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Law students report using laptops in class helps them to engage, think critically.(NEWSWATCH)

Women in Higher Education

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When used appropriately, laptops can lead to student gains in critical and analytical thinking, according to the 2008 Law School Survey of Student Engagement.

While professors may get fed up with students using laptop to get on Facebook or shop on eBay, students who use laptops for class activities are more likely to synthesize concepts from class and work to meet faculty expectations.

Researchers surveyed 29,000 students at 85 law schools for the study. Student feedback is important in law school, said George Kuh, director of the survey. Law school is "steeped in tradition, which in and of itself isn't a bad thing, but that tradition did not take into account or even consider student reports of what ...

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