Assessing the viva in higher education [electronic resource] : chasing moments of truth / Stephen Dobson.
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 acade...
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[2018]
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| Series: | Enabling power of assessment ;
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; The Etymology of the Viva; The Life and Death of the Viva; Validity; Theorising the Viva; 1 The Life and Death of the Viva; Abstract; Typology or Genealogy?; The Viva in the Time of the Greeks and Greco-Romans; The Death of the Viva as Public Disputation; The Rebirth of the Viva in the Middle Ages; The Viva in Modern Times; The Contemporary Debate on the Viva; The Postmodern Viva; Foregrounding Debate on the Future of the Academic and Professional Viva; References; 2 The Global Under-Theorisation of the Viva; Abstract; The Professional Viva.
- The Academic Doctoral VivaComparing the Research Frames for the Professional Viva and the Academic Doctoral Viva; Researcher Frames on the Viva in North America and Non-English-Speaking Countries; Summary; References; 3 A Method to Theorise and Investigate the Social Practice of the Viva; Abstract; The Viva as a Functional Event; The Viva as a Social Practice; The Viva as an Existential Experience; Methodology; A Qualitative Approach; Selecting the Vivas to be Filmed and Generalisation; Transcription; Analysis of the Empirical Data: Stage 1; Analysis of the Empirical Data: Stage 2.
- Analysis of the Empirical Data: Stage 3Summary; References; 4 The Master Degree Viva 'Talked into Being'; Abstract; What Evidence Was There of Language Games?; Why Bother with Conversation Analysis?; The Coordination of Talk with Tools and Corporeal Movements; Narratives in the Final Stage of the Analysis; Extrinsic Narratives in Different Phases of the Viva; Summary; References; 5 Challenging the Genre of the Doctoral Viva; Abstract; Clarifying the Research Design; What Have You Learnt?; Challenging the Ontological Space of the Doctoral Viva.
- The Relationship Between the Textual Dissertation and Its Defence in a VivaReconceptualising the Ontological Space of Being of the Dissertation and Viva; Summary of the Chapter; References; 6 A Validity Argument for the Social Practice of the Viva; Abstract; A Short Exegesis on the Theory of Assessment Validation; Theoretical Rationales as Constructs; Generalisability and Construct Validity; Values; Social and Personal Consequences; Operationalising Messick Towards a Validity Argument for the Viva; Judgments; What Goes on When Judgments Are Made?
- Can We Say in More Detail What Is Taking Place When Examiners in the Viva Make Their Judgments?A Validity Argument for the Viva; References; 7 Refining the Validity Argument Model: Examples from Bachelor and Master Degree Vivas; Abstract; Refining the Validity Argument Model: Some Preliminary Points; Case 1: A Travel and Tourism Viva; Case II: The Major in Education; Case III: The Postgraduate Viva in Education; Refining the Validity Argument Model of the Viva as a Social Practice; References; 8 (Re-)Theorising the Viva; Abstract; Questions; Theorising the Viva; Core Concepts; Social Practice.