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The Oral Exam

Jeff Boulton. The Oral Exam. Woah . Wait a minute. Are you crazy?. The Professional Job Interview. (It’s an oral exam…). No, I’m not crazy. The Summative:. The exam:. Personal skills profile Understanding of self Understanding of required skills Feedback/outside opinion

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The Oral Exam

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  1. Jeff Boulton The Oral Exam

  2. Woah. Wait a minute. Are you crazy? The Professional Job Interview

  3. (It’s an oral exam…) No, I’m not crazy.

  4. The Summative: The exam: • Personal skills profile • Understanding of self • Understanding of required skills • Feedback/outside opinion • Community involvement • Research and prep work • Studying • Demonstrate research skills • Timeline • Understanding of career and educational paths • Job application • Receive one, pick one • Begin to prepare • Exemplars of interview • Given process, types of questions, sample answers • Specific preparation • Apply summative results • Conduct Interviews • One on one, no notes • Question draw out course content • Specified time, location, and limit • During class or exam block So, what does it look like? The goal is: youevaluate their learning, and theylearn an invaluable life skill in the process!

  5. (Translation: this sounds like more work.) (Also can be translated as: this sounds dumb.) Why would I want to do this?

  6. Given that: This Final 30% • Exam time is busy • Have oodles of marking • Have to post online now too • No time to remake anything • Should be emphasizing higher level thinking skills • Authentic tasks • More relevant • More interesting and fun • Lend themselves to higher level thinking skills • Saves you time! • Is easy to make and mark • Is IMPOSSIBLE to cheat on! • Has already been made for you • Emphasizes analysis, articulation, and application • Is a simulation that’s • A realistic, necessary life skill • Engaging and interactive • Simultaneously requires the use of all a student’s skills Why you WANT to do this!

  7. Given that: This Final 30% • You need to accommodate special learners • Allows simple flexible accommodation for all • The interviewer can: • Repeat questions • Ask questions in a different way • Clarify question • Alter the time duration • For questions • For the entire interview • Have unclear responses explained • Provides students with the maximum opportunity to be successful under conditions suitable to them Why you WANT to do this!

  8. I know, you’re thinking: Well, • I need an examination • In a controlled environment • With time limits • That tests course content • Doesn’t prepare them for University • Yes, they don’t do this stuff • Well, it’s not that important, waste of time • More important skills • They have 60% exams • Won’t prepare them for Uni • It is an examination • It is; it’s one on one • It’s got ‘em • It does • Are you completely sure about that? • They do now • 80-90% graduate with an offer; 92% of grads placed for summer • Top skills demanded are used • Not as much any more • 84% of us have no degree Still Not Convinced?

  9. Would you rather: Or would you rather: • Write up a brand new assignment? • Modify your exam for each new semester? • Spend 20 minutes marking a student’s work? • Have to mark at home on your own time? • Sit for several hours in an exam setting? • Use the one included with the outline? • Never really need to modify it ever again? • Spend 20 minutes with the student? • Mark in the interview during your work day? • Be finished with this course on the last day of classes? Consider This… Think about it

  10. Highest degree attained for Canadians 15 and older. Statistics Canada. Available online October 5, 2006 at http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/educ42.htm Class of 2005 Final Employment Results. Queen’s School of Business. Available online October 5, 2006 at: http://business.queensu.ca/careers/docs/October2005FinalEmploymentResults.pdf 2005 HBA Summer Employment Statistics. Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario. Available online October 5, 2006 at: http://www.ivey.uwo.ca/recruiter/Reports/HBA2005summerNEW.htm Employability Skills 2000+ Conference Board of Canada. Available online October 5, 2006 at http://www.conferenceboard.ca/education/learning-tools/pdfs/esp2000.pdf References

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