Summary and Setup

Learning Objectives

After following this lesson, learners will be able to:

  • Objective 1 Explain the fundamental concepts of research, including its purpose, types, and key terminology, by the end of the lesson.

  • Objective 2 Identify and describe the key steps in the research process, ~such as problem formulation, literature review, methodology selection, data collection, analysis, and reporting~, with at least 80% accuracy in a structured assessment.

  • Objective 3 Develop a basic research proposal on a given topic by outlining a research question, methodology, and expected outcomes within a structured framework by the end of the training session.

Lesson Prerequisites

Learners should have:

  1. Basic Computer Literacy –
  • Ability to navigate files, install software, and use a web browser.

This is a new lesson built with The Carpentries Workbench.

FIXME: Setup instructions live in this document. Please specify the tools and the data sets the Learner needs to have installed.

Data Sets

Download the data zip file and unzip it to your Desktop

Software Setup

Details

Setup for different systems can be presented in dropdown menus via a spoiler tag. They will join to this discussion block, so you can give a general overview of the software used in this lesson here and fill out the individual operating systems (and potentially add more, e.g. online setup) in the solutions blocks.

Use PuTTY

Use Terminal.app

Use Terminal