Courses and Open Teaching materials
This page collects the main courses and open materials I make publicly available. Whenever possible, slides, exercises, and code are freely accessible so that students, teachers, and researchers can reuse or adapt them.
Structural Equation Modeling 
Course website: https://enricotoffalini.github.io/SEM-course/
Short description
This course introduces the foundations of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), covering latent variables, CFA, path analysis, and measurement invariance. You will learn how to specify, estimate, and test SEM models in R using the lavaan package, as well as perform power analysis through simulation.
What you can find here
- đź“‘ Slides and lecture notes
- Conceptual slides introducing R as a language for data science
- Step-by-step examples to reproduce directly in R / RStudio
- Conceptual slides introducing R as a language for data science
- 🧪 Hands-on exercises
- Guided exercises for getting familiar with lavaan syntax
- Small data sets used in class, ready to be reused in other courses or self-study
- Guided exercises for getting familiar with lavaan syntax
Who this is useful for
- PhD students and early-career researchers who need a compact, applied introduction to SEM
- Teachers who want ready-made R exercises and examples and slides to integrate in their own courses
Psicologia della PersonalitĂ e delle Differenze Individuali 
Sito del corso e materiali aperti: https://feracotommaso.github.io/Personality-and-individual-differences/
Corso triennale introduttivo sulla psicologia della personalitĂ e sulle differenze individuali. Il corso affronta:
- la definizione di personalitĂ
- i maggiori modelli di personalitĂ
- i principali strumenti di misura della personalitĂ
- varie tipologie e aree di ricerca delle differenze individuali
Materiali disponibili
đź“‘ Dispense e approfondimenti
Tutte le dispense usate in aggiunta ai testi di studio sono state scritte e rese disponibili online sulla pagina principale del corso. Questi materiali possono essere riutilizzati (con citazione) per attivitĂ didattiche, divulgative o di autoformazione.đź“‘ Risultati delle esercitazioni
Durante il corso, raccogliamo e analizziamo dati di personalitĂ . Le slide con i risultati vengono pubblicate sul sito per consultazione.
A chi può essere utile
- Persone curiose di capire meglio come e perchè le persone sono diverse una dall’altra e quali modelli spiegano meglio tali differenze;
- Studentesse e studenti di psicologia, neuroscienze, materie umanistiche;
- Docenti che cercano materiali pronti all’uso per lezioni sui temi di personalità e differenze individuali.
Reuse of materials
- âś… You are welcome to link to these course pages, embed specific exercises in your own syllabi, or recommend them to students.
- âś… Slides and code examples are generally fine to reuse for non-commercial teaching, ideally with a short acknowledgement (but for the MOOC on Federica Web Learning, please refer to the Federica license before copying any part!).
- ❓ If you plan a more extensive reuse (for example, translating large parts of material, or integrating them into a paid course), it’s generally fine, but please get in touch first.
Contact
If you are interested in using or adapting these materials for your course, or if you have suggestions for improvements: tommaso.feraco@unipd.it
I am always happy to see these resources reused, remixed, and improved, especially when they help promote better methods and critical thinking in psychological science.