Product Description

Fills a special niche for courses in counseling and educational research…

The Second Edition of Counseling and Educational Research: Evaluation and Application emphasizes the importance of being a good consumer of research and teaches the practitioner how to conduct research in practice. Author Rick Houser uses concrete examples from the professional literature to demonstrate how to effectively evaluate and interpret research articles. In order to give the reader a chance to see the evaluation of an article from beginning to end, this new edition uses several articles throughout the book to illustrate the methods of evaluation and interpretation rather than using different articles for each segment of an article.

New to the Second Edition

• Offers more material on qualitative research
• Includes a new chapter on statistical methods
• Provides a new chapter on mixed methods
• Incorporates a new chapter on searching articles in professional journals and searching various online databases
• Summarizes recent developments through a new chapter on evidence-based research
• Presents new articles to draw on for examples
• Gives ACA ethical guidelines and expanded coverage on program evaluation

Intended Audience
This book is specifically written for introductory courses in research methods at the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels in the fields of counseling, social work, education, and psychology.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #290957 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 296 pages

About the Author
Currently Rick Houser is the Department Head in Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology, and Counseling at the University of Alabama. He has been Associate Dean in the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Also, he was a professor and department chair for several years at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Rick Houser has taught graduate level research courses for over 20 years. He received his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh in rehabilitation counseling with a minor in research methodology. He conducts research in ethical decision-making, stress and coping, and the use of virtual reality in counseling.

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