Thesis

Question: To what extent has preparing your presentation contributed to your understanding of your topic?

Rating Scale: ( 0 = No Impact and 10 = Major Impact)

Out of 235 people who presented at the conference, 65 completed the pre-conference survey and 45 completed the post-conference survey. However out of the data submitted only 39 records were usable.

Participant	Pre-Conference Survey (23)	Post-Conference Survey (33)	Briefly explain how preparing your presentation has impacted your understanding of your topic (Post 34)
02	7	4	I knew what was going on before I prepared my poster and talk so it didn't help much.
03	10	4	My knowledge increased when I originally wrote the story for my ED 310 class and I learned more as I prepared for the conference, so I would be more comfortable and confident.
04	7	8	It has greatly increased my understanding of the topic becuase I was able to read other studies that dealt with similar projects and compare my results with theirs.
05	9	7	It helped my understanding of the topic as I had to reduce the information to a "layman's" level, which is exactly what will need to be done when presenting the research to the City Council.
06	10	5	There really is no advanced preperation for impromptu, however the more you do it the better that you get at it. So it always helps to continue to do this type of speaking.
07	7	6	I just made the presentation by consulting the base material from my notes.
08	4	5	I had to go back and look at this topic again, which allowed me to see things I did not see before.
09	5	5	It was a good review/refresher of my topic as i completed this paper last spring (2001)
10	9	9
11	7	10
12	5	5	I did learn more about the PCCP program, but like i said, we were given a lot of the info and we just did the transcribing and data taking. .
13	4	4	It really did not have much impact because I all ready had an understanding of my topic. Preparing for the conference was auxilliary.
14	10	5	The presentation gave me an understanding of how to explain it to others. I think that I understood the topic well, beforehand.
15	8	10	I feel a lot more comfortable doing my own peices for people.
16	9	8	Reading reference material provided a good backround on the subject I presented on
17	10	0
18	0	10
19	10	7	none
21	10	10	If you count preparing to compete all year, it helped with everything. I would have known nothign about the medical uses of vinegar without my speech. However, I did not put any extra effort into this conference besides what I did to prepare for nationa
22	4	7
23	10	8	It made me think more about the topic and double check things to make sure that they were right and that there was no conflicting evidence.
24	10	10	I started my research into music therapy as a personal quest. At the time I started at the beginning of this school year, I was toying with the idea of going on to study music therapy after finishing here. Now that I know a lot about it, I definately wa
25	3	6	It helped to put it all togather
26	9	6	Because it was a group presentation I was able to hear what the other researchers did this past year...thus allowing me understand all aspects of our research. It seemed more complete with their data.
28	5	7	We had to figure out what was not important and to explain what we knew into non-jargon terms
29	6	5	My topic was one that has been gone over repeatedly in many of my classes. Because of this I was presenting data that I already knew about.
30	10	10	It was a topic that I had never researched before. By obtaining the necessary information, I obviously gained insight to the topic.
31	8	5	Same as before, I had already written the paper and knew a fair amount of the topic beforehand.
32	10	9
33	5	1	It was my second year on it, so I know the material very well.
34	2	8	Learned a lot more than I thought I would.
35	5	2	My understanding of the topic came from writing the paper last semester. The presentation was just of my results, so it had no real impact on my understanding of the material.
36	6	9	I did most of my research in preparation for the conference rather than the actual paper since the conference was before the paper due date.
37	5	6	had to prepare to the max in case ?'s arose...needed to be prepared
38	9	8	By doing this research it has helped me to better understand the topic, as I believe that the more educated people are about something the better the understanding they have of it.
39	5	9	I was able to understand my data better since I did all of the analysis.
40	7	8	Doing a presentation on the subject forced me to dig a little deeper and understand my topic better because I wanted to put together a very professional presentation.
41	5	0
42	2	2	I learned most of what I new from other conferences and summits. For the A.C. I just pulled everything together.