RESEARCH PAPER -
CHAPTER 5
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS,
CONCLUSION, AND
RECCOMENDATION
Contents
• Introduction
• Summary of Findings – In this discussion
assert that you have answered your
research questions.
• Conclusion
• Recommendations for Research
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
Present an overview of your study that
is comprehensive and concise. This
discussion will include a reminder of the
underlying problems and purpose of your
study, the research questions and a brief
description of the methods used in your
study
SAMPLE
This chapter discussed the results that
have been found out by the researchers in
the previous chapter. Together with all of
these data were the summary, conclusion
and the recommendations which can be
used for further study.
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
FINDINGS
The principal outcomes of a research
project; what the project suggested,
revealed or indicated. This usually refers to
the totality of outcomes, rather than the
conclusions or recommendations drawn
from them.
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
• Assert the findings for your study. The
findings should clearly reflect the
significant results of the study.
• There should be a brief statement about
the main purpose of the study, the
population or respondents, the period of
the study, method of the research used,
the research instrument, and the sampling
design.
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
• In the introduction for the Summary of
Findings, assert that you have answered
your research questions.
• At a minimum you would tell the reader
how many findings emerged and describe
them in a sentence each.
• Most important is the findings you present
in chapter 5 reflect and match what is
significant from the results in Chapter 4.
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
• A component of summary of the findings is
to provide a discussion for each of the
findings, using anchor verbiage that
justifies rather than distorts the intent of
the findings.
• Summary may be lumped together but
clarity demands that each specific
question under the statement of the
problem must be written first to be
followed by the findingsthat would answer
it.
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
• Tell how the findings are important or
relevant based on the aim and scope of
your study.
• Another component of the summary of the
findings is to compare or link your findings
to the studies outlined in the literature
review of your study.
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
• Findings are not explained nor elaborated
upon anymore. They should be stated as
concisely as possible.
• No new data should be introduced in the
summary of findings.
CONCLUSION
CONCLUSION
Conclusions are inferences, abstractions,
interpretations, general statements, and/or
generalization based upon the findings.
CONCLUSION
• No conclusions should be made that are
not based upon the findings.
• Conclusions illustrate your personal
reflections or insights into the continued
research of your topic.
• This discussion provides an overview on
the importance of the area of research.
CONCLUSION
• A component of the discussion could
demonstrate the consequences should
this research be ignored or how a specific
audience will benefit from the research.
• Another component of the discussion will
encourage others to continue to contribute
to a specific body of knowledge.
CONCLUSION
• Conclusions should be formulated
concisely, that is, brief and short, yet they
convey all the necessary information
resulting from the study as required by the
specific questions.
• Conclusions should refer only to the
population, area, or subject of the study.
• Conclusions should not be repetitions of
any statements anywhere in the thesis.
Dangers to avoid:
• Bias
• Incorrect generalization
• Incorrect comparison
• Misleading information
• Limited information
RECOMMENDATION
RECOMMENDATION
• These are appeals to people or entities
concerned to solve or help solve the
problems discovered in the inquiry.
RECOMMENDATION
• Draft Recommendations for Research
which extend or enhance your study.
– A component of the discussion demonstrates
how the recommendation for research is
linked to your study or would improve and
extend the research.
– Another component of the research would
identify specific gains in research based on
your recommendations. Provide links to the
literature when appropriate.
RECOMMENDATION
• Draft a paragraph or two of discussion for
each recommendation. In each
discussion, assert the Recommendation
for Research and provide insights for how
the recommendation would improve or
extend the research. Identify specific
gains in research based on your
recommendations.
RECOMMENDATION
• Recommendations should help solve the
problems discovered in the investigation.
• No recommendations should be made for
a problem, or anything of the matter, that
has not been discovered or discussed the
study.
• There may also be recommendations for
the continuance of a good practice or
system, or even recommendation for its
improvement.
RECOMMENDATION
• Recommendations should aim for the ideal
but they must be feasible, practical, and
attainable. It is useless to recommend the
impossible.
• Recommendations should be logical and
valid.
• Recommendations should be addressed
to the persons, entities, agencies, or
offices who or which are in a position to
implement them.
RECOMMENDATION
• There should be recommendation for
further research on the same topic in other
places to verify, amplify, or negate the
findings of the study.
