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The role of external examining in higher education challenges and best practices /

Using an external examiner in an institution is not a new phenomenon. Whilst there is no 'one size fits all' approach, how can researchers collaborate on key developments in maintaining higher education standards in order to overcome challenges and cultivate best practice together? This bo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sengupta, Enakshi (Editor ), Blessinger, Patrick (Editor ), Ssemwanga, Andrew (Editor ), Cozza, Barbara (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing, 2021.
Colección:Innovations in higher education teaching and learning
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505 0 |a PART I. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF EXTERNAL EXAMINERS Introduction to the role of external examining in higher education -- challenges and best practices; Enakshi Sengupta, Patrick Blessinger, Andrew Ssemwanga and Barbara Cozza Chapter 1. Acting as external examiners in the UK: going beyond quality assurance; Amudha Poobalan, Padam Simkhada and Edwin van Teijlingen Chapter 2. Promoting access to external examining roles through professional development; Helen Kay and Juliet Hinrichsen Chapter 3. Authentic assessments and the external examiner; Mikhaila Burgess and Helen Phillips Chapter 4. Is there such a thing as 'comparableness'? The challenges facing the EEs of higher-education courses delivered within further-education institutions; Sarah Cooper and Sara Pearman PART II. CHALLENGES & QUALITY ASSURANCE Chapter 5. A study of the effectiveness of the external examining system of postgraduate (MBA) dissertations and the mismatch between expectations and practice; Deepanjana Varshney Chapter 6. External examining the professional doctorate as distinct from the traditional PhD: differentiating and developing policy and practice; Dionisia Tzavara and Victoria L. O' Donnell Chapter 7. External examining policies at The University of Mauritius; Fareeda Khodabocus and Henri Li Kam Wah Chapter 8. Benchmarking: a comparative case study analysis of quality assurance across the private and university sector in the UK; Kay Maddox-Daines Chapter 9. Building without a foundation: efforts in higher education to meet external examiners requirements in the absence of statewide data; Megan Schramm-Possinger, Lisa E. Johnson and Beth G. Costner. 
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