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For many years, the Uniform Bar Examination has been old style, with bar candidates utilizing paper-and-pencil examination books. However beginning with the primary administration of the NextGen UBE subsequent yr, the check might be completely carried out on the examinees’ private computer systems.
Historical past has proven that know-how used for the bar examination might be crammed with snafus. Pandemic-era experiments for distant bar examination administrations had hiccups—and naturally, California’s attempt in February to launch a brand new, tech-dependent examination was nothing in need of a catastrophe.
So the Nationwide Convention of Bar Examiners has been fastidiously treading by means of a maze of tech challenges, figuring out that nothing can go unsuitable with the high-stakes examination.
On this episode of the Authorized Rebels Podcast, the ABA Journal’s Julianne Hill talks with Kara Smith, the NCBE’s chief product officer. It’s her job to get the tech concerned precisely proper for the brand new examination. They focus on how the NCBE will hold the examination safe, what backup plans are in place, and find out how to hold check days freed from tech-induced drama.
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In This Podcast:
Kara Smith. (Photograph courtesy of the Nationwide Convention of Bar Examiners)
Kara Smith is the chief product officer on the Nationwide Convention of Bar Examiners. She has more than 15 years of expertise within the evaluation business. Smith beforehand was the vice chairman of product innovation and improvement at Instructional Testing Service, the place she led groups within the creation of AI-enabled assessments and studying options. She has a PhD in academic analysis, measurement and analysis, in addition to a grasp of arts diploma in educating from Boston School.