RESEARCH QUESTIONS:

1. What is the importance of your study or how will it contribute or add up to the existing body
of knowledge?
Due to the growth of our economy in complexity and specialization, there is an ever-increasing
demand for more and better trained accountants. The performance of professional services
requires the exercise of sound judgment in applying professional knowledge and skill.
Professional competence in this case is divided into two separate phases: Attainment of
professional competence and Maintenance of professional competence. It is therefore crucial
for us to focus on the first phase. Hence, this study was conducted to determine the factors that
might affect academic achievement of accountancy students namely: personality traits,
aspirations, study habits, and proximity to school.

2. You may be asked to summarize your key findings of the research.

The results of our study shows that among our independent variables, aspirations, study habits,
proximity to school and three of the domains of personality traits namely conscientiousness,
agreeableness & openness all have no significant relationship with academic achievement.
While 2 of the domains of personality traits namely extraversion and neuroticism were found to
be significantly related to academic achievement.

3. What type of background research have you done for the study?
According to the results given by the PRC, BU landed on the 18th spot of the top school offering
accountancy program in the Philippines. The researchers took interest with this news and
decided to conduct the study in the academic settings. We found literatures related to our
choice of topic and decided to combine these.

4. What are the limitations you have faced while writing?

We have limited time to conduct an extensive length of our study, we also have limited
respondents considering that 1st year students have new curriculum.
We also had difficulties in finding reliable source for the GPA of the respondents.

We originally planned to obtain these grades directly from our respondents but it would result
to unreliable data. We then tried to obtain their GPA from the office of the registrar however it
would be difficult for them to retrieve the grades of our respondents considering that they have
broader database. Fortunately we were able to obtain a summary of GPA of our respondents
from the promotional report from the office of CBAA.

5. Why did you choose this particular method or sample for the study?
-for the research nature, we used descriptive method which involves collection of data in order
to associate the relationship among variables
 -for the research design, we used quantitative technique and the survey method was
implemented because a structured questionnaire is best serve to answer the questions and
purposes of the study
-for the research approach, we used the deductive design because this approach begins with a
theory or hypotheses and ends with either a confirmation or modification

6. What will you include if you are told to add something extra to the study?
Magbanggit ng recommendations.

7. What are the recommendations of your study?

Same

8. Who formed your sample and why you selected this particular age group?
None, the entire population was used.

9. What was your hypothesis and how you framed it?

Sabihin lang yungg hypothesis and nakabased siya SOP and states as null statement.

10. If given a chance, would like to do something different with your work?
No, because we were able to meet our objective of determining if those factors are significantly
related to academic achievement.

11. How did you relate your study to the existing theories?
2 theories, self-determination theory which measures how self-determined an individual is
depending on the individual’s motivation level this is related to our independent variables
namely aspiration and study habits. And we also used Big five or Five Factor Model which is the
most widely accepted measure of personality traits as numerous studies stated that this theory
is universal.

12. What is the future scope of this study?

Recommendations

13. What do you plan to do with your work after you have completed your degree?
We plan to adopt this study for pursuing our master degree sometime in the future

14. What are the research variables you used?

4 independent, 1 dependent

15. Do you have any questions to be asked?

What can you best recommend to us?

16. Did you evaluate your work?

We conducted a post-deadline evaluation of our work and we found some typographical errors
in our draft.
 We found out that:
-proximity to school (hindi nan a incorporate sa chapter 1 kasi additional independent variable)
-hypotheses 5 (hindi na remove)
-table of results ng personality traits (typo)

17. How would you improve your work?

Typo

18. Can you summarize your thesis in just a few sentences? (or even in a single sentence)
we can summarize the result in just 2 sentences but we can’t summarize the entire thesis.

19. What motivated you to undertake this research?

Top 18 BU and we really are interested with this topic

20. Who are the main researchers in this area?

Us.

21. Why is your research in this area important?

Same sa 1

22. Who will be interested in your research?

Major stakeholders: undergrad of accountancy & accounting-related courses

23. What do you recommend based on your findings?

Recomm

24. What are the implications of what you have found to society in general?
Importance na binaggit sa no.1

25. What are the most important papers related to your own research and how is yours different?
3 studies na pinagbasehan natin. Combined lahat to

26. Why did you select the research methodology that you used?
Design, nature, and approach. Same sa #5.

27. In hindsight should you have used a different methodology? (Beware they may be looking for
you to dig a hole for yourself to invalidate your conclusions and analysis.)
No.

28. Would you have discovered anything else if you had used a different approach?
No.

29. How do you know that what you have found is right?
It was provided to us by an expert from the field.
 30. What is the weakest part of your work?
Eto na lang din yung mga limitations kanina.

31. What would you suggest as future research and why?

Recomm

32. If you could start over what would you have done differently? (Again don’t dig a hole to fall
into.) None pa rin

33. What advice would you give to yourself if you could go back to the start of your research?
We would advise ourselves to just continue doing what they’re doing, because beside the
inherent limitations present in our study, we believe that we have already given the best of our
ability for the conduct of this study.

