there were probably two main differences. So how did your findings tally with those of the original researchers? Respondents also said that doing the crossword hadn’t really increased their general motivation to study but that it had highlighted the gaps in their memory so they knew what further work was necessary. which I thought would be an obvious benefit. nor did anything to do with spelling of hard words. But something that struck me was that ‘having fun’ hardly featured in their responses. The students said that doing the crossword on a computer helped them really focus on the work in hand and not be distracted, which is something that commonly happens with other ways of doing of revision. Jake: Well, basically the responses were extremely positive. Tutor: Yes, an important lesson to learn for an apprentice researcher. I was taken aback by the fact that everybody we talked to thought this was a good return! I mean the responses were well written, you know, people had taken a lot of care, but I was really disappointed with the low numbers. Then we sent it to the forty students by email and got twenty-eight replies. Tutor: So you designed a shorter version? old-fashioned even, e ven though it had only been written a couple of years ago. There were lots of excellent questions on it but the whole section on difficulties using IT is now obsolete. The original article used a two-page long questionnaire. So how did you find out what the students thought about doing the crosswords? But then we convinced them that by taking part in the research they were actually benefiting themselves by preparing for an exam which is coming up later this term. Then we asked our classmates to try out the crossword and give us feedback, you know, their opinions, on how they felt about using the technique. and designed a crossword for revising these terms. Well, we drew up a list of terms from one of our own modules. So how did you go about reproducing the research? So these lecturers wanted to see how well this innovation was received by their students? using IT to design crosswords for higher education. well it seemed an accessible topic, even though we weren’t familiar with the technique. Īnd the crosswords were designed and set on computers.Īnd we selected the article because. Well, the article’s written by two university lecturers who had started using crosswords to help their students revise terminology for exams. So I’d like you to tell me a bit about the article and why you chose it. You were then required to try to reproduce the research procedures in your own context. So, the task I gave you both was to choose an article about a small-scale research project.
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