Counseling and Educational Research: Evaluation and Application

by Rick A. Houser

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

The Second Edition of Counseling and Educational 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
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.

Genres: Counselling, Grad School, Psychology

296 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 1998

Reviews

[Emily Ellison · Rating 3 out of 5]

Super boring book, but that was not the author's fault. I just don't enjoy reading about researching. The whole quantative versus qualitative thing got old. Although, Houser does give good information on the differences. This book was required for my reseach class in school.

[Annelise · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'd rather gauge my eyes out than have to read this book again.

[Jeff · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was required reading for a course I took. The subject matter was not always the most interesting to me, but the writing still of the author is what really lowered my rating. He really too the concept of “tell them what you’re going to tell them” to heart. For me there was too much of “in this other chapter we will…”. Still, it helped me learn some things, so two stars it is. I will not be doing a reread any time soon however.

[Amy Wasson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Boring...

[Erika · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was helpful with an easy layout for a quick read. I didn't get enough information about the types of qualitative research--such as grounded theory, etc. I did like the information in an easily put together book with appropriate headings and flow of information.

[Ceit · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was forced to read this horrible book for a course on research at UMASS BOSTON. It was poorly written, and made no sense. It was only picked because Houser was the ex head of the department