Basic concepts essential to the comprehension of graduate research in counseling, including research format, measurement principles, descriptive statistics, needs assessment, and program evaluation. This text innovatively presents research simply and straightforwardly, often using tables. Students learn to navigate the many phases in research without much reading, from the research question to manuscript publication. Author Camelia Shaheed walks graduate students through ethics, literature sources and reviews, research design selection, execution of the research project, measurement, data collection and analysis, and interpretation. She closes the text with material on needs assessments and program evaluation.