Even the themes are perfect, for me were disarticulated. The videos of grit and character were segments of a class, not designed for the course and un-related with the research methods. Complete different from the courses of Dr. Seligman that even where classes are related and articulated.

Also, for the assignments, the instructions were unclear and vague.

Unlike the other positive psychology courses I've taken on Coursera, this one seemed to lack focus and not be particularly helpful. I don't feel better off for having taken it.

It's also repetitive, to the point where I think some of the exercises in some weeks were copies or near copies of prior weeks' exercises.

I enjoyed the information on Grit and Dr. Duckworth's research, however, I did not care for the research methods sections. I understand the importance of this information, however, I have already learned this information in college. I did not enjoy rehashing information I already knew.

I was expecting more context about grit, too many information about measurements and statistics. I am sorry but it was a big disapointment, I even bought the book from Angela Duckworth because the topic if very interesting to me

there was little coherence in this course and at times it was challenging to see any connections in the content. The videos, in particular, Dr. Duckworths, had serious sound issues..... didn't like this course.

For those who learned statistics and research earlier and would want to focus on PP only, this course will be a waste of everything. The grit part is quite messy.

I am not a science/math person and I found this course very difficult to get through. I had to keep going though, you can't exactly quit a class about grit :)

While interesting, the focus on research methods was a lot less interesting than the rest of the specialization.

The only interesting part were the Angela Duckworth parts..All other aspects of the course were quite boring

I wish the content focused more on grit and not on research methods

Very technical around scientific studies

quite dry

This course is a monumental waste of time. First, make up your mind, is it about grit or research methods? Research methods are helpful only to a handful of students and only to some interested in positive psychology. Also, Angela Duckworth didn't invent or realize some well-hidden secret. She worked for 20 years, wrote a book, and gave numerous talks on grit to find out that, talent alone is not enough and if you want to be successful you need to put in the work and the deliberate practice. I know...groundbreaking. I knew all of that when I was in second grade. Worst course on Coursera ever.

It is nonsense! This course was supposed to give us the skills to consume research correctly as an enhancement for the course we are actually doing: positive psychology. And it does not. It is very unsystematic, jumping from one thing to another. Some things are too much, for other too few, and with few perspective and wrong one. Why on earth do I want to create my own research? And if I did, I would for sure not do it in this format, in the middle of a course for something else!

Not the best course out of the 5 courses for Foundations of Positive Psychology. The research terminology is daunting for a beginner and not required for a foundation course. I quick introduction and then moving on to more dicussions of grit and character would have been more fun. A deep dive will be justiified if I want to study the course in detail or focus primarily on research methodologies. At this point, I am wondering what I will take away if i complete the course.

Maybe because I read Angela's book and found it very repetitive and boring, this module was extremely hard to go through. I do not think it has a place in this course, as the first two modules were great! Even if I understand the importance of research, I enrolled in the course about the Foundation of Positive Psychology. If I was interested in studying about research methods I would have followed that line in my study options.

The sound quality on Duckworth is amateurish.

The entire focus on scientific article construction and reading is over the top and uninteresting for most consumers.

The content was uninteresting compared to M. Seligman chapters and Resilience part.

I wanted to finalize a course but I was kicked out of the app, even though I am subscribed to Coursera Plus until the end of February. It will not let me finish one of my courses that I would really like to finish.

We want to learn more about Positive Psychology NOT details on research methods. Unless we intend to go into research ourselves, I found a huge portion of it unnecessary and a waste of my time.

Dreadful. More evidence that positive psychology lacks rigour and is a brand.

research based