BASIC RELEVANT QUESTIONS FOR DEFENSE:

1. What is the edited and final title of your study?

Interpersonal Reactivity and Sense of Efficacy of Sangguniang Kabataan Officials: Basis
for Good Youth Governance
2. What is the previous title of your study?
Determining the Level of Interpersonal Reactivity and Sense of Efficacy among
Sangguniang Kabataan Officials of Municipality of San Pascual Batangas: A Benchmark
of Good Governance
3. What is the difference between self-efficacy and sense of efficacy? Why did you choose
one over the other?

4. Explain your title. (How is the first part related to the second?)

5. Define Sangguniang Kabataan based on your study.

It is a youth governance mechanism created by law, with its own budget and national
agency as secretariat. It is a league of youth pioneers elected to represent and convey
youth-centered administrations in barangays. They are used as the main subject of our
study.

6. Define interpersonal reactivity index based on your study

Is a measure of dispositional empathy that takes as its starting point, the notion that
empathy consists of a set of separate but related constructs.

7. Define Sense of Efficacy based on your study.

Is the consciousness or awareness of an individual for having the ability to produce a
desired or intended result. It also refers to people’s beliefs about their capabilities to
produce expected outcomes.

8. Define Benchmarking based on your study.

Is the process where a certain group of people or organization measure their success by
evaluating and comparing their strategies with other competitors.

9. Define Empathy based on your study.

Is often defined as understanding another person’s experience by imagining oneself in
that other person’s situation. In this study, empathy was used as one of the variables on
determining good youth governance.

10. What is the difference between empathy and interpersonal reactivity? Why did you
decide on including empathy in your study when in fact interpersonal reactivity can
already give the definition of empathy?

11. What are the variables in your study? State which are the independent and dependent
variables.
12. Are there mediating variables in your study?

13. Why did you choose descriptive and correlational as the research design for your study?

14. What is the relationship between interpersonal reactivity index and sense of efficacy in
your study?

15. Why did you choose a quantitative approach in your study? Why not qualitative?

16. Why is benchmarking included in your title? Is there any relevance of such words to the
study?

17. How many are your respondents? (how many are males and females?)
Our respondents are limited to 50 only. There are 34 males and 16 females. Males
outnumbered females in our study.

18. How did you come up with having few respondents?

19. Why did you choose to study the Sangguniang Kabataan? Why did you come up with
the idea of having young politicians as the main focus of your study?

20. Why did you choose San Pascual as the main area for your study? Why not other
places?

21. How did you gather data?

22. What is your research method?

23. Did you use self-made or standardized questionnaires? Explain.

24. How did you administer your questionnaires?

25. How did you validate your questionnaire?

26. What is/are the instruments that you’ve used in your study?

27. Where did you get the items in your instrument?

28. What is the uniqueness of your study or anong kaibahan ng study nyo sa ibang study?

29. Is your study significant to today’s society?

30. How did you come up and made your synthesis?

 31. What did you realize in your study? What are your greatest learnings that you had?

32. What is the most difficult part in conducting your study? What are the ways to improve?

33. Do you think your study makes sense and will make sense for the future generation and
researchers? How?

34. Explain briefly your conceptual framework

35. Where did you get or based your conceptual framework?

TECHNICAL QUESTIONS FOR DEFENSE:

1. How did you do your research? Explain the whole procedure.

2. What are the most significant findings that you have seen based on your results?

3. How consistent and valid are your findings to the research title?

4. Can you briefly discuss your problem in chapter 1?

5. What is the relevance of putting the socio-economic status of your respondents to your
study?

6. Give us some examples of your review of related literature and how it is connected to
your study.

7. Did you answer all of the questions in your SOP? How?

8. Have you included any local literature in your study?

9. Is your literature latest or up-to-date?

Our literature is mostly the latest. However, there’s an exception in some studies. For
example, we cannot avoid using Bandura’s study since he is the founder of the
concepts.

10. Why did you make an extension program?

11. What are the limitations and scope of your study?

12. What sampling technique did you use in your study?

13. Explain each recommendation of your study.

 14. What is/are the basis of your recommendations?

15. Did your instrument really measure what you are supposed to measure?

16. What do you think are the implications of your study in general?
17. What’s the basis of your output in the study?

18. Can your study or output be utilized in the current teaching modality?

19. What part of your study can prove that having a high sense of efficacy and reactivity
index help the Sangguniang Kabataan work effectively?

20. Explain your hypothesis? What is meant by saying that there is a significant relationship
in your variables?

21. How did the inclusion of good youth governance contributed to the justification of your
study?

22. Do you think your abstract is enough to provide an overview of your study?

23. How relevant is your review of related literature to your study?

24. Does your chapter 4 provide support to your review of related literature? Explain how.

25. Do you have a sample size in your study? How did you arrive at it?

26. What are the main issues/debates in your literature review?

27. Have you included in your literature the major theories and concepts connected with
your research?

28. Isthere any empirical or theoretical evidence in your study?

29. Did your theories fully support your results?

STATISTICS QUESTIONS:
1. What is the scoring that you’ve used in your study?

2. Did you use reverse scoring in your items as well? Why?

3. Why did you decide to use reverse scoring in interpersonal reactivity index only? Why
not in the sense of efficacy as well?
 4. How did you come up with the reliability of your items?

5. Explain each interpretation of your table.

6. Explain the distribution of your profile variables.

7. Why did you choose pearson product of moment correlation coefficient as your statistical
treatment? How does it suit your study?

8. Explain the relevance of frequency, weighted mean, percentage in your procedural

framework?

PARTS OF THE STUDY:

CHAPTER 1 - THE PROBLEM

Introduction
Statement of the Problem
Scope, Delimitation and Limitation of the Study
Significance of the Study

CHAPTER 2 - REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

Conceptual Literature
Research Literature
Synthesis
Conceptual Framework
Hypothesis
Definition of Terms

CHAPTER 3 - RESEARCH DESIGN AND PROCEDURE

Research Design
Participants of the Study
Data Gathering Instrument
Data Gathering Procedure
Statistical Treatment of Data

CHAPTER IV - ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA

CHAPTER V - SUMMARY, CONCLUSION, AND RECOMMENDATION

Summary
Findings of the Study
Conclusion
Recommendation
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