Final Project - Oral

The oral final project presentation will be made individually and should reflect the summative value added by your work. The final presentation will be limited to 3 minutes maximum. The purpose of the presentation is to clearly and succinctly identify the purpose of the project, what was found, and why the results of the project should be trusted, in addition to any particular implications, action items, or concerns.

The oral final project presentations will be graded by the instructor (via video) AND by the students' peers. The SAME presentation should be evaluated by the instructor and the peers, so peers who choose to present their work live to one another should record and submit that presentation for the instructor grade.

Peer evaluators for each student are the assigned student teams used for other assignments and courses in the EMPA program. Students who do not have an assigned peer group will be assigned to a team by the instructor.

Suggested outline for oral presentation:

Introduction and key question(s) to be addressed (motivation for study, key questions)

Data and methods (how data was collected, including levels of measurement, data sources, creation of indexes if any, and sampling methodology. How it was analyzed, including naming and justifying analytic techniques based on levels of measurement, basic descriptions of data and descriptive statistics, confidence intervals of dependent variable and key independent variable(s))

Findings (Clearly identify the research question and progress through analytic tools drawing intermediate conclusions and interpretations and culminate with a definitive answer to the question based on the data given. Generally should include at least one bivariate analysis and one multivariate analysis, though variations are possible)

Limitations of study (Thoroughly describe the limitations of the data and methods employed)

Conclusions/implications/recommendations (Implications and recommendations may include policy or management actions to be taken based on the results of the analysis or may be recommendations for improvement of the data collection and analysis procedures).

The oral presentation should be uploaded here for the instructor. Depending on the size of your file, you may post a link to YouTube or similar or upload the video file itself. Peer students will NOT have access to this file through Canvas, so you should make arrangements with your group for sharing of videos for peer grading.