performance profit more from general practice¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? The positive interaction of area-specific exam experience with initial performance indicates that those with higher initial performance profit more from area-specific practice. → Glöckner 2013 q3 i? The negative interaction of general exam experience with initial performance indicates that those who initially perform poorly benefit relatively more from general practice. → Glöckner 2013

Evidence¶

Glöckner 2013¶

Glöckner, A., Towfigh, E., & Traxler, C. (2013). Development of legal expertise. Instructional Science, 41, 989–1007. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-013-9266-5

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Regression with interaction terms on 57,188 observations. "The negative interaction with the linear effect indicates that the established effect of domain-unspecific experience due to taking exams outside the specific area-of-law is smaller for persons with higher as compared to lower initial performance." The area-specific effect "also replicates in this specification" and "interacts positively with initial performance," meaning "those with a higher initial performance profit more from area-of-law specific practice."

"The positive interaction with the squared term indicates that the concave functional form is mainly driven by persons with lower initial performance and that the performance curve becomes more linear (and even convex) with increasing initial performance."

Discussion¶

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