EDRE Research and Consultation Lab
Location: Room 321 (3rd floor), East Eggleston Hall (mail code 0302), Phone: (540) 231-9726
Hours: In general, the lab is open Monday through Friday during the Fall and Spring semesters, although availability varies by semester due to Graduate Assistant availability. The hours for the current semester are shown below. Those wanting to access the lab after 5 pm on days that it is open during the evenings should enter East Eggleston from the southeast side of the building (opposite the Drill Field), go to the third floor, and knock on the door in the stairwell. A lab assistant will open the door for you.
Service Provided: The EDRE 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 13 PC workstations available in the EDRE Lab. All have a text editor and Microsoft Office software installed, 10 workstations are connected to the internet, and 2 have Adobe Captivate2 installed.
Software: The following software is installed on the EDRE Lab workstations. The number of workstations that have or will have each piece of software is shown in parentheses.
General purpose statistical software and computational packages
Currently Available
Multilevel, covariance structure, and latent variable modeling packages
Currently Available
Measurement software
Currently Available
- BILOG-MG (2)
- CONQUEST (1)
- FACETS (13)
- Lertap (1)
- MULTILOG (1)
- PARSCALE (1)
- Promissor Computerized Adaptive Testing Software (5)
- TESTFACT (1)
- WINSTEPS (10)
Qualitative analysis software
Currently Available
- NVIVO version 7 (3)
2008-2009 EDRE Lab Schedule
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hours | 12 pm to 6 pm |
12 pm to 6 pm |
12 pm to 5 pm |
12 pm to 4:30 pm |
12 pm to 4:30 pm |
Effective from Tuesday, September 9 to Thursday, December 18. To use the lab at other times, students may contact Karen Price on the second floor in room 215.
Staff
- For administrative questions, please contact Dr. Yasuo Miyazaki (yasuom@vt.edu)
- Graduate Assistants
- Jessica Yue (yuexi@vt.edu)
- Youngyun Chung Baek (ychungba@vt.edu)
- Sabrina Simpson (sabrinar@vt.edu)