Quantitative Research Plan

The quantitative research team has spent the last year thinking about how to assess class privilege and classism in counseling training programs.  Our team had two basic questions.  First, we wanted to know who our students are with respect to their socioeconomic experiences and whether they encounter class privilege in their training programs.  Second, we wanted to know whether the structure and policies of counseling training programs create obstacles to obtaining a degree that are based on class.

 

We decided that the best way to answer our questions was to engage in a broad census of students in counseling programs.  To that end, we intend to use survey research to gather data from students enrolled in both master's and doctoral level counseling training programs about their current and historical socioeconomic status.  We will also ask about their experiences with class privilege and classism in their training programs.  

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We will also use survey research to ask program directors of counseling training programs to provide use with information about the costs of their program(s), the financial aid available to students in their programs, and how their programs are structured.

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We have nicknamed our research the Counseling Student Census.  Our research proposal has been submitted to the Institutional Review Board of Texas State University.  We hope to pilot our surveys in the Spring of 2021 and launch our full census in the fall of 2021.