When students were asked how helpful the course study guides had been, the responses to the Research Study Guide were particularly mixed. This course relied heavily on the students’ ability to devise their own project and was the least prescriptive of the study guides. The strategic response was very clear:
The only Study Guide that I didn’t find helped me was the investigation (Research). I think it was hard because they couldn’t write a Study Guide on every single area; you had to choose your own area. So that was the one that I didn’t find useful. (Student, 2009)