Turning Counseling Students into Researchers: Enhancing Quantitative Research Courses with an Experiential Learning Activity

摘要

Research methods and application are crucial aspects of most counseling practitioners and scholarsa€? lives, yet practical experience with development and implementation of research projects is usually limited to doctoral level dissertations. This article describes an experiential research project that has been integrated into counseling research methods courses at both the mastera€?s level and the doctoral level. In this mentored research activity, students move through the entire research process in one semester. They begin with a notion and finish with a submission for publication. Based on student responses, implementing this process in a research methodology course is recommended.