Fleurie Nievelstein receives Best Paper by a New Investigator Award, 2009

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has decided to award the 2009 Best Paper by a New Investigator Award to Fleurie Nievelstein, researcher at CELSTEC.

She receives this award for her paper titled “Learning to Solve Legal Cases: The Effects of Instructional Support” which she presented at the AERA meeting 2009 in San Diego (april 2009).

Education in professions
The Best Paper by a new Investigator Award is yearly awarded by Division I of the AERA: education in the professions. From several nominations, a committee of five persons choose the paper of Nievelstein as the best paper. She will receive the award during the next year annual meeting of the AERA.

Interventions in law schools
Phd-Student Fleurie Nievelstein and colleagues investigated educational interventions in law school that would support more effective learning related to reasoning about legal cases, which is considered to be one of the most important activities in the legal profession.
The study provides important information about scaffolding in curriculum that can help law students learn more effectively by providing instructional supports that allow them to spend more time on tasks directly related to primary learning objectives.

AERA
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) is the national interdisciplinary research association for approximately 25,000 scholars who undertake research in education. Founded in 1916, AERA aims to advance knowledge about education, to encourage scholarly inquiry related to education, and to promote the use of research to improve education and serve the public good.