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Assessing the Viva in Higher Education - Chasing Moments of Truth (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Assessing the Viva in Higher Education - Chasing Moments of Truth (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: The Enabling Power of Assessment, 6
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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 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.
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