Counseling Research and Program Evaluation

1. What Is Research and Why Is It Important to Counselors? 2. Varieties of Research. 3. Program Evaluation: A Variety of Applied Research Context and Resource Questions. 4. Program Evaluation: Process and Product Questions Dissemination and Utilization. 5. Ethical Research Practices. 6. Formulating the Mission. 7. Planning the Project. 8. Design Principles. 9. Design Risks and Remedies. 10. Collecting the Data: Sampling Issues. 11. Collecting the Data: Measurement Principles and Sources. 12. Collecting the Data: Measuring Instruments. 13. Analyzing the Data. 14. Drawing Inferences and Reporting the Project. Appendixes. Glossary.