Mission

OERO supports faculty and graduate students in Virginia Tech’s School of Education as they pursue evidence-based empirical and qualitative inquiries related to education, training, program and product evaluation, andrelated venues in statewide, national, and international contexts.

Goals

1. Enable or develop high quality research and data management in all areas related to education.
2. Pursue of publicly and privately funded research initiatives and contracts.
3. Develop sponsored research inquiry, programs, and centers.
4. Assist in the development of new lines of inquiry with an emphasis on those which have the potential to have national and international impacts.
5. Prepare or coordinate training related to grant-writing, management, and project management.
6. Develop research-related outreach activities and materials for constituents within and outside the university.
7. Assist in the recruitment and retention of highly qualified faculty members, as well as the recruitment and training of promising graduate students.
8. Facilitate in whatever way possible the communication of research findings and find practical means of implementing results.
9. Enable interdisciplinary collaboration across the university that leads to educational research.
10. Create relationships among and between academic and non-academic organizations to open venues of research and evaluation.

Vision

Our vision is to create a sustainable research unit that encourages a culture of careful, intentional inquiry into human learning, fosters systematic collection and thoughtful use of data in education, and creates rigorous, team-based approaches to research that earns respect at the national and international level.