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1. Systematic investigation into a problem or situation, where the intention is to identify facts and/or opinions that will assist in solving the problem or dealing with the situation
2.observation ,questionnaires ,interviews
3.'participants'
4. ‘Setting’

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Work with a partner or in a small group.

Imagine you need to choose appropriate research methods to answer this example research question:

What is the relationship between distance learning and student mental wellbeing?

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In the same groups as before, study the example research questions on the next slide. For each question, decide:

1.  Which data collection technique might be appropriate? Why?

2.  Which participants might be appropriate? Why?

3.  Which setting might be appropriate? Why?

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In the Pre-Class Activity, you reviewed your understanding of academic research.   What do you already know about academic research and research methods? In pairs or small groups, discuss:

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In the Pre-Class Activity, you reviewed your understanding of academic research.   What do you already know about academic research and research methods? In pairs or small groups, discuss:

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1.  What is ‘academic research’?

2.  What are some of the ways / techniques to collect primary data?

3.  What is the word used for the people who take part in research?

4.  What is the word used for the place where research is based?

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interviews
questionnaires
observations

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1.Systematic investigation into a problem or situation, where the intention is to identify facts and/or opinions that will assist in solving the problem or dealing with the situation
2.obervation,interviews,questionnaires,collect analysis,dicourse analysis
3.Clinical research
4.setting

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Use online search tools to read literature or use physical books. Specific online literature search tools such as Google Scholar.
Or their own research experience.

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Academic research involves a thorough investigation into what is known about a given topic.

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1 find out the answer to a new question
2 questionnair ,interviwe,observation
3participant
4 setting

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Setting

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Observation, because we can analysis students’ performance through observation to get the relationship between students’ mental wellbeing and distance-learning.

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The psychological situation of students evaluated by themselves/ a professional psychological test/ the distance learning situation of students

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university that teaches by distance education, because this topic discuss the relationship between distance learning and student mental wellbeing. choose university as setting is suitable.

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1.students
2.teachers
3.parents

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1. School, community; have lots of students.
2. Students of all age range; more specific.
3. The opinion of these students, the feeling of them.
4. questionnaires ,interview

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1.Sheffield because lots of students live in the city and international students.
2.postgraduates. Because we are preparing to the master degree.
3. How many online class one week and what are they thinking about the online class?
4 questionnaires and we can do some interviews.

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In the same groups, open and scan the ‘example journal article methods section’ document.

Part A: Add answers to the class padlet:

A.  Where did the researchers carry out their research?

B.  Which people (= participants) were included in this research?

C.  What kind(s) of information did the researchers want to find out from these people?

D.  How did they find / collect this information?

E.  What reason(s) did the researchers give for their choices?

Part B: Discuss: Did the researchers have the same answers you had in activity 4? Note any interesting similarities / differences.

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a. At the Open University
b. Students and tutors
c. The study aimed to capture narratives about barriers and enablers to mental wellbeing students experience during the study.
d.interviews
e.

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A.Open university.
B.OU students and tutors
C.To capture narratives about barriers and enablers to mental wellbeing students experience during the study.
D. interviews and convenience sampling
E. In order to address our research questions, a study was conducted at the Open University , a large, distance learning institution in the UK with over 16000 students disclosing a mental health issue.