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ATISSA BANUAZIZI: When
students give their oral exams,

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they are presenting the
results of their experiment

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to their faculty member, their
professor for that section,

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and typically also for the TA.

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And so they have an audience
of about two people.

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Not very big.

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And in that oral exam, they give
the presentation pretty much

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straight without interruption.

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Then they get a Q&A session
from the professor and the TA.

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And then they may also typically
get a lot of immediate feedback

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from the professor
about how well it went

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and some suggestions for
how to do better next time.

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In the moment, it
can be hard for them

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to process all of that.

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Some little time following that
they will make an appointment

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with me and we will
sit down and watch

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the digital video
that was produced

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when they gave their talk.

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And typically on
another monitor,

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we will have the
actual slides that they

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use to give the presentation
so we can really sync that up.

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This gives them the
opportunity to look

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at their video in a
more objective way.

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It's not immediately
afterwards, they've

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had some time to
think and process.

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They have a chance to
think about the comments

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of their instructor through
this new lens, of somebody

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who's actually watching
their own work.

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We ask them to reflect on sort
of what their experience was

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in the moment.

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And then we sit down
and watch the video.

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And we'll typically stop and
sort of debrief a little bit

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when we notice things.

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And I'll ask them to talk
about what they notice

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and I'll tell them
what I notice.

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And then when we're
done watching the video,

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we might go over some of the
individual slides in some more

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detail.

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And then we brainstorm
together about things

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that they would want to
focus on for next time,

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particular issues that
they might have had,

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ways that they can
strategize about improving

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that for the next
round of presentations.

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So this all happens after the
first ungraded oral exam on one

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of their practice experiments.

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But the process of
giving the oral exams

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continues throughout
the semester.

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And some of them choose
to meet optionally

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with me before
their presentations

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if they want to do a
dry run or rehearsal.

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Some of them will choose to meet
with me immediately afterwards.

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But the next thing
that's actually

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built into the schedule
comes much closer

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to the end of the semester.

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At this point, they've given
their three oral exams.

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And they get to choose their
favorite one to present

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for a larger audience.

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And once they've made that
choice, they meet with me

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and we do pretty much the same
thing, we look at the video,

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we look at the slides.

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Only this time, it's with
an eye towards revising it

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for public consumption
and a bigger audience.