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About the Course

Learners discover how apply to research methods to their study of Positive Psychology. In this course, we study with Dr. Angela Duckworth and Dr. Claire Robertson-Kraft. Through an exploration their work "True Grit" and interviews with researchers and practitioners, you develop a research hypothesis and learn how to understand the difference between internal and external validity. You also begin to understand and apply the strengths and weaknesses associated with different types of measurements and evaluation designs. You then interpret the results in an empirical study. Suggested prerequisites: Positive Psychology: Martin E. P. Seligman’s Visionary Science and Positive Psychology: Applications and Interventions....

Top reviews

SM

Oct 21, 2022

An extremely well developed course about not such a simple topic ir research methods. The instructors broke the topics down into easy to learn bytes such that an interested learner can complete easily

RW

Dec 27, 2019

Though i have nightmares of research design from my undergraduate career, this puts a neat spin on it and reminds the sheer importance of it. Thanks for the reminder of what is important UPENN!

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By Lisa B

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Jun 27, 2017

Very informative. Valuable information to have a general understanding of. Thank you for sharing this with us.

By Lim Z

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Nov 2, 2019

A bit on the dry side but learnt a lot of technical skills, especially how to approach a research paper.

By Steve O

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Jul 6, 2019

Interesting and valuable mixing a knowledge of grit with a useful introduction to research methodology.

By phyllis

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Aug 23, 2019

Thanks this course, I know how to make more accurate experiment and make me know more useful method.

By Jusleine D

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Aug 2, 2017

I enjoyed the materials shared, I just did not like the quality of the recorded videos

By Matthew G G

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Mar 5, 2018

Excellent course overall. I wish there was a way to download the powerpoint slides.

By li h

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Oct 20, 2018

Made me broad-minded about research and observation knowledge. Great course!

By Terry C

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Aug 23, 2017

A good course, but it makes heavy weather of understanding research issues.

By Hans a

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Oct 29, 2019

Much too theoretical, talks by Duckworth were very interesting and funny.

By Richard B

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Jan 13, 2018

Good basic introduction to research methods form an academic perspective.

By Kevin S L

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Apr 26, 2018

Great professors and content. The only issue is I don't like research!!!

By Sohail E

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May 11, 2022

The audio quality of Dr. Angela Duckworth was difficult to listen

By Madeleine

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Jul 12, 2018

I would have liked to learn more about Grit than Research Methods.

By Dr. M A M

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Jul 11, 2017

un curso necesario para validar todos los procesos metodológicos .

By Jane H W

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Jul 21, 2017

Liked this course, Content was a good review of research methods.

By Maryna

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May 18, 2020

I expected more from the course, but anyway it was useful.

By Alejandro G d l M

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Apr 7, 2021

A little bit too technical, but useful.

By Stephen M

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Sep 23, 2020

Great content , but a little repetitive

By Najmul H

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Nov 18, 2018

Useful program. A bit technical

By Iara A

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May 31, 2020

Very productive.

By Jimena N L R M

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Oct 11, 2022

By Jennifer A G

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Jan 25, 2018

Like some other students, I felt this course was heavily focused on research methods. I wanted to learn more about character and grit and how to help nurture them. As well, the previous two courses made me think this would be follow suit, but the focus on research methods felt like it went in a different direction. I appreciate that knowledge and am glad to have the awareness, but it felt a little artificial to come up with examples of how I'd employ research methods w a hypothesis of my own since I'm not a researcher nor do I want to be, and I'm not an undergrad or grad student any longer.

As well, the really short videos of Angela lecturing were too short to have a lot of impact. I think the longer ones with clearer focus are better. I'm getting a great background about grit and its associated research from reading her book and I'm thankful for that. And, I am enjoying this series of classes in general.

By Precilla A

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Jan 30, 2022

The course is good but the technical lose ends are not good. The peer review for module 2 and 3 were completed but the course still shows as incomeplete, while there is a green tick for all the items of the course. This is a paid program and it should take care of such loose ends especially that it is being imparted by a reputed institute on a famous online portal.

Moduel 4 peer review and my assignment review was a straight through process.

Moduel 2 and 3 were complete before Module 4 and they still are pending peer review and assignment marking.

I have started my 4th Program on Resilience as my purpose of doing this program is to get the specialization course completed, this is my bread and butter and professionally it means a lot.

Appreciate if this issue is resolved and sorted.

By Jo H

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May 14, 2018

This course does not fit in well with the rest of the Positive Psychology Specialization...for that purpose it would be better to simply focus on grit. In terms of the stated goal of helping others to become better consumers of research, the most valuable information came in lesson 4. It actually contained the overview that would have been better to have in the first lesson. Do put some thought into the 1st week's assignment, perhaps by reading ahead to make sure you understand what will be required in later assignments. In some ways also, the extension assignments would be better to focus on than the peer review assignments at this level. They are probably more instructive, but I did not complete all of them.

By Beatrice D L

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Mar 14, 2020

The videos covering research methods are quite insightful if you haven't been exposed to writing your own thesis/research paper before. The overall topic of research method is quite dry so it was a good to include practitioners implementing such techniques in their individual scenarios.

Most of Angela Duckworth's videos are quite interesting, as it is her videos that discuss the practical side of character and grit. The only real recommendation I have for this particular course is that when including practitioner videos, I would only include Paddy's (one of the practitioner's) videos - as his one seems to be the most interesting.