Assessing the Viva in Higher Education - Dobson, Stephen

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Auteur(s) : Dobson, Stephen

Editeur : Springer International Publishing

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 31/07/2018

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 220

Expédition : 341

Dimensions : 23.5 x 15.5 x 1.3

ISBN : 9783319877006

Résumé :

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.?

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Biographie:
Dr Azra Moeed MNZM is an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Education at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand where she was lecturing in Science Teacher Education until recently. Her research interests include science education, science teacher education, and environmental education. She has a particular interest in classroom research, has published in international journals and has authored several books about teaching and learning of science investigations in schools. Azra is an active contributor to international and national research projects and has received the National Tertiary Excellence in Teaching award for 2016. She was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her service to science education and community in 2020. Professor Stephen Dobson is Dean of Education and the Arts at CQUniversity in Australia. He is also Professor II in the Centre of Lifelong at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. A common theme in his work issocial and cultural inclusion. His most recent book takes up this theme: Learning Inclusion in a Digital Age. Finding a Voice and Belonging with the Disadvantaged. He has also published on learning cities, assessing the viva in higher education and transforming assessment in education through language games. Sankari Saha is a trained teacher in New Zealand and has been teaching for over 15 years in early childhood education centres. Sankari graduated in India and trained as a secondary school teacher, teaching there for several years before coming to New Zealand. She retrained as an ECE teacher and has developed her expertise in teaching science to children who are younger than five years of age. She is a passionate teacher who has an infectious enthusiasm for science teaching and learning....

Sommaire:

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.?