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Resources for Associate Deans
At West Academic we aim to make it easy for your faculty to teach and easy for your students to learn. Our suite of offerings is continually expanding to fit the evolving teaching and learning styles of law faculty and students. Whatever is on the horizon for you, your faculty, and your students, we want to partner with you to achieve your goals.
Whether you are looking to help your new professors and adjuncts find the right materials for their class, searching for a way to incorporate formative assessment into your school, building an online masters or hybrid-JD program, or looking for ways to help your students save money, we are happy to help you find what you need.
Our knowledgeable Account Managers are here to:
- Provide you with complimentary access to former Associate Dean Sandra Simpson's new book, From the Associate Dean's Desk: An Essential Handbook and the accompanying resources designed to help you train adjuncts, create institutional assessment reports, and more
- Help your new professors, adjuncts, or faculty teaching a new course find the right materials for their class
- Help your academic support team manage student performance and identify academically at-risk students early in their career
- Help you comply with the ABA standards with robust formative assessment tools that do not burden faculty
- Provide you with complimentary review access to our Interactive Grammar and Usage Assessment and Interactive Legal Citation Assessment
- Find materials that work well for your online masters or hybrid-JD programs
- Save your students money with a discount code for our store
- Tell you about how a subscription to West Academic Study Aids lets your faculty add skills exercises and other content to their syllabus at no additional cost to your students
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT TOOLS | ONLINE MASTERS AND HYBRID-JD PROGRAMS | WEST ACADEMIC CASEBOOK COLLECTION | WEST ACADEMIC STUDY AIDS | TEACHING MATERIALS FOR YOUR PROFESSORS AND STUDENT DISCOUNTS | ASSOCIATE DEANS HANDBOOK
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT TOOLS
CasebookPlus™
Our CasebookPlus platform provides formative student self-assessment at the classroom level, giving students the opportunity to test their understanding of the material while they're learning it in class without burdening your faculty. Faculty do not have to change their teaching methods or monitor student self-assessment for students to benefit from all CasebookPlus has to offer.
CasebookPlus is anchored by more than 4,000 multiple-choice, short answer, and essay questions keyed to our most widely adopted casebooks. Excerpts from the Hornbook Series provide helpful explanations while sample answers and expert commentary are provided for short answer and essay questions.
Faculty who wish to view their students' progress and results have access to optional customized reporting and a Quiz Editor that allows them to add, suppress, or time-release quiz questions.
CasebookPlus is available in all 1L and select upper-level subjects and keyed to over 150 casebooks. Your students can buy the CasebookPlus option of their assigned text and utilize these resources on their own or your faculty can choose to adopt the CasebookPlus version of their text. Digital-only options are available to students who rent or purchase a used text.
Contact your Account Manager to learn more.
WEST ACADEMIC ASSESSMENT
Building upon our CasebookPlus platform, we've created an easy-to-use digital school-wide subscription designed to help you and your faculty measure student learning and promote compliance with the ABA Learning and Outcome Standards. West Academic Assessment is the most comprehensive product for formative assessment that will help your students succeed during all three years of law school.
West Academic Assessment includes access to CasebookPlus content and quizzing tools plus additional quizzes, available by subject, to accompany any casebook adopted. Additionally, students gain access to Interactive Grammar and Usage and Interactive Legal Citation Assessments*, providing them with a self-assessment tool that tests and teaches these crucial legal skills.
We are enhancing our platform to soon include new content and tools designed to help you administer 1L cumulative assessments that measures student learning and retention of first year course material. This set of formative assessment questions, covering six 1L subjects, is designed to be taken at the end of the 1L year or beginning of the 2L year and can be used to identify students who would benefit from academic support. Questions can be customized and curated to work with your curriculum. Contact your West Academic Account Manager to learn more.
800-313-9378
accountmanager@westacademic.com
*Interactive Grammar and Usage and Interactive Legal Citation Assessments are included with a West Academic Assessment subscription, available individually for $25, bundled together for just $40 (a 20% discount), or available for school-wide subscription on their own with an additional discount.
ONLINE MASTERS AND HYBRID-JD PROGRAMS
If you're building an online masters or hybrid-JD program and want to know how West Academic materials will work with your curriculum, please contact your West Academic Account Manager so we can help determine what's best for you. We are working with our authors to provide new materials and enhance our classics with technology that plays well online, including:
Murphy and Nickles' Unauthorized Practice of Law for Nonlawyers is a foundation offering for legal masters students. It includes video lessons and self-assessment quizzes that can be used on their own for course credit or incorporated into an already-designed course.
Pomeroy and Hague's Business Associations: An Online Course for Masters Students provides video materials for a fully-designed course that can be easily incorporated into an online curriculum.
We have also enhanced our traditional casebooks, such as Merritt and Simmons' widely used Learning Evidence, with video and audio modules that work beautifully as part of an online course. And the formative assessment tools in our CasebookPlus platform provide an easy way for faculty to monitor student engagement and performance even when students aren't coming to campus for class.
We look forward to working with you to ensure our materials deliver what you need for the future.
