Group presentation

Your group will present the final results of your study to the class. Everyone should be involved in the presentation in some way, but not everyone in the group has to speak. One grade will be assigned for the entire group.

In your presentation, you need to use PowerPoint or similar slides and address the following:

1. The title of the study and your names

2. The problem (why is this something to study?)

3. Background information (give a summary of 2-4 studies that are most similar to yours and what they found)

4. Current study (the purpose of your study—how it differs from previous research—and what your  hypotheses are)

5. Method (who were the participants and what did they do—this may be 1-3 slides)

6. Results (what were your main results?—actually show the data—show graphs, correlations, etc.)

7. Limitations (what were some limitations or reasons that you might not have gotten what you expected if so?)

8. Conclusions (what can we conclude from your study?)

Citations should be on each slide where needed (i.e., where you talk about a study or measure from the literature)

You should have no more than 10 slides total. The presentation should take no more than 10 minutes. You will also have up to 5 minutes of questions from the class and instructor.

Criteria for grading:

1) content (see above)

2) Clarify of slides (no typos, not too much information—generally no more than 6 bullets, few words per bullet)

3) presentation style (clear, understandable, looking at the audience, not speaking too fast or too slowly, few “ums,” showing confidence

4) ability to answer questions (ability to correctly answer questions)

Link to grading rubric