Interim draft of research project write-up 11/18

Travis Conte

Patricia Andrews

Media, Politics & Society 

November 4, 2010

Research Project

 Is Obama a good leader?

Introduction

The beauty of a democracy is how people are free to share their honest opinions, thus always trying to improve society. Since the recession President Barrack Obama has been loved and hated by millions and millions of people. If one loves him or hates him this is not the goal of this research project. The goal of this research project is to determine the students of Notre Dame de Namur University’s view on America since President Obama has been elected to office and if he has positively effected the country. This is a quantitative experiment which will leave us the results not of opinion but of true beliefs of the students. Since the inauguration of President Obama do you feel America has improved? Has Obama improved America? This evidence will hopefully lead us to truly view if the president is looked at as a great leader in America. 

Hypothesis 

Since I have heard of Obama I have heard many things about him people love him, they hate him, and everything in between. I feel that even though we live on a democratic side of the country, we at NDNU are lucky to be small yet have so many different views of the president from all around the world.  It is like doing a small survey of the entire country however just on smaller level. The hope of this survey will be to determine if Obama as a leader has positively effected this country. I feel that Obama will be looked at as a positive leader overall. 

Survey Description 

When writing the survey questions I thought it would be best that the names of the students were left out to protect the students. When conducting the survey I used the good old fashioned method of walking. I will ask six questions and of these questions I feel that this will help determine if President Obama is a good leader in NDNU’s students opinions. I will only be conducting this experiment with undergrad students at Notre Dame de Namur University. I will conducting 25 survey’s from each grade level, so in total 100 students. This will give me 20% of the students and a good balanced survey results. Pervious before the survey I will determine what grade they are in to make sure I hit my goal of 25 students from each grade. 

BEGINNING OF SURVEY

I WILL Explain: My name is Travis Conte and I am conducting a survey that will help determine NDNU undergrad perspective of President Obama as a leader. I would like to ask you a couple simple questions which all answers will remain anonymous. May I ask you a few questions?

Questions:

1. Where did you move from to come and study NDNU?
1. In State
2. Out of State
3. Out of Country 
2. Do you like President Barrack Obama?
1. Yes
2. No
3. To which political party do you belong too?
1. Republican
2. Democrat
3. Other ___________________
4. Do you feel that the President’s “Universal Health Plan” is good for society?
1. Yes 
2. No
5. Do you feel that Obama’s  “Bailout Plan” is good for society?
1. Yes
2. No
6. Do you feel that President’s decision to remove are armed forces from overseas is good for society?
1. Yes
2. No

Next I need to gather data and then present it in a essay type presentation which will include graphs and also the raw data. all of the data will be analyzed. 

Graphs-to be made

charts-to be made

analysis of data to be recorded in the conclusion