Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations
Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations
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Chapter 5
Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations
This chapter is considered as the most interesting and also important part of the
research paper where the whole research study is summarized, and appropriate generalizations
in the form of conclusion are presented and the solutions to the problems are offered in the
form of recommendation.1
It is commonly titled Summary and Discussion. An older style users the title Conclusions
and Recommendations. The title presently used seems more accurate, however, since many
studies include neither conclusion nor recommendations. 2
In Chapter 5, the researcher presents the interpretation of the results given in Chapter
4. Also the researcher draw conclusion from the analysis of those results and then make
recommendation based on the analysis. In short it is where the researcher tells the reader what
the result mean and what actions should be taken in the result of the findings. 3
CHAPTER 5
SUMMARY
The Summary is an overview of the study, also includes brief and concise statement of
the general objective or main purpose as well as the specific problems of the study, the
significance of the study, the methods of research used including the respondents involved in
the study; as well as the research instruments and sampling design techniques utilized in the
whole process of research. It also includes textual and numerical summary of important data
and significant results or findings of the study especially upon which the conclusion is based. 4
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Summary is a reconstruction of the major point or points of development of a text,
beginning with the main ideas, followed by the points or details that support on that idea.
QUALITIES OF A SUMMARY
3. Write a paragraph (or more): begin with the overall summary sentence and follow it
with the paragraph summary sentences.
4. Rearrange and rewrite the paragraph to make it clear and concise, to eliminate
repetition and relatively minor points, and to provide transitions. The final version
should be a complete, unified, and coherent whole
1. Outline the text. Break it down into its major sections--groups of paragraphs focused
on a common topics--and list the main supporting points for each section.
3. Formulate a single sentence to summarize the whole text, looking at the author's
thesis or topic sentences as a guide.
4. Write a paragraph (or more): begin with the overall summary sentence and follow it
with the section summary sentences.
5. Rewrite and rearrange your paragraph(s) as needed to make your writing clear and
concise, to eliminate relatively minor or repetitious points, and to provide transitions.
Make sure your summary includes all the major supporting points of each idea. The final
version should be a unified, complete, and coherent whole.
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Characteristic of Summary
Summary of findings should be a short statement such as the main purpose of the study,
the population or respondents, period of the study, method of research used, research
instrument and sampling design
Findings should be written in textual generalization, that is, a summary of the important
data consisting of text and numbers.
Increase the clarity to the summary section by using appropriate transitional cues using
sequencing words, such as first, also, next, finally. Also number the general findings or use
bullet to highlight the findings. 5
EXAMPLE OF SUMMARY
Summary
This research study used the available resources on hand to be able to incorporate the
technology aspect with the education milieu and as it progressed, data gathered and
collated, it was possible to infuse food dehydration in the restructured basic education
curriculum for the secondary level first through the teachers of the Makabayan subject. It is
through diffusion theory that the basis of integrating food dehydration in the Makabayan
learning area has been conceptualized. Therefore, the research’s premise centers on the
conditions of the likelihood that an innovative idea may be adopted in a given culture or
system such as the Philippines’ secondary school education system And as mentioned, the
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viability of fabricating a food dehydrator for small scale livelihood can also be taught in the
secondary level as an adjunct to the food dehydration subject. This aspect of the research
study compliments the central objective of secondary education, that is, to provide young
people with opportunities to acquire skills, aptitude, values, knowledge and experience
needed to continue their education and be active and productive citizens.
In the secondary analysis of data from the experimental results of the previous
prototype unit, simultaneous multiple regressions were used to compare the values that
were calculated based on the output measured. In the statistical analysis, discrepancies in
the percentage moisture removed were discovered and can be attributed to the conditions
and materials of construction of the dehydrator unit, the very factors that influence the
outcome of the experiments that were performed.
The research study made use of a simulation program to predict moisture removal from
a hypothetical feed of food data from three fruit pieces, namely pineapple, banana and
mango based on the weight and temperature within the drying chamber.
A manual outline that can be of use to elementary and secondary school teachers to
facilitate the learning paradigm espouse by this research study.
A brief about a systems approach starting a farm or family entity in the food
dehydration business and operation.
CONCLUSIONS
These are the conclusion drawn from the findings, it includes general statements,
inferences, generalization/s and implications based in the findings or results of the study. It is
usually derived from the hypotheses or assumptions of the study. The conclusion should be
guided against biases and partialities, incorrect generalizations, deductions and misleading
impressions. Concluding statement should be expressed in objective, concise, clear and
straightforward manner. 7
Characteristic of Conclusion
Conclusion should concise, brief and short yet express all the necessary information
resulting from the study as required by the specific questions.
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The question raised at the investigation should be properly answered by the conclusion.
Conclusion should indicate what were learned from the inquiry. On the other hand, it
should not be drawn from the implied or indirect effects of the findings.
