A Research Study by Delphi Technique in School Counseling

Abstract

This conceptual paper examines the Delphi technique a researcher can apply towards school counselling and how the technique is carried out by various steps to achieve the aim and objective of a study. The application of Delphi technique is developed as a forecasting tool that predicts the future scenarios and it has been widely used in many disciplines. As for this paper, it was applied by a Modified Delphi approach where five main factors was identified based on preselected and screened by the researcher based on synthesized review of literatures. This study can be further developed by the steps ofchoosing experts or panel, data collection method, conducting interviews, method to set the questionnaire and focus group or further integrating with other research methods such as Structural Equation modelling (SEM), Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) and many more. Finally to conclude this paper, recommendations have been provided on how to start a research study by using Delphi Technique.