Week 1 Research Methods Experience Traditionally when I have researched the impact of audio feedback on student learning and experience, also to examine the long tail effect. I have used blend of qualitative and quantitative methods. Quantitative method of a survey instrument which my co-author and I have designed, gained ethics permission refined the survey post ethics feedback, then tested on a few, refined again and then deployed across a wide audience. The key areas of been ensuring the each question does not have any leading bias, or respondents not bias influenced by the person deploying the survey. All respondents are anonymous , and analysed anonymously . When presenting the data all ensuring that individuals cannot be identified. One of the challenges when surveying engineers, as there is too few female engineers to split the data along gender identification, is often not viable as too few female responses to be statistically valid, but also when presenting the data