THE NEW KCSE PROJECT GUIDELINES PART 4: REPORT STRUCTURE

Report Structure

This is a summary of all the work you did (past tense). It should briefly tell the reader everything he/she needs to know about the research hypothesis, methods used to gather data, overview of significant findings and final conclusion.

• Explain what each chapter (subheading) of the project is supposed to do in a paragraph.
• What was the aim of the project?
• Who you sampled?
• What methods of data collection did you use?
• What are some of the things that you have found out from your fact finding? i.e., what did the results show?
• What was your overall conclusion?
• What was recommended?

Example:

The report is aimed at looking at the problems of the said local authority, and how to introduce a computerized one.
Data will be collected by means of a questionnaire or an interview schedule. A total of 30 respondents comprising of the managers, workers of the council and residents served by the local authority will be randomly sampled, and will be expected to respond to the questionnaire.

• The data collection process revealed that, ………………………………………………….
• From the findings, it was concluded that ……………………………………………………...
• It was recommended that …………………………………………………………..

Note. It should be less than one side of A4.

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