MB 313

Quantitative Presentation

 

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The goal of your presentation is to give the class a sense of how your research went as well as your findings.  Because this is quantitative research, we want to understand how the sample of respondents responded to your research question.  Your presentation should follow these steps:

 

Introduction

 

What is your research question? What hypotheses did you propose to test? 

 

Methods

 

How did you choose your subjects? How many did you choose?  Where did you give them the survey?  Why did you pick these locations?  Did you have any problems with interviewing or surveying them?

 

Results

 

Present your results by first describing the data. How many people were in the sample? How many males vs. females, etc. What does the distribution of your data for your scale(s) look like? Then tell us the results of your hypothesis testing. You should show us some t-tests, crosstabs and at least one regression analysis.

 

Conclusions

 

Now that you have done this study, how would you do it differently?  What have you learned about this research method?

 

For the Instructor:

 

An outline of the presentation.

A paper copy of all overheads and other visual aids.

 

Format:

 

Presentations are 20 minutes long.

Presentations have a beginning, middle, and an end.

An outline of the presentation is displayed during the introduction to the presentation.

Audience understands the major points and sees the perspective you are taking.

Visual aids are used to reinforce major points.

A good opening and summing up.

Ends decisively, don’t just trail off or end abruptly.

Logical, smooth transitions between speakers.

Speakers don't contradict each other.  (Iron out differences before the presentation.)

 

Tips for Higher Grades:

 

Do not try and cover too much material. One indicator of this mistake is when the speakers talk too fast and rapidly display overheads in an attempt to cover all of their talk in the time allotted.

 

Try and avoid reading directly from index cards.  When presenters read from cards, they often adopt a monotone voice and sometimes read too fast. 

 

Written material on overheads should be brief and should rarely be read by the presenter.  Written “bullet points” are used to reinforce the points that the presenter is making, and the presenter should be verbally presenting an elaboration of the bullet points.  However, the presenter should refer to visual aids such as timelines and diagrams so that the audience knows where in a possibly complicated picture they should be directing their attention.

 

Make it interesting. What makes your results interesting?  What did you find out that was unexpected or surprising?

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