WEST ACADEMIC CASEBOOK COLLECTION
West Academic is excited to partner with you to provide lower-cost materials and classroom-tested formative assessment to your students. The West Academic Casebook Collection is a flexible school-wide offering designed to help ensure students have all the required materials needed for class.
The West Academic Casebook Collection provides your students with access to all of the West Academic Publishing and Foundation Press® materials adopted for their courses. Students at subscribing schools will receive downloadable eBooks of required materials along with the option to purchase low-cost spiralbound versions of their books. These flexible options will ensure all students have access to their materials on the first day of class in the format that best suits their learning.
Schools that purchase the West Academic Casebook Collection also gain full access to West Academic Assessment, a comprehensive school-wide formative assessment offering designed to help schools comply with ABA Standards and identify at-risk students. West Academic Assessment includes:
- Over 5,000 multiple-choice formative self-assessment questions keyed to West Academic Publishing and Foundation Press casebooks, or available by subject to work with any casebooks your faculty already adopt
- Short answer and essay questions, with sample answers and commentary to allow students to self-assess their work
- A 1L Cumulative Assessment tool that allows your school to measure student learning and retention of first-year subjects
All West Academic Assessment questions are customizable, allowing your faculty flexibility in tailoring assessments to their courses.
Three options are available for Fall 2020 classes and we are eager to work with you to find the right one for your school.
1L Casebook Collection
This collection provides all of your 1L students with downloadable eBook versions of all West Academic Publishing and Foundation Press titles adopted for their courses along with the option to purchase low-cost spiralbound versions of the materials they prefer to access in print. With this option, your entire school has access to the formative assessments in West Academic Assessment.
Full School Casebook Collection
This collection provides all 1L and upper level students at your school with downloadable eBook versions of all Foundation Press and West Academic Publishing titles adopted for their courses, along with the option to purchase low-cost spiralbound versions of the materials they prefer to access in print. This option provides your entire school with access to the formative assessments in West Academic Assessment.
West Academic Assessment
This option provides all students at your school with West Academic Assessment, along with the ability for students to purchase downloadable ebooks adopted for their courses at a 45% discount off list print price. Students who opt to buy their materials in this format also receive the option to purchase low-cost spiralbound versions of the materials they prefer to access in print.
Pricing for West Academic's Casebook Collection and Assessment tools are based on the individual needs at each school. Contact us for your school's customized quote today!
800-313-9378
accountmanager@westacademic.com
WEST ACADEMIC STUDY AIDS
A subscription to West Academic Study Aids provides your students with 24/7 digital access to hundreds of titles covering virtually every law school course, and now includes supplemental practical skills titles, Law Stories, and Global Issues, allowing faculty to assign bits of content to their syllabus so they can supplement their class with skills exercises or a global perspective at no additional cost to their students.
This subscription also includes:
- Hornbooks and treatises
- Intro to law school and academic success titles, including the highly praised 1L of a Ride Video Course
- Popular overviews including Nutshells and Short & Happy Guides
- Audio lectures, and, new this year, audio versions of some of our Short & Happy Guides and Career Guides
- Bar exam prep titles and career guides
We are committed to making West Academic Study Aids more useful for your students and faculty. We are continually adding new content and expanding the options for accessing it.
TEACHING MATERIALS FOR YOUR PROFESSORS
West Academic Account Managers are a great resource for your new professors, adjunct faculty, or faculty teaching a new course. Our Account Managers are happy to help faculty find the right materials for their course along with the accompanying teaching resources and digital tools, provide review copies, or provide permissions to reprint select materials. Find your West Academic Account Manager here or contact us:
800-313-9378
accountmanager@westacademic.com
Your Account Manager can also provide you with a school-specific discount code to share with your students giving them 15% off at store.westacademic.com.
FROM THE ASSOCIATE DEAN'S DESK: AN ESSENTIAL HANDBOOK by former Associate Dean Sandra Simpson, Associate professor at Gonzaga University School of Law
As a new or existing associate dean at a law school, it is difficult to find resources to help you excel and enjoy your job. This book, From the Associate Dean's Desk: An Essential Handbook, written by former Associate Dean Sandra Simpson, Associate Professor at Gonzaga University School of Law, who served as Associate Dean from 2013 through 2017, covers everything from personal matters such as balancing life and work to technical matters such as scheduling courses and handling honor code issues. This book is accompanied by various resources such as PowerPoint presentations to help associate deans train adjuncts and examples of institutional assessment reports to help associate deans comply with the ABA standards. This handbook provides information about many subjects conveniently presented in one book with helpful online resources.
Contact author Sandra Simpson at simpsons@gonzaga.edu
Request a password below to download this helpful handbook and the accompanying resources.
Associate Dean Resources
 From the Associate Dean's Desk: An Essential Handbook
Instructions for Adjunct Teaching Evaluation
Teaching Evaluation of Adjunct Faculty Form
Business Meeting & Training for Adjuncts
Multiple Choice Questions Outline
Example Outcomes and Competencies
Teaching Millennials PPT
Assessment Workshop for Faculty PPT
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