Defend your choice of method.
- Category
- Graduate and doctoral. Research, defence, peer review.
- The student gives
- A spoken conversation
- Marked
- By you
- The prompt carries
- Text, and anything you add
- In the builder
- Now.
None. Every setting of a quiz applies to it.
About oral defence.
Why this shape
An oral examination with several examiners: the viva, rehearsed and recorded.
An example. Defend the choice of method in chapter three.
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 oral defence in particular. Ask the questions a real panel asks; the recording is for the candidate too.
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 oral defence question?
- A spoken conversation. An oral examination with several examiners.
- How is oral defence marked?
- By you. The answer is kept for you to grade, and a score is released only when you release it.
- Can Procto AI write oral defence 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.
Critique the methodsA methods section annotated for weaknesses, with improvements.
Write a grant sectionOne section of a research grant, against a rubric.
Peer reviewMajor comments, minor comments, a recommendation.