Description
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.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: A Framework for Conducting School Counseling Research in the Current Educational EnvironmentChapter 2: Access to Schools: Relationships with Stakeholders and SystemsChapter 3: Ethical Research in Schools: Navigating the IRB Process at the District and University LevelsChapter 4: Research Questions that Contribute to Sound Study Designs for School CounselingChapter 5: Developmental and Social Considerations When Conducting Research with Children and AdolescentsChapter 6: Using Assessment Instruments in School-Based ResearchChapter 7: Research Design: Quantitative ApproachesChapter 8: Research Design: Qualitative ApproachesChapter 9: Research Designs: Action ResearchChapter 10: Single Case Research Design: A Practical Option in School Counseling ResearchChapter 11: Program Evaluation in Professional School CounselingChapter 12: Ensuring Treatment Fidelity and Clean Data CollectionChapter 13: Data Analysis Procedures in School Counseling ResearchChapter 14: Bridging the Research to Practice Gap
