1. How will you connect your study with your strand?

(disregarding the respondents) - When you first hear our title,

you might think that our study is somehow connected in the
ABM strand. But it's not. Our variables are related with science
and has something to do with the technology.
2. Is your study worth publishing? - Though it is true that there
are still room for improvements, we are confident to say that
our research is worth publishing because it may benefit a lot of
people especially consumers and future researchers. We are
also confident to say that our study is well written and the data
we gathered is well presented.
3. Despite having similar studies with others, what makes
your study stand out/different? - Despite having similar studies
with others, we are confident enough to say that our study is
unique and different. There are probably many studies existing
like this but their sample is likely to be more general or it refers
to the whole like the entire east Asia or America. But there are
probably no or very few studies that are specifically from
Bulacan.
4. In a few sentences, how could you explain your research to
us. / what is your study all about - As we all know the world is
currently facing a global health crisis and the access of people
to their daily necessities has been limited. Because of this the
behavior of the consumers have been changed. Our study aims
to determine the impact of community lockdowns and also to
identify the changes in the behavior of the consumers. In order
to do that, we utilized quantitative research design to process
numerical data and to gather information through validated
surveys.
5. What is your motivation? - It's evident that online shopping
is the trend right now. The people have switched from
traditional shopping to online shopping because it is more
convenient and more protected from harm. However, with all
the situations going in, the consumers' behavior has changed. It
is our aim to indentify the impact of lockdowns to consumers'
online shopping behavior.
6. What was the most challenging aspect of your research? -
For us, the most challenging aspect of our research is the
distiribution of surveys. It was hard finding respondents that
are aged 40+ and above because they are not usually active on
social media. We also had a hard time in choosing our statistical
treatment.
7. What are the weak points of the study? - The topic in our
study is something that is very new, which are the pandemic
and online shopping. The weakness of our study may be the
fact that it is newly conducted and the reliability of it might
quickly expire because there is always new information coming
in. And our only source of information is the internet only.
8. Contradicting parts of your rrls
9. Why did you choose this title? - As you can see, there's a
term "Add To Cart" in the beginning of our title. We made it like
that so it would look catchy because we believe that having a
catchy title will attract other people's attention. We also made
it short as possible.
10. What will you change if you would be given a chance to
conduct this study again. - If we were given a chance to
conduct this study again, we will change some little mistakes
that were corrected by Ma'am Cang. We know that making
mistakes or errors is part of the process, but we want to make
our research as perfect as it can be.
11. What were the ethical issues.
12. How would you summarize your study in a few sentences.
- As we all know the world is currently facing a global health
crisis and the access of people to their daily necessities has
been limited. Because of this the behavior of the consumers
have been changed. Our study aims to determine the impact of
community lockdowns and also to identify the changes in the
behavior of the consumers. In order to do that, we utilized
quantitative research design to process numerical data and to
gather information through validated surveys.
13. Are you aiming for best in research? - We are not saying
that we are not aiming but if it were be given to us it would
really be a nice graduation gift. It would really be an honor for
us and also to our section, and it would make us feel like all of
our hard works really did pay off. But of course, we're sure that
all of us did a great job and we all did our best so whoever may
get that title would be fine to us. But right now, our focus is
how to defend our research paper and how it would be
presented in the most proper way to all of you our dear
panelists.
14. what are the gaps that you are trying to fill in (same
question lang tong dalawa) why did you conduct this study -
Online shopping has been essential to many individuals since
the start of community lockdowns. However, it is evident that
this pandemic has affected many things negatively, and one of
them is the change in consumers' online shopping behavior.
Our aim is to determine the impact of community lockdowns to
consumers' online shopping behavior.
15. why is your research important - Our research is important
because it discusses a very relevant topic and it could benefit a
lot of people including consumers, online sellers, future
researchers and etc. This study will help them to undertand the
importance of practicing proper buying behavior and could aso
be a guide for future researchers in their future studies
regarding the similar topic.
16. what are your findings - THEY DO NOT EXHIBIT SUCH
BEHAVIORS BEFORE LOCKDOWNS. THESE HABITS OCCURED AS
A RESULT OF A DRASTIC SHIFT IN THE ENVIRONMENT WHICH
CAUSED EVERYONE TO BE FEARFUL OF RUNNING OUT
NECESSITIES. - MAJORITY OF PEOPLE HAVE BECOME MORE
CAUTIOUS OF WHERE THE PRODUCT WILL COME FROM. HALF
OF THE CONSUMERS AVOIDED PRODUCTS FROM CHINA.