Assessing the Viva in Higher Education Chasing Moments of Truth /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Dobson, Stephen (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: The Enabling Power of Assessment, 6
• Θέματα: Assessment.; Higher education.; Education-Philosophy.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.; Higher Education.; Educational Philosophy.

This book makes the case for a revival in interest in the viva. As an oral assessment of a treatise or dissertation or of a student's performance in art or dance the viva has a long history dating back to the time of the Greeks. It can be found today in the form of professional, vocational and...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• 1. The Life and Death of the Viva
• 2. The Global Under-theorisation of the Viva
• 3. A Method to Theorise and Investigate the Social Practice of the Viva
• 4. The Master Degree Viva 'Talked into Being'
• 5. Challenging the Genre of the Doctoral Viva
• 6. A Validity Argument for the Social Practice of the Viva
• 7. Refining the Validity Argument Model: Examples from Bachelor and Master Degree Vivas
• 8. (Re-)theorising the Viva
• Glossary
• Appendices. .