There is a statistically significant positive correlation between the amount a student writes on a first-year essay exam and the grade on the exam. On average, the more a student says, the better she does. This result holds independent of a student’s typing speed.
— Professors Kif Augustine-Adams and James Rasband of BYU Law and Professor Candace Berrett of BYU, in their new working paper, “Speed Matters,” where they report that first-year law students who read and analyze information more quickly than their peers tend to receive higher scores on exams. Typing speed was not a statistically significant factor, according to Professor Berrett.
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