type-method_037

types_and_methods_list
classification	assessment method
name of type or methode	Oral exam
short description	- Assessment practice where the students demonstrates their knowledge orally. It typically involves the evaluator posing questions to the evaluated student - Interactive interview complemented with presentation of practices developed by single students or groups of them as a powerful system to check the knowledge acquisition level
is applicaple or could be used for	- It is important to find out how the student understood the problem and how he can implement it in practice - Smaller student groups - Flexible evaluation dates - Online evaluation - Assessment of the knowledge about single topics as well as the capability of transversal logic connections across topics, able to represent the complexity and the systemic vision that student should have acquired and consolidated - Possibility to uncover what has been learned purely by heart - There is the possibility of helping students in a nervous situation by asking them carefully step by step to formulate their existing knowledge or application competence
be aware of (challenges)	- Fine-tune grading is challenging - Failing a student in person can be challenging - Need of teachers with clear and complete awareness of all subjects taught by her/him-self and co-teachers, if any - Attitude of teachers to accompany students in transversal logical connections - Students fear of oral exam - Assessment takes a lot of time for large groups
to be complemented by	- Additional summative assessment tasks (exercise solving, assignments, reports...) for fine-tune grading - Preliminary clarification to students of the exam organization and capabilities expectations
short description of examples	KTH (57): Oral exam DICEA (58): Oral exam UNIZG (59): Oral exam
best practice examples	bp_57_assessment_method_oral_exam_1.pdf, bp_58_assessment_method_oral_exam_2.pdf, bp_59_assessment_method_oral_exam_3.pdf