Professor Titichia Mitchell Jackson’s research featured in AccessLex Institute’s Raising the Bar

CARLISLE, Pa.—Professor Titichia Mitchell Jackson’s research on growth-mindset learning and bar exam success is featured in the Fall 2025 issue of AccessLex Institute’s Raising the Bar (Vol. 8, Issue 4).

Her piece highlights how shifting from fixed-mindset assumptions to a growth-mindset framework can strengthen legal-education outcomes, improve student resilience, and support equitable bar-passage rates—especially as schools prepare for the NextGen Bar Exam. Professor Jackson’s work offers practical strategies for embedding formative assessment, metacognitive skill-building, and adaptive learning across the curriculum.

This publication reflects her ongoing commitment to evidence-based academic success initiatives and to advancing innovation in bar preparation and legal education.

Read the issue by clicking here.

Professor Titichia Mitchell Jackson brings both legal practice experience and the practice of applying cognitive psychology in the classroom to her teaching. She collaborates with faculty to incorporate the learning concept of spaced repetition throughout Penn State Dickinson Law’s curriculum while training law students for the rigors of law school, the bar exam, and the practice of law. Professor Jackson teaches the Fundamental Skills for the Bar Exam course and Penn State Dickinson Law’s summer supplemental bar preparation program. Professor Jackson provides individual academic success counseling to students. Prior to joining Penn State Dickinson Law, Professor Jackson taught courses and served as the director of bar preparation and support for North Carolina Central University School of Law and served as director of legal education for BARBRI, Inc.