Conclusion should not be the duplications of any statements anywhere in the thesis. It
can be summarized but it is necessary to worded differently and express the same
information as the statements review
The use of qualifiers including as probably, perhaps, may be, and the like should be
avoided as much as possible so that reader may not feel that the researcher has some
doubts about their validity and reliability. It should be written as they are 100% true
and correct.
Conclusion should refer only to the population, area or subject of the study.
Conclusion should be based upon the findings. There is no conclusions are not based
upon the findings. It should be logical and valid outgrowths of the findings.
These are brief, generalized statements in answer to the general and each of the specific
sub-problems. These contain generalized in relation to the population. These are general
inferences applicable to a wider and similar population. Flexibility is considered in making of
conclusions. It is not a must to state conclusions on a one-to-one correspondence with the
problems and the findings as all variables can be subsume in one paragraph. Conclusions may
be used as generalizations from a micro to a macro-level or vice versa.
The first is to talk about whether or not the research project that you undertook
achieved its aims.
Next, continue to relate the results of your dissertation project to the real world by
talking about any recommendations that you can make based on what you have learned
Also, make any observations that you can at this point about the research process itself .
TIPS:
Make the significance brought out in the conclusion congruent with the argument of
your paper.
Bring closure to the entire paper, not only by summarizing the arguments, but also by
bringing out the significance of the paper .
Use key terms, concepts and phrases from the introduction and body of the paper—but
don’t just repeat them .
Make the tone of the conclusion match the tone of the rest of the paper.
Put your best writing skills into the conclusion, especially if you are writing a thesis or
dissertation.
*When writing a 20-page paper, limit the conclusion to one full paragraph. You might
take two or three paragraphs to narrow down to the finish line, but you should pack the
final punch into only one paragraph.
Conclusion should dovetail with the findings of the study. If there are four summarized
results in the findings, there are also four conclusions. 8 This section gives an opportunity to
discussion the meaning of the result beyond what they mean statistically.
EXAMPLE OF CONCLUSION
Conclusion
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Among the teachers’ knowledge bases (Shulman,1987), pedagogical content knowledge
is uniquely their province, their own special form professional understanding and how to
impart the learning specifics to their students as adjudge by this researcher will be of
primary importance in the diffusion of a new learning concept to its end recipient, the
secondary school students . In this research study, the adaptation of the food dehydration
process is expected to provide secondary school teachers a degree of ownership in filling up
a certain need to expand the students’ acquisition of knowledge that can be applied and
practiced.
Although instructional innovations, such as new methods and new materials do reach
individual classrooms via the initiative of individual teachers, they are not usually
implemented in a coordinated way because many are not actively supported by school
managers. It is in this belief that for the Makabayan learning area to be a vehicle of change
not only to the students but to the teachers as well, this study concludes that successful
management of changes to the instructional environment of schooling requires the re-
positioning of teachers as innovators. Therefore, central to the production, implementation
and evaluation of new instructional methods is the change in the teacher’s view of teaching
and learning. In the case of the Makabayan subject, the teachers became mere
implementers of the top-down policy in education. This explains the confusion that
happened in the Makabayan learning area.
After the results were analyzed based on the calculated and simulated values from the
previous experimental output, this research makes the following conclusions:
a) In the calculated values from the experiments previously performed, there were
factors that were not taken into consideration. For instance, when the temperature was
lowered, there was still a perceived amount of moisture removed that does not correlate
with the simulated percentage removed where it follows the increase and decrease in
temperature during the dehydration process.
b) By calculation, the residual moisture left from the test specimen can be attributed
to the variance of temperature and heated air velocity within the drying chamber.
The economic aspect or the estimated cost of the modified design of the proposed
dehydrator was included in the appendices but the materials of construction will be
included in the recommendations. As an innovation, food dehydration craft technology has
to be approached from an instrumentalist (adopter-based) perspective, the adopted being
the secondary school teachers. Therefore, a manual outline is included to serve as guide in
the possible infusion of food dehydration technology into the Makabayan subject. The
manual contains experiments that can be adopted and performed with ease by the target
recipients of this research study.
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RECOMMENDATIONS
These should be based on the conclusions, the Recommendations are usually
statements that offer solutions to the issues or problems presented and discussed in the study.
No statement should make as part of the recommendations which have not been included or
discussed in the research study.
Characteristics of Recommendations
It should be addressed to person, entities or agencies, or offices who or which are ready
to implement them.
It can have recommendation for further research on the same topic but different places
to verify the findings of the study.
There should no recommendation for the problem or the things not yet discovered or
discussed.
