This page contains reflective oral case studies with links to underpinning assessment theory.

Case Study - Role play presentation and interview

Module: Sports Policy; Outdoor Leisure issues

Quotes from students involved in this oral assessment (2007)

"Stressful, however powerfully rewarding"

"A really good way of testing our knowledge and understanding of the subject,  Much more effective than presenting and writing".

"It was an interesting change to the conventional assignments.  It challenged me more than a normal presentation or essay".

"It was good, made me think on my feet".

Case Study - Oral Examination using question banks

Module: Sports Development Principles and Introduction to Sport & Exercise Physiology

Case Study - Class Debate

Module: Advanced Topics in Health & Exercise Science

Case Study - Oral viva for a dissertation

Module - BA Sound Arts Design Dissertation - final award Yr 3

Resource: Audio recording - 'The Viva Voce - The Living Voice'.  A 'Student Handbook - a guide to oral delivery as accommodated assessment'.

This handbook links with the case study.  It is a streamed windows media, file size 4.4 Mb.

More about Oral Assessment Theory

Keywords: oral assessment, oral presentations. oral communication.

Key contexts for use of approach: presentations, interviews, vivas, group work (such as presentations), seminars, debates.

1. General Information.  The main focus of the approach.

2. Key assumptions and challenges to those assumptions.

3. Potential problems and solutions to the approach.  Frequently Asked Questions.

4. Link to Learning and Teaching Theories.

5. Research and Projects.

6. References and Resources

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