The Logic Doctor Is In: Using Structure Training and Metacognitive Monitoring to Cultivate the Ability to Self-Diagnose Legal Analysis Skills

摘要

The goal of the Logic Doctor is to provide students with a chance to develop transferable problem-solving skills using a repeatable technique based on structure training and metacognitive monitoring-approaches designed to foster the development and recognition of specific thinking skills. The method serves the structure training function by exposing the conceptual infrastructure common to many legal problems, thereby cuing the student to call into play the appropriate sequence of thought steps, in response to that structure.