The Role of External Examining in Higher Education Challenges and Best Practices.

The Role of External Examining in Higher Education Challenges and Best Practices.

This book considers external examination examples in academia across the world. With chapters that cover examples of mitigating disadvantage and creating opportunities without compromising the quality assurance process, the authors examine how universities are engaged in safeguarding procedures at t...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sengupta, Enakshi
Other Authors: Blessinger, Patrick, Ssemwanga, Andrew, Cozza, Barbara
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
Series:Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning Ser.
Subjects:
Universities and colleges > Examinations.
Education, Higher > Evaluation.
Quality assurance.
Higher & further education, tertiary education.
Education > Higher.
Education, Higher > Evaluation
Quality assurance
Universities and colleges
Examinations
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

Similar Items