Critique the methods
A methods section annotated for weaknesses, with improvements.
Critique the sampling in the methods section given.
- Category
- Graduate and doctoral. Research, defence, peer review.
- The student gives
- Several named parts
- Marked
- By you, or by Procto AI against your rubric when you ask
- The prompt carries
- Text, and anything you add
- In the builder
- Now.
None. Every setting of a quiz applies to it.
About critique the methods.
Why this shape
A methods section annotated for weaknesses with improvements: the reviewer's eye, taught and tested.
An example. Identify three weaknesses in the methods and propose an improvement for each.
What it is
Graduate shapes ask for the work of research: synthesise several sources with citations, defend a position with evidence and counter-argument, critique a methods section, write a grant section, review a paper, answer an oral examination.
Why it is needed
Beyond the undergraduate years, assessment is about judgement and argument, and the shapes that serve a first-year quiz cannot carry it. These shapes hold several documents, long written answers and structured critique, and they mark against a rubric written for the discipline.
When to use it
Use them in postgraduate courses, doctoral training, research methods teaching, and wherever the assessment is a piece of scholarly work rather than a recall of facts.
How to write one well
Give the sources or the passage in the question. Write the rubric with the criteria the discipline uses: argument, evidence, method, originality, clarity. Set a word limit that matches the task.
For critique the methods in particular. Choose a methods section with real, findable flaws.
Mistakes to avoid
A rubric so general that every answer is average. Sources too long to read in the time. A task that asks for a whole paper in an hour.
How EdProcto marks it
By a reader against the rubric: Procto AI where its grading is open, and always with the instructor's release. The sources and the answer stay with the attempt for the examiner.
Questions.
- How does a student answer a critique the methods question?
- Several named parts. A methods section annotated for weaknesses, with improvements.
- How is critique the methods marked?
- By you, against the model answer and rubric you give, or by Procto AI when you ask it on an answer; the mark it saves is yours to keep or change.
- Can Procto AI write critique the methods questions?
- Yes: from a chapter, notes or a handout, in this shape, at the level of thinking you set, written from your material only if you say so.
Also in graduate and doctoral.
The whole categorySeveral documents, one written synthesis with citations.
Defend a positionClaim, evidence, reasoning, counter-argument.
Write a grant sectionOne section of a research grant, against a rubric.
Peer reviewMajor comments, minor comments, a recommendation.
Oral defenceAn oral examination with several examiners.