Welcome!
MplusWizard is a place where you get to learn magical SEM skills to 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!
How does it work?
When a course is released, you will receive:
- A weekly installment of videos to engage with, released every Sunday evening (UK time).
- Access to a shared dashboard where you can post questions, engage with the questions posted by other attendees and obtain answers from me (which I aim to answer within 24 hours each weekday).
- A package with pdfs of the slides used, Mplus files used in the videos, homeworks/quizzes and suggestions for further resources.
In addition to the Foundation course, there are 3 Specialised courses. The next dates for these courses are:
| Foundation course (The Wizard’s Cat) |
19th April – 3rd May (2 weeks) |
| Multiple group analysis (The Potion Master) |
3rd May – 17th May (2 weeks) |
| Multilevel modelling (The Magic School) |
17th May – 7th June (3 weeks) |
| Londitudinal data analysis (The Spell Caster) |
to be determined (3 weeks, probably in late June or early July) |
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).