Discussion A discussion is as structured as any other section of your report. Certain elements are meant to be in it. If they aren't you lose valuable marks. This would be a pity after all your hard work! To avoid this make sure you write it in something like the following sequence. Refer back to your Introduction, briefly reminding the reader the purpose of your investigation. Tell the reader what your results are (e.g. mother/father mean and median scores; related t-test result), and discuss what this all means,
Then explain your findings referring to some psychology e.g. intelligence, sex-role stereotyping/gender, perception and the self-concept. It is also useful in a Discussion section to refer to your descriptive statistics (graphs and charts) to back up what you say - otherwise what was the point of doing them! Use language like 'As can be seen from Fig x on page y, ….' Identify shortcomings in your investigation e.g. your design, method, sampling technique etc. Identify remedies/suggest improvements for the future: maybe a larger more representative sample (if you only used a sample of S5 and S6, your results can only at this stage be generalised to the whole population of S5/S6 in your school. Nobody else.) Identify future research e.g. is this gender influence on perceived IQ evident across all age groups in society. What might this mean? Etc. You are now just about finished. Lastly in the report proper comes your Conclusion. Click here to Continue on to Conclusion Or Here to go back to the Results |
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