Diana Mindrila earned a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Research from the University of South Carolina. She is a Professor of educational research at the University of West Georgia. Her area of expertise is latent variable modeling and multivariate classification procedures. Her research interests include assessing the performance of various estimation methods with smaller sample sizes and non-normal data. Dr. Mindrila published methodological and applied research studies using latent class and latent profile analysis, cluster analysis, factor analysis, exploratory structural equation modeling, etc. Dr. Mindrila is currently the Director of the Eastern Educational Research Association (EERA) Division 2: Measurement, Evaluation, Research and Statistics and the EERA Special Interest Group: Teaching Research Methods and Statistics. She received the 2012, 2013, and 2018 American Educational Research Association Consortium of State and Regional Educational Research Association Distinguished Paper Award and the 2020 University of West Georgia College of Education Outstanding Research Award.