Teachers’ Corners on LCA and LTA provide resources for instructors who want to incorporate instruction on innovative methods into their teaching. Teachers’ Corners are designed to make comprehending and teaching a method as easy as possible. Contents may include

• PowerPoint presentations,
• introductory articles for instructors,
• sample exercises, and
• reading lists for students.

These resources are designed to be used by instructors, but researchers and graduate students could also use them to introduce the methods to themselves.

Latent class analysis (LCA) identifies unobservable subgroups within a population. LCA can provide data to tailor interventions to target the subgroups that will benefit most.

Download LCA Teachers’ Corner materials

Contents

1. Document explaining the contents of the download
2. Two introductory articles
3. Recommended reading list
4. PowerPoint slides for introductory lecture
5. Sample SAS exercise files, including (a) an explanation of the data for students, (b) annotated SAS output for instructors, (c) a SAS file for students, and (d) a SAS file for instructors.

Latent transition analysis (LTA) is an extension of LCA that uses longitudinal data to identify movement between the subgroups over time. We recommend using the LCA Teachers’ Corner before the LTA Teachers’ Corner.

Download the LTA Teachers’ Corner materials

Contents

1. Document explaining the contents of the download
2. Two introductory articles
3. Recommended reading list
4. PowerPoint slides for introductory lecture
5. Sample exercise files, including (a) an explanation of the SAS exercise for students, (b) annotated SAS output for instructors, (c) a SAS file for students, (d) a SAS file of solutions for instructors, (e) an explanation of the exercise in Mplus, (f) a text file containing data for the Mplus exercise, (g) an Mplus input file for students, and (h) the Mplus solution for instructors.