Conference:
ECER 2008
Format:
Research Workshop
Session Information
PRE_MOCK, Mock Viva (Part 1)
Mock Viva
Time:
2008-09-09
14:00-15:00
Room:
C1 22 Margaretha Huitfeldts Auditorium
Chair:
Shosh Leshem
Discussant:
Vernon Trafford
Contribution
In every doctoral student's life, there is a time when their work will be presented to a number of experts/examiners and discussed or questioned. This can happen at a workshop with other peers, with the supervisor or what is called a 'mock' viva in the UK. Indeed many postgraduate students in Britain experience a "mock" viva some time before their real one. In the book Assessing the Mock Viva: The Experiences of British Doctoral Students (Hartley & Fox, 2004) these "mock" vivas were judged to be helpful by 90% of the students concerned.
For this reason, the Postgraduate Network together with Prof. Vernon Trafford (Anglia Ruskin University) and Dr. Shosh Leshem (Oranim Academic College of Education, and Haifa University) is organizing a live 'mock' viva or simulated thesis defence at the Pre-Conference. The Open University Press will publish their extensive research into the nature of doctorateness as ‘Stepping Stones to achieving your Doctorate: By focusing on our viva from the start’ in September, 2008.
This work shop will give Ph.D. students at the final phase of their work a chance to experience a viva and receive feedback on their defence. The 'mock' viva will be held so that others can also observe and benefit from the process.
Timetable for the Mock Vivas on Tuesday 8 September
13:30 Introduction to the doctoral defense process
14:00 Mock viva: Alli Klapp Lekholm
Topic: Cognitive and non-cognitive aspects of grades
14:45 Group collective reflection
15:00 Mock viva: Khalil Gholami
Topic: How teachers reason about the practice of teaching:
representing the epistemic nature of teachers' practical knowledge
15:45 Group collective reflection
16:00 Coffee break
16.25 Group plenary feedback
17.00 Putting it all together: oral and written doctoral defense
17.45 Disperse
Expected Outcomes
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