Assessing the viva in higher education : chasing moments of truth /: chasing moments of truth. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Stephen Dobson.
• Authors: Dobson, Stephen
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 371.26; Education; Tax assessment; Education, Higher; Education -- Philosophy; Education, Higher -- Evaluation; Education; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation; Higher Education; Educational Philosophy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319640167
• Related ISBNs: 331964016X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 22, 2017).
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