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Research

The Law School Admission Council Research Grant Program funds research on a wide variety of topics related to the mission of LSAC. Specifically included in the program’s scope are projects investigating precursors to legal training, selection into law schools, legal education, and the legal profession. To be eligible for funding, a research project must inform either the process of selecting law students or legal education itself in a demonstrable way. Proposals are judged on the importance of the questions addressed, their relevance to the mission of LSAC, the quality of the research designs, and the capacity of the researchers to carry out the project. During the 2009–2011 biennium, the LSAC Test Development and Research Committee approved the following reports for publication, including internal staff research, research funded through the Research Grant Program, and contract research.

RESEARCH REPORTS

GRANT REPORTS

Research Report 09-02 Distributions of Kullback-Leibler Divergence and Its Application for the LSAT Dmitry I. Belov and Ronald D. Armstrong Research Report 10-01 Application of the M-Index for the LSAT Dmitry I. Belov and Ronald D. Armstrong Research Report 10-02 Application of the VM-Index for the LSAT Dmitry I. Belov Research Report 11-01 Optimizing Information Using the Expectation- Maximization Algorithm in Item Response Theory Alexander Weissman Research Report 11-02 Assessing the Impact of Topic Interest on Comprehension Processes Joseph P. Magliano, Amanda M. Durik, and Janet K. Holt

Grant Reports 10-01 The Educational Diversity Project: Analysis of Longitudinal and Concurrent Student and Faculty Data Charles E. Daye, Abigail T. Panter, Walter R. Allen, and Linda F. Wightman Grant Report 11-01 From 1L to 401K: A Pilot Study of the Later Stages of Lawyers’ Careers Nancy Reichman

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