ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to understand how research and evaluation questions shape the inquiries that advance the counseling profession. It seeks to develop research questions for use with a variety of research and evaluation designs. When most people think about research, their mind jumps to the images of white coats, experiments, and maybe even a Pavlovian puppy or two. Surely, experimental designs have great value for advancing knowledge and technologies that inform best practices in counseling. Most well-intentioned professionals can get caught up wondering how to crack the code that unlocks quality research questions. There are some common characteristics of all research questions that range from promising to pitfall. The Sample, Phenomenon of Interest, Design, Evaluation, and Research type framework accommodates questions that tend to be more qualitative in nature, rather than focused on quantitative estimation of improvement and estimation.
