Resources
Literature
You do not need a separate book for this course!
Most of the information is contained within this GitBook and the course readings (which you will be able to access via links in this GitBook).
All literature is freely available online, as long as you are logging in from within the UU-domain (i.e., from the UU campus or through an appropriate VPN). All readings are linked in this GitBook via either direct download links or DOIs.
If you run into any trouble accessing a given article, searching for the title using Google Scholar or the University Library will probably due the trick.
Reading questions
Along with every article, we will provide reading questions. You will not be graded on the reading questions, but it is important to prepare the reading questions before every lecture. The reading questions serve several important purposes:
- Provide relevant background knowledge for the lecture
- Help you recognize and understand the key terms and concepts
- Make you aware of important publications that shaped the field
- Help you extract the relevant insights from the literature
Software
You will do all of your statistical analyses with the statistical programming language/environment R and the add-on
package lavaan.
- If you want to expand your learning, you can follow this optional
lavaantutorial.