Recommendations are based on the conclusions. This is arranged as they appear in the
findings and conclusions. In addition, recommendations must include further research of the
study. If there are four research questions in Chapter 1 and answered these four questions in
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Chapter 4, summarized the four findings and conclusions in Chapter 5, there are five
recommendations because the FIFTH RECOMMENDATION is for further research. 11
EXAMPLE OF RECOMMENDATION
Recommendations
After a thorough analysis of data, the following recommendations are hereby made:
1. This research study suggests that education managers study diffusion theory for
three reasons. First, education managers and instruction technologists’ do not know
why most instructional innovations are or not adopted. Some blame teachers and a
resistance to change while the others blamed bureaucracies and lack of funding. In
the Philippine context, it’s more a case of lack in funding and political interference,
but by and large, schools are commonly viewed as resistant to change. By studying
diffusion theory, education managers may be able to explain, predict and account
for factors that influence or impede adoption and diffusion of innovations in
teaching methods. Therefore, understanding the best way to present innovations for
possible adoption of a method is through communication channels. Third, education
managers may be able to develop a systematic model for innovative methods in
teaching not only the basic courses but in the Makabayan learning area which is one
of the study area of this body of research, in simple terms: INNOVATIVENESS =
RESOURFULNESS + ADAPTABILITY
In the food dehydration craft technology area of this research study, the
recommendations to the new design conceived are the following:
b) an additional circuit system designed to control the voltage input to the heating
element for a stable hot air supply;
d) the blower fans to be used should be regulated as low, medium and high for
better regulation of the relative humidity inside the drying chamber;
e) if the prototype dehydrator has been built, experimentations should be done on
a variety of foods to test its efficacy to deliver the desired output.
From the design simulation, the following materials of construction are needed:
System Design
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bibliography s third to the last part if a research paper, thesis or dissertation. This is the
listing source materials used in the study which researcher has read or quoted brief statements
and acknowledged. The surname of authors are arranged in alphabetical other. This page
followed the recommendations and is placed at the middle heading of a page and in all capital
letters. 13
FUNCTIONS OF BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bibliography functions and these are:
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For a book:
Author (last name first). Title of the book. City: Publisher, Date of publication.
EXAMPLE:
Dahl, Roald. The BFG. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982.
For an encyclopedia:
Encyclopedia Title, Edition Date. Volume Number, "Article Title," page numbers.
EXAMPLE:
Jordan, Jennifer, "Filming at the Top of the World." Museum of Science Magazine. Volume 47,
No. 1, (Winter 1998): p. 11.
For a newspaper:
Author (last name first), "Article Title." Name of newspaper, city, state of publication.
(date): edition if available, section, page number(s).
EXAMPLE:
Powers, Ann, "New Tune for the Material Girl." The New York Times, New York, NY. (3/1/98):
Atlantic Region, Section 2, p. 34.
For a person:
Full name (last name first). Occupation. Date of interview.
EXAMPLE:
Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia: Macintosh version, 1995. "Civil rights movement," p.3.
Compton's Newsmedia.
Magazine article:
Author (last name first). "Article title." Name of magazine (type of medium). Volume
number, (Date): page numbers. If available: publisher of medium, version, date of issue.
EXAMPLE:
Rollins, Fred. "Snowboard Madness." Sports Stuff (CD-ROM). Number 15, (February 1997): pp.
15-19. SIRS, Mac version, Winter 1997.
Newspaper article:
Author (last name first). "Article title." Name of newspaper (Type of medium), city and
state of publication. (Date): If available: Edition, section and page number(s). If
available: publisher of medium, version, date of issue.
EXAMPLE:
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Stevenson, Rhoda. "Nerve Sells." Community News (CD-ROM), Nassau, NY. (Feb 1996): pp. A4-5.
SIRS, Mac. version, Spring 1996.
Online Resources
Internet:
Author of message, (Date). Subject of message. Electronic conference or bulletin
board (Online). Available e-mail: LISTSERV@ e-mail address
EXAMPLE:
APPENDIX
In this part, added materials, documents or notes are presented here. An appendix in a
thesis or dissertation (if you include it) contains important information that serves as additional
explanations. 15
This part of your project includes so-called visual aids and some additional information
that helps to get your work better.
Things that are referred to as visual aids and that should appear in a dissertation
appendix are diagrams, graphs, tables, maps, some pictures and calculations, etc.
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Other information that can be important to understand your project:
Raw data appears in appendices, while analyzed and summarized data is presented in
the body of your paper.
CURRICULUM VITAE
In the United States, a curriculum vitae, often called a CV or vitae is used when applying
for academic and research positions, fellowships, and grants.
A CV is longer than a résumé (at least two pages) and represents your accomplishments,
areas of expertise, and professional skills in a detailed and organized manner. It is best to
discuss any special CV formatting your field may require with a mentor or trusted member in
your department (i.e., faculty member or adviser). As with a résumé, you may need different
versions of a CV for different types of positions.
Vitae Categories
Education
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Degree, major, institution (city & state), and date of completion (or expected date of
completion). List the most recent or expected degree first, writing in reverse chronological
order.
Dissertation or Thesis
Competencies/Expertise
Professional Experience
This section will be divided into multiple categories to highlight academic work and
contributions. Subcategories
Research
Service/Engagement
Professional Development
List special trainings or conferences attended to develop professional skills. For example:
Preparing for Future Faculty training, WebCT Vista Technology training, or SPSS Statistical
Software competency.
Other Categories
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