Contents

Your class project presentation should include all the major components of your final paper:

  1. Background, research problem/questions, research hypotheses: Describe the background of your research project, drawing from existing research or from practical sources, set up your research problem/questions and their significance (why it is worthy of investigation & why people should care), and from your research questions formulate your hypotheses;

  2. Data sources, descriptive stats of key variables: Describe the basic information of the data set(s) of your project - sources, vintage, variables (information) included, and appropriate descriptive stats with tables and charts of the key variables of interest;

  3. Results of appropriate inferential analysis of hypotheses: present results of the relevant inferential stats you conduct to test your research hypotheses;

  4. Conclusion, implications, & discussion: Conclude your presentation with a summary of your decisions regarding the research hypotheses based on your inferential stats, the implications of your analysis, and finally a discussion of the limitations of your data and analysis and/or future work.

Length

Your presentation should be no more than 15 minutes, followed by 5 minutes for questions and answers.

Schedule

Please upload your slides to D2L (or share a link if you use Google Slides) by noon of your scheduled presentation date.

Tue, 6/5

  1. Maryam
  2. Shen
  3. Dana
  4. Jennifer M.

Tue, 6/12

  1. Sarah
  2. Henry
  3. Alice
  4. Jordan
  5. Nick
  6. Ansel
  7. Jennifer R.
  8. Baxter
  9. Aliza
  10. Qingyang