Pedagogical - EN

Thursday the 27th of November 2025
9.00 a.m. - 3.30 p.m.

Location: 
DH.V.0.30

This course will help you qualify as an oral examiner in university education in Denmark, primarily bachelor and master level programs in social sciences, incl. business administration and economics.

The course introduces the importance of applying course learning objectives as a basis for assessing student performance. It involves a hands-on role-play where three participants will perform an ‘actual’ oral examination as respectively student, examiner, and second examiner/censor. On the basis of the role-play, we will discuss not only the rules/regulations that define the oral examination but also the norms and judgement that must be applied in the interaction taking place during the examination.

The course will cover:

• Practical exercise in conducting oral examination.
• Practical exercises in grading and giving feedback to students.
• Practical advice on how you can relate to and use learning objectives from course descriptions and regulation programmes when you grade students.
• An introduction to the most important aspects of the ministerial orders on examination and grading and insight into the legal principles of how to conduct an oral examination
• Knowledge of the different roles of internal and external examiners.
• Tools to help you structure the examination in phases.
• Knowledge of different questioning techniques, incl. how to follow up on questions and answers in the most suitable way. In connection with this, we will discuss the effects of open and closed questions.
• Insights into the difference between individual oral examination and group oral examination