Website: http://oregonstate.edu/conferences/summerinstitute/ <http://oregonstate.edu/conferences/summerinstitute/>
About the Summer Institute The Summer Institute on Research Methodology will be held July 8 to 11, 2008 on the Oregon State University campus, hosted by the College of Health and Human Sciences (HHS). Research methodology is central to the health and human sciences. The complexity of developmental, social, and health processes require rigorous attention to measurement, sampling, design, and statistical analysis.
Introductory and advanced courses are offered by the Methodology Core over a period of four days (two days each) during the summer months. The 2008 introductory course provides instruction in the concepts of multilevel models, and their implementation in the form of growth curve modeling. Introductory Mplus instruction is also included. Participants are expected to be comfortable with the General Linear Model. The advanced course focuses on the analysis of change using Mplus and will require some degree of prior experience in multilevel and growth modeling, which may be obtained in the introductory course offering. These two courses can be taken independently or combined. The courses are team taught and draw on the faculty expertise in the College of Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University. Applied examples are used throughout the workshops, with hands-on analysis experience making use of several available data sets.
July 8-9: Introductory Course: Growth Curve Modeling and using Mplus (Alan Acock, Lesa Hoffman, Sam Vuchinich). Participants will learn how to use the Mplus software for the analysis of longitudinal data.
July 10-11: Advanced Course: Latent Growth Curve Modeling using Mplus (Alan Acock, Terry Duncan, Lesa Hoffman, Scott Hofer). This workshop will review latent growth curve modeling using the Mplus software and feature the extension of these basic models for multivariate outcomes, time-varying predictors, growth models with ordered categorical outcomes, and analysis of growth mixtures (i.e., group differences in trajectories).
Registration The registration fee for each of the basic and advanced courses is $300, or $500 for the combined courses ($200 and $350 for graduate students). These fees include all workshop materials, use of a laptop computer containing all relevant software and programs (each shared between two individuals), lunch and coffee breaks every day, and one dinner reception per two-day workshop. Please register using the online form available on the website.
Please see the 2008 Summer Institute website (http://oregonstate.edu/conferences/summerinstitute/) for details regarding course material, faculty, registration, travel and accommodation, and contact information.
Further information regarding the College of Health and Human Sciences Methodology Core can be found at: http://www.hhs.oregonstate.edu/methodology/core.html .
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Andrea M. Piccinin
Research Associate Professor
Human Development and Family Sciences
322 Milam Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-5102
Tel: 541-737-2078
Fax: 541-737-1076
Email: andrea.piccinin@oregonstate.edu <mailto:andrea.piccinin@oregonstate.edu>
