Next Generation Legal Researchers: Implementing Critical Information Literacy Through the ACRL Framework to Ensure Student Success on the NextGen Bar Exam
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
2025
Keywords
educational psychology and metacognition, teaching methods
Abstract
Students who began law school in the fall of 2023 could be among the first to encounter the NextGen Bar Exam. Examinees will now be required to demonstrate proficiency in legal research to become practicing attorneys. This change provides an opportunity to evaluate the pedagogy employed to prepare students for the bar exam and beyond. Incorporating critical information literacy into the legal research curriculum will enable students to master the analytic and metacognitive skills that will be tested on the NextGen Bar Exam. Law librarians can incorporate these skills into legal research instruction by implementing the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.
