Course Description:
How to effectively evaluate and examine postgraduate work remains an ongoing and debatable issue. This short course aims to equip postgraduate study supervisors and examiners (master's and doctorate level) with relevant knowledge and skills to evaluate and examine senior degree studies in terms of: How to self-assess for synergy and coherence in a study; How to assess the structural elements of a thesis; How to select examiners and submit students' work for examination; How to apply examination criteria to different parts of a thesis; How to write the narrative of an examination report; How to plan and conduct postgraduate oral examinations.
Facilitator:
Professor Eli Bitzer is a past Director of the Centre for Higher and Adult Education and Emeritus Professor at Stellenbosch University (SU). He has successfully supervised a total of almost 80 master's and PhD students, has examined over 50 master's and doctoral studies and has published extensively in the field of postgraduate supervision, doctoral education and different aspects of assessment and quality promotion in higher education. The title of his latest (2018) co-edited book is: Spaces, journeys and new horizons for postgraduate supervision.
Please contact Ms Rhoda Van Rensburg at vanrensburgrhoda@sun.ac.za for more information on each short course, as well as registrations or simply click on the registration button above.