ADVANCED METHODOLOGIES IN DISABILITY & REHABILITATION RESEARCH

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Declared in Rehabilitation Counselor Education Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe foundational knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research designs including problems and hypotheses; constructs, variables, and definitions; designs of research; measurements; and data collection Audience: Graduate 2. Identify advanced research designs, methods, and multivariate statistics in professional counseling research Audience: Graduate 3. Describe classic research in the rehabilitation, counseling, and psychology literature Audience: Graduate 4. Outline implications of design issues when working with diverse populations and multicultural topics Audience: Graduate 5. Evaluate rehabilitation counseling research proposals with regard to: the sufficiency of the literature review as a foundation for the research questions/hypotheses, the clarity of the research questions/hypotheses, the sufficiency of the reason(s) for conducting the study, and the adequacy of the proposed methodology Audience: Graduate 6. Develop crystalized dissertation research ideas Audience: Graduate 7. Practice skills in developing a dissertation research proposal. The proposal will contain the research problem (the research questions and why they are important to address), a review of the literature to provide a foundation for the research questions/hypotheses, and the research methodology (e.g., the research design, the sampling population, instrumentation, procedures, and data analysis) Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe foundational knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research designs including problems and hypotheses; constructs, variables, and definitions; designs of research; measurements; and data collection Audience: Graduate 2. Identify advanced research designs, methods, and multivariate statistics in professional counseling research Audience: Graduate 3. Describe classic research in the rehabilitation, counseling, and psychology literature Audience: Graduate 4. Outline implications of design issues when working with diverse populations and multicultural topics Audience: Graduate 5. Evaluate rehabilitation counseling research proposals with regard to: the sufficiency of the literature review as a foundation for the research questions/hypotheses, the clarity of the research questions/hypotheses, the sufficiency of the reason(s) for conducting the study, and the adequacy of the proposed methodology Audience: Graduate 6. Develop crystalized dissertation research ideas Audience: Graduate 7. Practice skills in developing a dissertation research proposal. The proposal will contain the research problem (the research questions and why they are important to address), a review of the literature to provide a foundation for the research questions/hypotheses, and the research methodology (e.g., the research design, the sampling population, instrumentation, procedures, and data analysis) Audience: Graduate