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Role of External Examining in Higher Education: Challenges and Best Practices [Kõva köide]

Edited by (Family Enterprise Support Initiative (FESI), Uganda), Edited by (St. Johns University, USA), Edited by (St. John's University, USA), Edited by (Independent Researcher and Scholar, Afghanistan)
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This volume brings together 10 chapters by education, technology, and other specialists from Europe, the US, Africa, and the United Arab Emirates, who discuss the role of external examining in higher education. They address the traditional role of external examiners for quality assurance; promoting access to external examining roles through professional development; the role of the external examiner to review student work submitted for assessment; challenges facing external examiners in further indication institutions; the effectiveness of external examining of postgraduate dissertations in India; external examining of the professional doctorate and differences from the traditional PhD; external examining policies at the U. of Mauritius; quality assurance in the private and university sector in the UK; and efforts to meet external examiner requirements in the absence of statewide data in the US. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

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Globally higher education institutions play a very indispensable role in preparing students for the world of work by evaluating and moderating them through external examiners who also act as good reviewers. The book The Role of External Examining in Higher Education: Challenges and Best Practices has brought out the pertinence of external examiners which is a 'must read' for anyone who is allied to the higher education sector. -- Dr Sweta Patnaik, Country Director, HETL, South Africa

List of Contributors
vii
Series Editors' Introduction ix
PART I ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF EXTERNAL EXAMINERS
Chapter 1 Introduction to the Role of External Examining in Higher Education - Challenges and Best Practices
1(12)
Enakshi Sengupta
Patrick Blessinger
Andrew Ssemwanga
Barbara Cozza
Chapter 2 Acting as External Examiners in the UK: Going Beyond Quality Assurance
13(12)
Amudha Poobalan
Padam Simkhada
Edwin van Teijlingen
Chapter 3 Promoting Access to External Examining Roles Through Professional Development
25(18)
Helen Kay
Juliet Hinrichsen
Chapter 4 Authentic Assessments and the External Examiner
43(18)
Mikhaila Burgess
Helen Phillips
Chapter 5 Is There such a Thing as "Comparableness"? The Challenges Facing the EEs of Higher-Education Courses Delivered within Further-Education Institutions
61(16)
Sarah Cooper
Sara Pearman
PART II CHALLENGES AND QUALITY ASSURANCE
Chapter 6 A Study of the Effectiveness of the External Examining System of Postgraduate (MBA) Dissertations and the Mismatch Between Expectations and Practice
77(18)
Deepanjana Varshney
Chapter 7 External Examining the Professional Doctorate as Distinct from the Traditional PhD: Differentiating and Developing Policy and Practice
95(28)
Dionisia Tzavara
Victoria L. O'Donnell
Chapter 8 External Examining Policies at the University of Mauritius
123(16)
Fareeda Khodabocus
Henri Li Kam Wah
Chapter 9 Benchmarking: A Comparative Case Study Analysis of Quality Assurance Across the Private and University Sector in the UK
139(20)
Kay Maddox-Daines
Chapter 10 Building without a Foundation: Efforts in Higher Education to Meet External Examiners Requirements in the Absence of Statewide Data
159(14)
Megan Schramm-Possinger
Lisa E. Johnson
Beth G. Costner
About the Authors 173(8)
Name Index 181(6)
Subject Index 187
Enakshi Sengupta serves as Associate Director of the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association, USA. 



Patrick Blessinger is Chief Research Scientist of the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association, USA.  





Andrew Ssemwanga is the Founder and Executive Director for Family Enterprise Support Initiative (FESI), Uganda. 





Barbara Cozza is Department Chair and Professor of Education at St. Johns University in New York, New York, USA.