期刊全称 | Assessing the Viva in Higher Education | 期刊简称 | Chasing Moments of T | 影响因子2023 | Stephen Dobson | 视频video | | 发行地址 | Argues that the viva in higher education empowers examiner and student alike; both gain greater self-understanding.Discusses why the viva remains globally important and yet we know so little about it. | 学科分类 | The Enabling Power of Assessment | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | .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 academic vivas, where a judgment of oral performance is required to gain entry into a profession or community of scholars..In a time when there are scandals about students selling essays to other students, the viva provides a fertile ground for probing the student to see whether they are in fact the authors of the work being assessed and know its content and how to think cognitively or otherwise..Given that we actually know so little about the viva, the book theorises the viva based on a unique sample of vivas that have been filmed or in which the author himself has been participant, and discusses why its format is so different in Anglo-Saxon languages and Latin and other languages..The book offers educational policy-makers and examiners a trade-off between arguments in support of the viva and the demand for other, ever more cost-effective forms of assessment as the numbers of both undergrad | Pindex | Book 2018 |
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