This course will address how school counselors, gather and interpret information needed for, effective decision making through the use of, research and assessment. Students will explore, components of school-based research processes with, attention to data-driven decision making and, equity-based program development. Topics to be, discussed include the personhood of the, researcher, quantitative and qualitative, approaches, and the connection between educational, research and comprehensive school counseling, programs. Students will critique common, educational research practices, apply survey and, needs assessment development strategies, and, integrate consultation strategies. This course, will include discussions of cultural assumptions, held by researchers and their impacts on research, practices and results. Students will develop a, research proposal that includes a clear, equity-based plan to implement a data-driven, intervention program.
- Teacher: Tamara Tribitt