34. What you learned from the study you have done?
Results.

35. Why you chose this particular topic?

As fifth year BSA students, considering we are preparing for the board, we want to have
an overall picture of the different factors affecting our performance. This study can serve as the
wake-up call for us to strive harder and have the initiative to go beyond what is being offered by
the institution.

1. Why did you choose this topic?

This might be the first question you will be asked, and you need to have a good response. You
should talk about the motivations for the study. Talk about the research problem you wanted
to address which made you embark on the study.

2. Briefly, explain what your research project is all about?

To respond to this question, you need to fully understand your research project. Basically, be
able to repeat your abstract.

3. What is the scope of the study

Here you briefly state the specific aspects of your project topic that was covered.

4. What is the significance of the study?

To answer this question, you will need to state how your research work will help other
researchers, educators, organizations(like the case study used), practitioners and
policymakers.

5. Did you bridge any gap from your study?

Here you should talk about how your study addressed the existing problems/concerns that
made you carry out the research.

6. What are your research variables?

This question is asked in order to find out if you really know what your research project is all
about. Explain your independent and dependent variable(s) to show them you really grasp
the concept of your research topic. Identify the variables in your project topic, define and
explain them.

7. What research methodology did you use?

This is usually the chapter three of your project report. To respond to this question, you
should briefly state the research design procedure you adopted for the research. Talk about
the data collection methods and sampling techniques employed in the research.

8. Why did you use that research methodology?

This is where you state the reason(s) for the choice of research methodology used. For
example, if you used the survey research method, you can state reasons such as: no
interviewer bias, cost-effective, it enabled you (the researcher) to collect information from
the sample without influencing the population of the study e.t.c

9. Why do you think your research is reliable?

To answer this question, simply tell your audience/panel of assessors that the threats to
research reliability (which are participants error, participant bias, research error, and
researcher bias) did not occur during the research. Or you can simply say that you made sure
the threats were reduced to the barest minimum.

10. Why do you think your research is valid?

To answer this question, simply tell your audience/panel of assessors that the findings from
your study can be generalized to other relevant settings, group or case study.

11. In what way(s) does your research project contributes to knowledge?

This question is similar to your significance of the study. You should talk about how your
research is aimed at addressing a problem that was not addressed by previous researchers
in your field of study. You should also briefly state how your project will advance
understanding in your research field.

12. What are the limitations encountered

No research project is perfect. It is common for at least one limitation to be identified. To
answer this question, talk about the weaknesses that were out of your control. You can talk
about how weaknesses such as the short time frame for the research, lack of research
studies/materials on the topic, lack of available data, the combination of lectures, exam and
project research, limited sample size and selection, e.t.c impacted the analysis of your research
data.
13. Which programming language did you use to write your program? (for
computer science students)
State the programming language and database used in the development of your
software/program. If you did not design the program yourself or you were assisted by a friend
or colleague, find out from the person which programming language was used. You might also
ask the person to give you a crash course on the programming language.

14. Show us how your software works (for computer science

students)
Make sure you are familiar with how the software works. Also, be sure that
there are no errors in the software. Go ahead and show the panel of assessors
how the software functions. You can also show them some records which you
entered previously.

15. What source of data was employed for the research?

Here, you simply state the data collection methods that were used in the
study. You should state if primary sources such as questionnaires, interview,
observation OR secondary sources such as textbooks, journals, articles, e.t.c
were used. If you combined primary and secondary sources, briefly talk about
it.

16. What are your findings?

Show the descriptive results from the study in a convincing and clear style.
Make sure your findings refer to your research objectives/questions.
17. Based on your findings what are your
recommendations/suggestions?
This is where you talk about the importance and implications of your findings
from three levels namely:
1. Research (various ways other researchers can improve or refine the study)
2. Theory (the new contributions that you are adding to the body of
knowledge) and
3. Practice (how the information gotten from your study can make practice
better, improve the operational procedures, solve problems, improve policy
making e.t.c).
Note: Avoid the temptation to make recommendations that are not
supported by your findings. Do not recommend based on your beliefs.

18. What is the strongest point in your project?

The duration of the defense might just be 10 - 15 minutes, as such the
questioners will not have the time to ask you about every detail. They will
want to focus on the major ideas and ask you the most important aspects of
your research. Be ready to answer.

19. If you could change something regarding your study, what

would it be?
The answer to this question can be gotten from the limitations of your study.
You can give answers such as:
1. Given the constraints (like the short time frame for the research or lack of
sufficient funds) I was working with, this was what I was able to do but if I
could do more, this is what I would have done.
2. In doing this I learned a problem with this kind of data collection. Next
time, I will do it this way.

20. What questions do you have for us

You can ask them if there any revisions they want you to make in your report.
Ask them to summarize the major revisions, so you can take some notes.

21. Do you have any closing comments

Thank the panel of assessors and let them know that the
revisions/corrections that were given (such as rewriting the conclusion,
tables/graphs that are not in the right format, something you said during the
defense and they what you to include it in the report or some other issues
they noticed you did not capture) would be implemented and shown to your
supervisor.