Advanced Structural Equation Modeling

Dr. Randall E. Schumacker

Aim of Course:

This course covers many popular advanced SEM models with practical exercises. After completing this course, students will be able to specify, execute and interpret output for Multiple Indicator and Multiple Causes models (MIMIC), Multiple Group models, Multilevel (HLM) models, Mixture models, Structured Means models, Multitrait-Multimethod models, Second Order Factor models, Interaction models, and Dynamic Factor models. Students will also be able to incorporate latent variable growth curves into models (this concept takes traditional modeling of growth curves for repeated measures data, and extends it to cover the use of latent variables via SEM methods).

Grades/project: Students seeking a grade and a statistics.com transcript must complete the homework and a final project.

Who Should Take This Course:

Market researchers, educational researchers, sociologists and psychologists, political scientists, economists, and survey researchers.

For those enrolled in a Program of Advanced Statistical Studies, this is a required or elective course in the following Programs:

• Statistics for Social Sciences - elective

Course Program:

The course is structured as follows:

The Instructor:

Dr. Randall E. Schumacker is Professor in Educational Research at the University of Alabama. He is the co-author of A Beginner's Guide to Structural Equation Modeling (with Richard Lomax), Advanced Structural Equation Modeling: New Developments and Techniques (with George Marcoulides) and the co-editor (with George Marcolides) of Advanced Structural Equation Modeling: Issues and Techniques and Interaction and Nonlinear Effects in Structural Equation Modeling. Dr. Schumacker was the founder, editor (1994-1998), and is the current emeritus editor of Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal. He also founded the Structural Equation Modeling Special Interest Group at the American Educational Research Association.

Organization of the Course:

The course takes place over the internet, at statistics.com. During each course week, you participate at times of your own choosing - there are no set times when you must be online. Course participants will be given access to a private discussion board. In class discussions led by the instructor, you can post questions, seek clarification, and interact with your fellow students and the instructor. The course is scheduled to take place over 4 weeks, and typically requires 15 hours per week. At the beginning of each week, you receive the relevant material, in addition to answers to exercises from the previous session. During the week, you are expected to go over the course materials and work through exercises. Discussion among participants is encouraged. The instructor will provide answers and comments.

Credit:

Academic credit (1.0 graduate semester hour) for this course is available via the American Council on Education (ACE) Credit Recommendation Service. Click here for details. This course also offers continuing education units (CEU's). For those successfully completing the course (generally this means marks of 50% or better on the homework), 5.0 CEU's and a certificate will be issued by statistics.com, upon request.

Dates:

Jun. 25 - Jul. 23, 2010
Jan. 14 - Feb. 11, 2011
Click here to be notified of future course offerings.

Participants gain access to the online materials on the first day of the course, and typically spend about 15 hours per week (at their convenience). You retain full access to course materials, including discussion board, for two weeks after the course closing date.

Level:

Advanced

Prerequisite:

The equivalent of Introduction to Statistics 1: Inference for a Single Variable, and Introduction to Statistics 2: Working with Bivariate Data (and, if necessary before these courses, Introduction to Statistics for Beginners or Survey of Statistics for Beginners).

You should also be familiar and comfortable with the concepts in Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling. If you are not familiar with the basics of educational measurement and assessment, or would like a refresher, please consider taking "Introduction to Assessment/Measurement in Education" . For additional information about course prerequisites, click here.

Course Text:

The advanced SEM models are presented in the text A Beginner's Guide to Structural Equation Modeling,3rd edition, published April 2010, by Randall E. Schumacker and Richard Lomax, and also in New Developments and Techniques in Structural Equation Modeling, ed. by Randall E. Schumacker and George Marcoulides. Both will cover the course topics, but the latter will serve as a more in-depth reference. You can order the Beginner's Guide text by clicking here, and the New Developments... text by clicking here. The CD that comes with the Beginner's Guide book contains LISREL, which the course emphasizes, as well as AMOS and EQS student versions of SEM software, while the New Developments... book does not provide these software programs. Either book can be used for the course, but please keep your software requirements in mind when ordering. We recommend

1) If you have access to software, are comfortable with your knowledge of basic SEM and need a reference for future exploration, choose the "New Developments..." book.

2) If you need software, are only recently learning SEM and are more concerned with consolidating your knowledge, choose the "Beginner's Guide."

Software:

LISREL software will be illustrated throughout the course in lessons and assignments, and "A Beginner's Guide to Structural Equation Modeling" includes a CD with student versions of LISREL. Students will use LISREL in the course.

Examples using AMOS and/or EQS (other programs used for SEM) are included in the course text, but are not built into course materials.

Course staff will not be available to illustrate or help with examples other than those included in the course. Students are encouraged to visit each software website to obtain the latest student versions of the software. Some, but not all software can be obtained on vendor websites. (For LISREL, 15-day free trials and 6-month rentals are available at e-Academy.com; and a limited student edition at http://www.ssicentral.com/lisrel/student.html). MAC users: Please note that the Mac version's capabilities have not kept pace with the PC versions' features, and the Mac version does not work with the most current Macs - see http://www.ssicentral.com/ordering/mac-lisrel.html

Registration:

Register Online - $499
Register Online (academic) - $399 (you must be affiliated with a college, university or high school)

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