Educational Research and Evaluation Lab

Welcome to the Educational Research and Evaluation (EDRE) Lab

Location: 1750 Kraft Drive, Room 2113, Blacksburg, VA 24061

Service Provided

The Consultation Lab provides consulting services and access to computer resources to students and faculty in the School of Education. Consultation is available relating to research and evaluation design, instrument development, and quantitative and qualitative data analysis.The lab is staffed by graduate students in the EDRE Program who are supervised and guided by faculty members in the EDRE Program. Consultation is provided on a walk-in basis.

Computer Resources

Hardware

There are 6 work stations available in the lab. The computers are equipped with the latest operating system, Microsoft Office, and Adobe software.

Software

The following software is installed on the lab workstations:

Schedule for EDRE Workshop Sessions

SPSS workshops introduce participants to the basics of getting started with this software. SPSS is designed to execute a variety of statistical procedures. It is used in EDRE 6605, EDRE 6606, and more advanced EDRE courses. Specific topics that are covered in the workshop include:

  • Creating SPSS files including data entry, labels, values, etc.

  • Cleaning and merging data files

  • Handling missing values

  • Opening an existing data file and/or importing data from Excel

  • Simple descriptive statistics and data display

Please note that workshop dates and times are announced through the SOE list serve at various points during the academic year.

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