General Instructions
Written Presentation
• Written presentation should flesh out your project with considerable
detail… all of the how’s and why’s
• Submit written project as a pdf document
• Each section should be clearly labeled with a center heading that is
underlined
• All pages (with the exception of the cover page) should be numbered
in the lower right corner (use footer)
• LABEL all charts, graphs, and tables
Sections
• Your written report needs to include the following sections.
• Each section should have its own heading (underlined and centered)
• Abstract (on its own page)
• Introduction
• Research Question
• Methodology
• Bias and Limitations
• Assumptions and Conditions
• Analysis
• Conclusions
Cover Page
Needs to include:
1. Title of the project
2. Course number/name
3. Professor’s Name
4. Date of submission
5. Names of all team members with the team captain’s name
being listed first
Use this format
for the cover page
Abstract
A one-page summary of everything in your investigation. It MUST
include a very brief:
1. Overview of introduction
2. Overview of methodology
3. Overview of statistical results
4. Overview of conclusions
Introduction
• State your substantive question.
• Give the background of your investigation.
• What inspired EACH of you to choose your topic?
• What did you want to find out? Why?
• Discuss and summarize any sources (remember to cite them) that
may have helped you in your decision about your topic
Research Question
• State your research question
• Write your hypotheses both in words and mathematical symbols
• What is the population to which you hope to generalize your results?
Methodology
• Where did your sample come from? Why?
• Provide a clear description of your sampling method
• Which method did you choose? Why?
• How many cases did you choose? Why?
• What test are you going to use? Why?
Biases and Limitations
• Describe any challenges/problems you had.
• Did you realize after the fact that you should have collected different
data? asked different questions? Gotten additional information?
• What biases came into play?
• How might biases have affected your outcomes?
• Discuss the implications of Type I and Type II errors.
• If any of your conditions were not met, explain bias that was
introduced.
Assumptions and Conditions
• Detailed discussion about assumptions you are making about
your data.
• Detailed discussion about conditions that allow you to use point
estimates as valid estimators of your population(s)
• How did you determine independence? What were your
conclusions?
• How did you determine normalcy? What were your
conclusions?
Analysis
1. Organize and present your raw data. (raw data matrix)
2. Show your data distribution using appropriate tables and graphs. Explain your tables and
graphs.
3. Give the summary statistics that describe your data. Explain what each
statistic means.
4. Name the analysis test(s) you used and why you chose to use them for
what you were estimating or testing.
5. Show calculations or how you used technology to calculate (okay to
embed “screenshots” from spread sheets).
6. Address such things as confidence levels, standard error, p–values, etc).
7. Interpret the statistics.
8. Statistically, interpret your analysis: what is the statistical answer to your
statistical question? Why?
9. Discuss the potential impact of Type I and Type II errors
Conclusions
• Answer your substantive question
• Recap your statistical interpretation in detail.
• Use your statistical conclusions AS WELL AS other factors related to
investigative design and methodology
• Weigh both the statistical conclusions and the influences of other
factors
• Discuss the practical solution(s) based on your statistical solution.
• What are the implications of your results?
• What future study, if any, do you recommend?
• What other recommendations do you have?
• Turn your data into new knowledge
• Justify your opinions with statistical analysis
