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School Counseling Research: Advancing the Professional Evidence Base provides researchers working in school settings with strategies for conducting socially just school-based research. Whether someone is just beginning their scholarship or a veteran of multiple studies, this edited volume provides a wealth of knowledge from experts in the field to equip researchers with the conceptual knowledge and practical skills to conduct rigorous intervention research with schools. A main difference between this text and others is the clear and powerful connection between theory and practice--readers leave with knowledge about how to do the work.
List of contents
- Chapter 1: A Framework for Conducting School Counseling Research in the Current Educational Environment
- Chapter 2: Access to Schools: Relationships with Stakeholders and Systems
- Chapter 3: Ethical Research in Schools: Navigating the IRB Process at the District and University Levels
- Chapter 4: Research Questions that Contribute to Sound Study Designs for School Counseling
- Chapter 5: Developmental and Social Considerations When Conducting Research with Children and Adolescents
- Chapter 6: Using Assessment Instruments in School-Based Research
- Chapter 7: Research Design: Quantitative Approaches
- Chapter 8: Research Design: Qualitative Approaches
- Chapter 9: Research Designs: Action Research
- Chapter 10: Single Case Research Design: A Practical Option in School Counseling Research
- Chapter 11: Program Evaluation in Professional School Counseling
- Chapter 12: Ensuring Treatment Fidelity and Clean Data Collection
- Chapter 13: Data Analysis Procedures in School Counseling Research
- Chapter 14: Bridging the Research to Practice Gap
About the author
Brett Zyromski, PhD is Associate Professor, School Counseling Department, The Ohio State University. He is Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the annual National Evidence-Based School Counseling Conference.
Carey Dimmitt, PhD is Program Director and Professor, School Counseling Program, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is Director of the Ronald H. Fredrickson Center for School Counseling Outcome Research & Evaluation
Summary
This practical book provides researchers with strategies for conducting socially just school-based research. This comprehensive text provides a resource for those interested in conducting school counseling research within school settings. The volume includes a wealth of knowledge from expert scholars in the field to equip researchers with the conceptual knowledge and practical skills to conduct rigorous intervention research with schools.
School counseling researchers, counselor education doctoral students, district personnel, and those that review research will have a deep and rich source to support their evolving collaborative research in schools. The editors organize the book to walk readers through the process of creating successful research partnerships with schools that will result in ethical outcomes from their research efforts. Readers are guided through the process of conceptualizing ethical and socially just research in partnership with schools, how to create strong research questions and match those questions with corresponding data analysis approaches, and practical suggestions for how to do the research. The book concludes with steps for the researcher to successfully disseminate their research findings to scholars, school partners and stakeholders, and school counseling practitioners.
