2015 Annual
Questionnaire
Training
July 17, 2015
Conrad Hilton
Chicago, IL
2015 Annual Questionnaire Training
Introductions:
• Bill Adams – Deputy Managing Director
• Scott Norberg – Accreditation Project Director for Data
Policy and Collection
• Ken Williams – Data Specialist
• Bojan Stankovic – Paralegal
Agenda
• 2015 Annual Questionnaire
• Background
• Updates/Changes to Annual Questionnaire
• Changes to Online System
• ABAQuest web-based application
• Functionality
• Reports
• Important Deadlines
• Q&A
Annual Questionnaire
 Required of every approved or
provisionally approved law school, and
law schools seeking provisional approval
 Requirement of the Department of
Education
 Critical part of Accreditation Process
 Facilitates streamlined input for Site
Evaluation Questionnaire
Annual Questionnaire
• Downloadable editable copies of each
part of the Annual Questionnaire can
be found on the Questionnaire
webpage
• www.americanbar.org/legaled Then click
on Questionnaires
• Can also find
• Links to ABAQuest and Major Change
Questionnaires
• Upcoming events
• All Questionnaires with deadlines
• Dean’s signature pages
• Training Materials
Annual Questionnaire
• Data Reporting
• Take-off reports
• Section website Legal Education Statistics
• Ad Hoc data request
Annual Questionnaire (AQ)
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Made up of 7 Parts
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
School Information
Admissions & Enrollment
Library Information
Scholarships
Faculty Profiles
Fiscal Information
Foreign Programs
Updates/Changes to the AQ
• Due date - October 15th moving forward
• Part I - School Information
• Curricular Offerings
• Part II - Admissions & Enrollment
• Non-LSAT Admissions (503-3 report)
• Academic Attrition table
• Part III - Library Information
• No Changes
Updates/Change to the AQ Cont.
• Part IV - Scholarships
• No Changes
• Part V - Faculty Profile
• Elimination of a number of questions
• Part VI - Fiscal Information
• No Changes
• Part VII - Foreign Programs
• Student Study Section
ABAQuest
• Background
• Contains the Annual, Site Evaluation and
Employment Questionnaires.
• Reporting systems: 509 Standard Report
System, Employment Summary Report System,
Take Odd Reporting System
• While the website will have scheduled,
announced maintenance, the website is
accessible 24/7 from any computer with an
internet connection
ABAQuest
• Functionality
• User Ids and Levels of Access
• Each school will have an Admin user ID and password
• Has full read/write access to all portions of the questionnaires
• Only Admin user ID can create/update user ids
• Only Admin user ID can submit finalized Annual Questionnaire
• Create New User IDs
• Required fields
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User ID
Password
Name
Email Address
Status indicator
• Active vs. Inactive
ABAQuest
• Level(s) of Access
• Default access is full write/read access to all
sections of the Annual and Site Evaluation
Questionnaires
• Write – can edit any data element and can
lock/unlock pages
• Read – can view any page, but cannot edit
• Levels of access can be mixed and matched
• If no level is selected, there is NO access to
that section
AQ – Home Page
AQ – Part IV Standard
509 Conditional Scholarships
AQ – Part IV Standard
509 Conditional Scholarships
AQ - Part I
• Curricular Offerings
• Elimination of distinction between Full and Part-Time
programs (only one column now)
• Change in wording of law clinic questions
• Bar Passage
• You must account for at least 70% of the schools’
graduates who took a bar exam for the first time in
2014
AQ - Part I Curricular Offerings
AQ - Part I Bar Passage
Where a graduate took the bar examination
twice in one administration (e.g., twice in
February 2012 or twice in July 2012), the
graduate shall be reported as having passed
the bar if the graduate passed the exam in
either or both of the jurisdictions, provided that
the school is reporting bar pass results for a
jurisdiction in which the graduate passed. If the
graduate failed the bar exam in both
jurisdictions, the graduate shall be reported
once as not having passed, again provided
that the school is reporting bar pass results for a
jurisdiction in which the graduate did not
pass. To reiterate, a graduate is counted as
one passer even if the graduate passed the
exam in both jurisdictions.
AQ - Part I Bar Passage
Bar Exam
Outcomes
Pass, Pass
Number of
Takers
1 Taker
Reported as
Pass, Fail
1 Taker
1 Passer*
Fail, Fail
1 Taker
0 Passers**
1 Passer*
* provided that the school is reporting bar pass results for a jurisdiction in which
the graduate passed.
** provided that the school is reporting bar pass results for a jurisdiction in which
the graduate did not pass
AQ – Part I Bar Passage
AQ – Part I Bar Passage
AQ – Part I Bar Passage
AQ – Part I Bar Passage
AQ – Part I Bar Passage
AQ – Part II Admissions
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Other/Not Reported column
Matriculant Upload/Entry
Non-LSAT Admissions (503-3 report)
Academic Attrition table
AQ – Part II Admissions
AQ – Part II Matriculant Upload
AQ – Part II Matriculant Upload
AQ – Part II Matriculant Upload
AQ – Part II Individual Matriculant Entry
AQ - Part II Non-LSAT Admissions
AQ - Part II Attrition
AQ – Part V Profiles
• Number of questions were removed from the profiles
section
• The Admin Results section has been slimmed down
AQ – Part V Profiles
AQ – Part V Multiple Profile Update
AQ – Part V Admin Results
AQ – Part VI
• Operating Expenditures
• This section has been eliminated. However, schools
undergoing a site visit will be required to submit
expenditures information for the current and past two
years.
• Once you click the “Move Next” button you should
have access to the section
AQ – Part VI Operating Expenditures
AQ – Part VII Student Study Abroad
• Student Study section changes
ABAQuest
• Reports
• The
icon prints the entire part of the
AQ (e.g., if you click on
while in Part
I you will print all of Part I)
• The
icon will only print the section you
are in (e.g., if you click on
while in Bar
Passage of Part I you will print the Bar
Passage section)
• Printouts of individual profiles
• Faculty Resource Summary Report
• Administrator Resource Summary Report
Things to remember
• The Annual Questionnaire is due
October 15, 2015
• Totals
• Sub Totals are in RED
• Grand Totals are in BOLDED RED
• Once all parts of the AQ are complete
the Administrative representative and
Dean from your school will review the
data and submit the AQ in the
“Admin” section of the site
Where can I get help?
• ABAQuestionnaire Listserve
• www.americanbar.org/legaled and click on
Questionnaire link
• Contact Ken Williams at
kenneth.williams@americanbar.org or 312.988.6739
• Contact Bojan Stankovic at
bojan.stankovic@americanbar.org or 312.988.5303
• Access Questionnaires http://www.americanbar.org/groups/legal_education/re
sources/questionnaire.html
• To access the Standards online http://www.americanbar.org/groups/legal_education/re
sources/standards.html
• To access the Guidance memos http://www.americanbar.org/groups/legal_education/a
ccreditation/consultants_memos.html