Research Presentation Guidelines

Research Presentation Guidelines
Brief Presentation: This is the visual version of your paper.

Your presentation should include a short introduction, your
hypotheses, a brief description of the methods, tables, and/or
graphs related to your findings, and an interpretation of your
data. The presentations should not be more than 10 minutes
long. It is not much time though. Consider planning about 1
minute per slide. The trick to giving a better presentation is
simplifying your information down into bulleted, diagrams,
tables, and graphs. Do not rush while presenting.
Title slide (1 slide). It will contain the title of your paper. If the
research is in a group, list the name of all the members, your
class and section, school, and the date of presentation.
Introduction (typically 3-4 slides). Explain why your work is

interesting. This part tells the context of the study. Using
pictures is a plus factor to attract audience excitement and
attention about the issue and questions you are addressing.
Clearly state your hypotheses.
Materials and Methods (typically 2-3slides). This is a clear

summary of the design. Show a picture of your respondents and
justify why they are appropriate for addressing the questions
mentioned above. Show a picture of the venue/ laboratory set-up
or some person doing some work or activity related to your study.
You can show a diorama of your experimental design (sample
sizes, sampling frequency). Mention what parameters you
measured but do not go into detail on exact procedures used.
State what statistical tests you used to analyze data.
Acknowledgment (1 slide). Thank everyone who provided advice

or assistance. Verbally thank your audience for their attention
and tell them you would be happy to answer any questions.
Preparing for the Oral Defense
of your Research Paper
1. Your evaluation is based on your presentation.

2. Prepare for your presentation mentally and physically. If
possible, sleep early the night before your presentation.
3. You don’t need to memorize everything but you should know
the key points.
4. Familiarize your PowerPoint presentation and all the parts
of your research including all the details.
5. Make eye contact with more than one member of the panel
of assessors during your presentation.
6. You may bring a mode of verifications for easy reference of
your research.
7. Keep cool. Don’t speak too fast and don’t read your notes.
Just glance once in a while.
8. Use simple terminologies. It should be concise to be
understood even if the audience is not in the academe.
9. You may prepare hand-outs or brochures.
10. Space your presentation. Do not focus on one slide only.
11. When the panelist occasionally interacts during your
presentation, take note of the suggestions.
12. Do not answer in a hurry. Pause and think to organize your
thoughts. If you are not clear about the question, you are
entitled to clarify.
13. Put up a good defense without being defensive. Be
confident.
14. After the oral defense, meet with your advisor for debriefing
and seek advice on how to revise your thesis.
15. Practice, practice, practice. Rehearse several times with the
equipment you will use for your presentation
Common project defense questions and answers
You can start writing your answer to these questions for your guide during the
presentation.
1. Why did you choose this topic?

Commonly this is the first question and you need to prepare a good response.
Mention your driving motivations for the study. State your research problem and
why you wanted to address it in embarking on your study.
2. Briefly, explain what your research project is all about?

To answer this question, understand completely your research work. If you were
asked to submit an abstract, basically repeat it.
3. What is the scope of the study?

Briefly state the specific aspects of your research topic that you choose to cover.
4. What is the significance of the study?

Simply state how your research work will help other researchers, educators,
organization practitioners, and policymakers. In short, citing the usability of your
research.
5. Did you bridge any gap from your study?

In this area, mention how your study addressed the existing
issues/problems/concerns that made you choose your topics.
6. What are your research variables?

This question is asked to find out if you know what your research project is all
about. Explain your independent and dependent variable(s) to show them you
grasp the concept of your research topic. Identify the variables in your project
topic, define and explain them.
7. What research methodology did you use?

This is usually chapter three of your project report. To respond to this question,
you should briefly state the research design procedure you adopted for the
research. Talk about the data collection methods and sampling techniques
employed in the research.
8. Why did you use that research methodology?

State the main reason for choosing your research methodology. For instance, you
used a survey research method, state your reasons to collect information from the
sample without influencing the population of the study.
9. Why do you think your research is reliable?

To answer this question, simply tell your audience/panelist that the threats to
research reliability (which are participant’s error, participant bias, research error,
and researcher bias) did not occur during the research.
10. Why do you think your research is valid?

To answer this question, simply tell your audience/panelist that the findings from
your study can be generalized to other relevant settings, groups, or case studies.
11. In what way(s) does your research project contribute to knowledge?

You may refer to the significance of the study. You talk about your research
objectives in addressing the problem. Briefly state that your project will advance
understanding in your research field.
12.What are the limitations encountered?
No research task is perfect. It is common for at least one issue to be identified. To
answer this question, communicate about the weaknesses that had been out of
your control.
13.What source of data was employed for the research?

Simply state the data collection methods that were used in the study. You should
state if primary sources such as questionnaires, interviews, observations, or
secondary sources such as textbooks, journals, articles, etc were used. If you
combined primary and secondary sources, briefly talk about it.
14.What are your findings?

Show the descriptive results from the study in a convincing and clear style. Make
sure your findings refer to your research objectives/questions.
15.Based on your findings what are your recommendations/suggestions?

This is where you talk about the importance and implications of your findings from
three levels namely:
a. Research (various ways other researchers can improve or refine the study)
b. Theory (the new contributions that you are adding to the body of knowledge) and
c. Practice (how the information gotten from your study can make practice better,
improve the operational procedures, solve problems, and improve policy-making,
etc.)
16. What is the strongest point in your project?

The duration of the oral defense might just be 10 - 15 minutes, as such the
questioners will not have the time to ask you about every detail. They will want to
focus on the major thoughts and ask you the most essential components of your
research. Be equipped to answer.
17. If you could change something regarding your study, what would it be?
You can get your answer from the limitations of your study. Consider the
constraints and the kind of data collection
18. Do you have any closing comments?

Thank the panel of assessors and let them know that the revisions/corrections that
were given (such as rewriting the conclusion, tables/graphs that are not in the
right format, something you said during the oral defense and they want you to
include it in the report or some other issues they noticed you did not capture)
would be implemented and shown to your supervisor.

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Brief Presentation: This is the visual version of your paper.

Introduction (typically 3-4 slides). Explain why your work is

Materials and Methods (typically 2-3slides). This is a clear

Acknowledgment (1 slide). Thank everyone who provided advice

1. Your evaluation is based on your presentation.

1. Why did you choose this topic?

2. Briefly, explain what your research project is all about?

3. What is the scope of the study?

4. What is the significance of the study?

5. Did you bridge any gap from your study?

6. What are your research variables?

7. What research methodology did you use?

8. Why did you use that research methodology?

9. Why do you think your research is reliable?

10. Why do you think your research is valid?

11. In what way(s) does your research project contribute to knowledge?

13.What source of data was employed for the research?

14.What are your findings?

15.Based on your findings what are your recommendations/suggestions?

16. What is the strongest point in your project?

18. Do you have any closing comments?

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