{"id":159,"date":"2018-09-13T14:29:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T21:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kern.org\/student-events\/?page_id=159"},"modified":"2018-09-13T14:29:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T21:29:22","slug":"benefits","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kern.org\/student-events\/history-social-science\/mock-trial\/benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to students participating in the 2000 Mock Trials:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"lists\">\n<li>83.3% of student respondents would recommend that other students participate in Mock Trials. Improvements in critical thinking about complex issues, presentation skills, teamwork, cooperation, and confidence were all noted as increasing as a result of participating in Mock Trials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to educators, parents, and attorney coaches participating in the 2000 Mock Trials:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"lists\">\n<li>Students\u2019 basic knowledge about law and the legal system increased significantly. Other areas showing marked improvement included: reading and writing skills, synthesis of information, presentation skills, participation skills, confidence and self-esteem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to students participating in the 2000 Mock Trials: 83.3% of student respondents would recommend that other students participate in Mock Trials. Improvements in critical thinking about complex issues, presentation skills, teamwork, cooperation, and confidence were all noted as increasing as a result of participating in Mock Trials. According to educators, parents, and attorney coaches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":37,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-159","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/student-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/student-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/student-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/student-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/student-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/student-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/student-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/student-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}