Welcome to the SAGE edge site for Counseling and Educational Research, Fourth Edition.

The SAGE edge site for Counseling and Educational Research by Rick A. Houser offers a robust online environment you can access anytime, anywhere, and features an impressive array of free tools and resources to keep you on the cutting edge of your learning experience.

Counseling and Educational Research: Evaluation and Application prepares readers to be good consumers and evaluators of research. Using concrete examples from published articles, author Rick A. Houser teaches students to take a systematic approach to evaluating professional literature critically and using it responsibly. The Fourth Edition covers evidence-based research, qualitative methods, program evaluation, and mixed methods; includes new discussions on how national accreditation standards in counseling (CACREP) and education (CAEP) apply to research; and examines how cultural influences can affect the research process.

Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge Rick A. Houser for writing an excellent text. Special thanks are also due to Alfred Lara for developing the ancillaries on this site.