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Tutor: So I gave you both a task to select an article about a small-scale research project.
Both: Yes.
Tutor: And I required you to have a trial to replicate the procedures of the research in your own context, I mean, try it out yourself.
Jake: Yeah, and we’ve done that.
Tutor: Nice, in this way I want you to tell me a little bit about the article and explain why it started applying crosswords to assist the students to review the exam terminologies.
Lila: All right, the article was written by two university professors who had initially used crosswords to help the students revise the terminology for exams.
Jake: And the crosswords were designed and installed on computers.
Lila: And we selected the article because though we weren’t familiar with the technique, it seems an accessible topic. You know, using IT to design crosswords for higher education.
Tutor: That’s a good reason. So both of the professors would like to see how well this innovation was received by their students?
Both: Yes.
Tutor: So what has been going on with your reproducing the research?
Lila: Well, we collected a series of some terms from our own modules and put them in a list, then we designed a crossword to revise them.
Jake: Then we invited some of our classmates to try out our crossword and then ask for some feedback from them, you know, like their feelings, views, as well as some suggestions about using this technique.
Tutor: Did you find it easy to have people participated in it?
Jake: Not really. At first, you know, it was actually hard, but later when we convinced them by talking about the actual benefit that they will get from participating in this research on preparing for an exam which is coming up later this semester...
Lila: ... it functioned.
Tutor: Great, so how did you get the feedback from the students that tells you their thought about the crosswords?
Jake: By a questionnaire. There were two pages in the original questionnaire and it included lots of x-linked questions. But the whole section about difficulties using IT is now out of date. Even the questionnaire had just been finished a few years ago.
Tutor: So have you done a shorter version?
Lila: Sure, and then we emailed it to 40 students and received 28 replies. I was disappointed by the fact, but... this was a relatively good result, I mean the responses we got from them were well-written, you know, people did take a lot of care with them, but I was still taken aback with the low numbers.
Tutor: Yes, for an apprentice researcher, it’s an important lesson to learn.
Both: Yeah.