Goals of ISPRESC

a) To promote the use of high quality research and evaluation methods in policy studies related to school-based counseling so that the value of the information is valid and directly applicable to all educational stakeholders.

b) To enable international collaborations on critical policy research and evaluation projects in school-based counseling.

c) To facilitate cross-national research and evaluation projects related to school-based counseling to generate new knowledge and understanding. 

d) To disseminate the findings of important policy research and evaluation projects.

e) To facilitate communication among policy researchers/evaluators, policy makers and policy advocates to help identify research and evaluation needs related to school-based counseling and to enable the generation of valid and useful information and the effective use of findings.

f) To encourage and enable graduate students to focus their developing research programs on policy research and evaluation.