LEADER 04340nam 22005295 450 001 9910299511703321 005 20200701223136.0 010 $a3-319-64016-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-64016-7 035 $a(CKB)3780000000451162 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-64016-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4987096 035 $a(EXLCZ)993780000000451162 100 $a20170824d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAssessing the Viva in Higher Education $eChasing Moments of Truth /$fby Stephen Dobson 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (XXIII, 194 p. 8 illus.) 225 1 $aThe Enabling Power of Assessment,$x2198-2643 ;$v6 311 $a3-319-64014-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. . 330 $aThis book makes the case for a revival in interest in the viva. As an oral assessment of a treatise or dissertation or of a student?s performance in art or dance the viva has a long history dating back to the time of the Greeks. It can be found today in the form of professional, vocational and academic vivas, where a judgment of oral performance is required to gain entry into a profession or community of scholars. In a time when there are scandals about students selling essays to other students, the viva provides a fertile ground for probing the student to see whether they are in fact the authors of the work being assessed and know its content and how to think cognitively or otherwise. Given that we actually know so little about the viva, the book theorises the viva based on a unique sample of vivas that have been filmed or in which the author himself has been participant, and discusses why its format is so different in Anglo-Saxon languages and Latin and other languages. The book offers educational policy-makers and examiners a trade-off between arguments in support of the viva and the demand for other, ever more cost-effective forms of assessment as the numbers of both undergraduate and postgraduate students threaten to increase. It also argues that with demand in the labour market for qualified graduates who are better equipped with transferable skills, such as the ability to communicate complex ideas verbally in a competent, well-argued fashion and not merely through the use of rhetoric, what appear to be cost-effective forms of assessment in the short run (e.g. written exams with standardised questions or multiple choice) may actually in the long run be of less value if we are investing in a future workforce with so-called 21st century communication skills. If the viva were abandoned, the student would be robbed of the opportunity to stage a defence. 410 0$aThe Enabling Power of Assessment,$x2198-2643 ;$v6 606 $aAssessment 606 $aHigher education 606 $aEducation?Philosophy 606 $aAssessment, Testing and Evaluation$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/O33000 606 $aHigher Education$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/O36000 606 $aEducational Philosophy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/O38000 615 0$aAssessment. 615 0$aHigher education. 615 0$aEducation?Philosophy. 615 14$aAssessment, Testing and Evaluation. 615 24$aHigher Education. 615 24$aEducational Philosophy. 676 $a371.26 700 $aDobson$b Stephen$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0415913 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910299511703321 996 $aAssessing the Viva in Higher Education$92523946 997 $aUNINA