Welcome!
MplusWizard is a place where you get to learn magical SEM skills that will empower you to reveal intricate patterns in real life. It was created to offer a very gentle introduction into SEM, in an intuitive and non-mathematical way. It will help you become a wizard!
This set of online courses emulates the courses I deliver in Cambridge. They really are meant to be taken as a “course”, not simply a “resource bank”.
How does it work? Watch this 5-minute video:
In addition to the Foundation course, there are 3 Specialised courses. The next dates for these courses are:
| Foundation course (The Wizard’s Cat) |
always open (2 weeks) |
| Multilevel modelling (The Magic School) |
13 July – 31 July (3 weeks) |
| Multiple group analysis (The Potion Master) |
13 July – 31 July (3 weeks) |
| Longitudinal data analysis (The Spell Caster) |
17 August – 4 Sept (3 weeks) |
Note 1: You have asked me to keep the Wizard’s Cat course always open so you can prepare for the other courses. I have listened. So you can now take the Wizard’s Cat course any time, including alongside the specialised courses. The topics in the Wizard’s Cat course are ordered so as to map onto the weekly topics introduced in the other courses to make it possible for you to take both courses in tandem (i.e. week 1 of Wizard’s Cat maps onto week 1 of each of the others, etc.).
Note 2: Expected weekly workload = approx 8-10 hours.
In addition, I also offer “The Wizard’s Cat”, my own favourite course. It is a foundation course and includes:
My name is Gabriela Roman. I am a Research Associate at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, where my main research interest is the development of cognitive and emotional self-regulation and the role of self-regulation for behaviour difficulties (in early childhood) and criminal behaviour (in adolescence and early adulthood). I am particularly interested in the contributions of other actors to the development of a person’s self-regulation. Over the years, I have also been involved in various international projects as a consultant. I am currently working on a book about young people’s pathways into crime, from age 13 to age 24. Previously I was fortunate to learn a little bit about various branches of psychology and criminology via a PhD in developmental psychology (Cambridge University), an MPhil in criminological research (Cambridge University), and a BA in cognitive and social psychology (Jacobs University Bremen).