Helena Whalen-Bridge is Associate Professor of Law, National University of Singapore. A recipient of multiple competitive research grants and the 2019 Teresa Godwin Phelps Award for Scholarship in Legal Communication, her research interests include legal ethics and access to justice, legal narrative, and legal education. Publications in legal education include “Persuasive Legal Narrative: Articulating Ethical Standards” (Legal Ethics, 2019), “The Rhetoric of Corruption and The Law School Curriculum” (Legal Education in Asia, 2018), and “A Common Law Fly on the Transsystemic Wall: Observing the Integrated Method at McGill Faculty of Law” (The Law Teacher, 2016). Helena is the recipient of NUS Faculty of Law Teaching Awards. Together with colleague Stanley Yeo, she initiated Teaching Seminars which are now a staple of the Law Faculty, and she is a longstanding member of the Law Faculty’s Teaching Excellence Committee. Helena is also an Expert with the UNODC’s Education for Justice project.
Assessment Fun: Tailoring Assessments to Learning Goals
Abstract:
Assessments for law students such as exams and research papers tend to follow well-worn paths, with structures not necessarily relevant to learning goals. To put fun into assessments and to increase their relevance as a learning tool, the paper suggests thinking further about the connection between learning goals or outcomes, and assessments. The paper will review sui generis assessments in one of the author’s elective courses, Legal Argument & Narrative, and share thoughts about how to generate assessments for other subject matter material.