STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING IN PSYCHOLOGY AND PEDAGOGY: PROBLEMS OF SCIENCE AND EDUCATION

Based on analysis of works of Russian and foreign researchers in the field of humanitarian sciences, which use in their research methods of mathematical statistics, author comes to a conclusion about the necessity of students and postgraduate students of the psychological and pedagogical specialties to develop their own information and mathematical competence: the study of the classical methods of mathematical statistics and multivariate analysis of data, and the structural equation modeling. The author presented the educational manual in the Russian language on the basics of structural equation modeling for students and post-graduate students of humanitarian specialties, with an interest in the methodology