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Volumn 31, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 205-238

An empirical study on the research and critical evaluation skills of law students

Author keywords

Empirical research data; Law student research

Indexed keywords


EID: 84874297277     PISSN: 0270319X     EISSN: 1540949X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0270319X.2012.723571     Document Type: Article
Times cited : (5)

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    • By the end of October 2010, ninety-seven schools had access to WestlawNext. E-mail from Pedro de Lencastre, Academic Account Manager, Thomson Reuters, to Catherine Dunn, Ref. Libr., Georgetown Law Library (Nov. 2, 2011, 11:51 EST) (on file with author).
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    • As of September 2011, about fifty law schools had access to Lexis Advance. E-mail from Lori Sorenson, Account Rep., LexisNexis, to Michelle Wu (Feb. 10, 2012, 14:52 EST) (on file with author).
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    • The suggested sample size for this population would be 663 for a 99 percent confidence level and a 5 percent confidence interval (margin of error); note that a much larger sample size of 4,051 would achieve the same confidence level of 99 percent and would narrow down the confidence level to 2 percent. For determining confidence levels, we used a sample size calculator such as the one found at http://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm
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