The ARL is a free research consulting center dedicated to providing expert assistance to the ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ research community. Our goal is to empower researchers to produce high-quality research in a timely manner. As an interdisciplinary lab, we provide consultations tailored to the research design and analysis needs of your project. We also aim to increase research skills by offering a variety of workshops, demonstrations, and tutorials designed to help researchers apply best methodological practices to their projects.

Services

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  • Research proposal methodology development and review
    • Crafting research questions and hypotheses
    • Developing measures and data collection techniques
    • Creating sampling plans
    • Formulating robust data analysis strategies
  • Data analysis consulting
    • Managing data structures
    • Wrangling and cleaning data
    • Conducting exploratory data analysis
    • Building and testing models
    • Assessing and reporting results
  • Research software support
    • Qualtrics
    • NVivo
    • Jamovi
    • R
    • SPSS
    • Python
    • ArcGIS
  • Workshops customized to your needs. Contact us at iup-arl@iup.edu to discuss. 

Qualtrics

Information about Qualtrics from the Applied Research Lab.

Institutional Review Board

The Institutional Review Board (IRB) for the Protection of Human Subjects is the regulatory body of ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ that is responsible for the review of research that involves human participants.

ARL Workshops

Here are materials and handouts from upcoming and recent Applied Research Lab workshops.

About the Applied Research Lab

More about the Applied Research Lab, including who we are and when we’re in the lab to assist you.

News

ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ Applied Research Lab, Altoona Curve Collaborating on Research Study

ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ’s Applied Research Lab, a research consulting center that assists the ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ research community as part of ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ’s Research and Innovation, was approached by the Altoona Curve’s management team for a research project to analyze attendance rates for Altoona Curve games.

  • 28 March 2025

Summer 2023 ARL Support

The Applied Research Lab is offering summer support for students during all three summer terms.

  • 15 June 2023
  • Applied Research Lab
  • Stright Hall, Room 107B
    210 South Tenth St.
     Indiana, PA 15705
  • Phone: 724-357-2439
  • Fax: 724-357-2715
Hours of Operation
Monday through Friday
8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.