| Week # | Date | Tentative Topics | Assigned Readings | Suggested Material |
| Week 1 | 1/20 | Preparing for SEM, Intro to Mplus Syntax, & Basic Trouble-Shooting | Review Kline Chapters 1-4 | See Basic Stat Primers in Google Drive (GD) |
| Week 2 | 1/27 | Path Analysis, Fit Indices, & Reporting SEM | Kline Chapters 6, 7, & 12
Jackson et al. (2009). Reporting practices in confirmatory factor analysis: an overview and some recommendations. Psychological Methods, 14, 6-23. |
See topics in GD |
| Week 3 | 2/3 | Review of Factor Analysis & Intro to ESEM | Kline Chapter 9
Marsh, H.W., et al. (2009). Exploratory structural equation modeling, integrating CFA and EFA: Application to students’ evaluations of university teaching. Structural Equation Modeling, 16, 439-476 . |
See topics in GD |
| Week 4 | 2/10 | Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Multitrait-Multimethod Models, & Equivalent Models | Kline Chapters 10 & 13
Hershberger, S. L., & Marcoulides, G. A. (2013). Chapter 2: The problem of equivalent models. In G. R. Hancock & R. O. Mueller (Eds.) Structural equation modeling: a second course (2nd edition). NY: Guilford. |
See topics in GD
|
| Week 5 | 2/17 | Missing Data, Data Types & Estimators
Due: Data Analysis I |
Enders, C. K. (2010), Chapter 3: An introduction to maximum likelihood estimation. In C. K. Enders (Ed). Applied missing data analysis (pp. 56-85). New York, NY: Guilford. | See topics in GD |
| Week 6 | 2/24 | Fooling Yourself with SEM | Kline (2015) Chapters 18
Kline (2005) Chapter 12 |
See topics in GD;
review CH 4 Kline (2015) |
| Week 7 | 3/2 | Measurement Invariance (Group-based CFA) | Kline Chapter 16
additional article TBA |
See topics in GD |
| Week 8 | 3/9 | Open Class Topics | additional readings TBA | See topics in GD |
| Week 9 | 3/16 | No Class Meeting
Submit Data Analysis Project II |
||
| Week 10 | 3/23 | Spring Break | ||
| Week 11 | 3/30 | Individual Meetings | TBA | |
| Week 12 | 4/6 | Latent Growth Curve Modeling | TBA | See topics in GD |
| Week 13 | 4/13 | Longitudinal Invariance | TBA | See topics in GD |
| Week 14 | 4/20 | Mixture Modeling (Latent Class Analysis vs. Latent Profile Analysis; Factor Mixture Analysis; Growth Mixture Modeling) | TBA | See topics in GD |
| Week 15 | 4/27 | Small Sample Modeling | TBA | See topics in GD |
| Week 16 | 5/4 | Data Project III Presentations | TBA | See topics in GD |
| Week 17 | 5/11 | Data Project III Write-up Due |