Web-Based Puzzle Program to Assist Students’ Understanding of Research Methods

Abstract

This article documents a Web-based program that aims to aid students’ understanding of research methods and prepare them for an examination question that has a similar style. Twenty sentences were presented at random from a larger pool and each had two missing words that the student had to match from the complete list of words. Students generally agreed that the sentences could not easily be guessed by using grammatical rules and that the puzzle program had helped them to understand the material and prepare for the examination. The program was ranked by students third of the eight support materials supplied to the students with a median score of 7.53 from a maximum of 10.