Contact

email: l.j.groot@uva.nl; lennertgroot@icloud.com
Links: ORCID; LinkedIn; GitHub

Work Experience

Current 4th year PhD Candidate at University of Amsterdam
Jan 2022 Research Institute of Child Development and Education, Methods & Statistics Programme Group
PhD candidate in research project that aims to broaden the scope of research questions that can be answered through meta-analytical structural equation modeling (MASEM). In particular, I investigate the possibilities of synthesizing raw datasets, instead of summary statistics, when conducting MASEM.
2021-2022 Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Tutorial Teacher in the Bachelor Programme of Psychology. I taught different courses to groups of first and second year Psychology and Pedagogical Sciences students.
2019-2021 Vandebron Energy, Amsterdam
Team Support, Front Office. I provided customer care employees with ad hoc advice and support in the form of technical knowledge and communication strategy, while monitoring issues in workflows.
2018 University of Amsterdam
Student Assistant. Translating and implementing an American anti-bullying intervention into the Dutch language and context.

Education

2018-2021 University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences
Master of Research, Child Development and Communication
Research Internship: For the Research Institute of Child Development and Education (Domain Psychopathology)
I investigated the measurement of social behavior and shyness among young children (Grade 8.0).
Master Thesis: Conducting a simulation study, I investigated a novel possible explanation for the statistical edge that
the bi-factor model has in explaining intelligence data, as compared to the higher-order factor model (Grade 8.1).
2018 Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
International Summer Campus
International exchange programme of educational and cultural content. I completed the course Advanced
Developmental Psychopathology (Grade A+).
2016-2018 University of Amsterdam
Bachelors Degree, Pedagogical Sciences
Bachelor Thesis: Parenting Skills of Schizophrenic Parents (Grade 8.0).
Research Practice: Developing a parent-report measure for shyness in young children (Grade 8.0).
2010-2016 University of Amsterdam
Propaedeutical Diploma, Universitaire PABO

Publications (Peer Reviewed)

2025 Groot, L.J., Kan, K.J., & Jak, S. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 32(5), pp. 801-813
https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2025.2505995
2025 Rode, J.B., Remshard, M., Groot, L.J. & Van der Linden, S., Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 63:101521
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101521
2024 Kan, K.J., Psychogyiopoulos, A., Groot, L.J., De Jonge, H., & Ten Hove, D., 2024. Why do bi-factor models outperform
higher-order g factor models? A network perspective Journal of Intelligence, 12(2), 18.
https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence12020018
2024 Groot, L.J., Kan, K.J., & Jak, S., 2024. Checking the Inventory. Research Synthesis Methods 15(6) pp. 872-895.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1735

Presentations

2025 Individual Oral Presentation
Annual Meeting of the Society for Reseach Synthesis Methodology, Madison WI, USA
2025 Technology Demonstration on using JASP for statistical analysis
Kohnstamm Institute
2024 Organizing Committee & Research Symposium
Annual Meeting of the Society for Reseach Synthesis Methodology, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2024 Individual Oral Presentation
Meeting of the Working Group Structural Equation Modeling, Enschede, Netherlands
2023 Individual Oral Presentations
4th Symposium on Research Synthesis & Big Data, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Annual Conference of the European Association of Methodology, Gent, Belgium
2022 Individual Oral Presentation
International Meeting of the Psychometric Society 2022, Bologna, Italy

Teaching

University of Amsterdam Role: Teaching Assistant
Program: Child Development and Education (research master)
Course: ’Methods and Statistics in Educational Research’ 12EC
Course ’Structural Equation Modeling in Educational Research’ 12EC
Program: Pedagogical Sciences: Youth at Risk (master track)
Course: ’Masterclass in Methods and Statistics’ 3EC
VU Amsterdam Role: Tutorial Teacher
Program: Bachelor Program Psychology
Course: ’Methodology’ 6EC
Course: ’Measurement and Diagnostics’ 6EC
Course: ’Neuropsychology’ 6EC

Courses & Certificates

2022 IOPS - What is Psychometrics 2EC
2022 University of Amsterdam - Data Analysis and Visualization in Python 1EC
2023 IOPS - Mathematical Statistics 1EC
2024 Utrecht University - Bayesian Statistics 2EC
2025 Maastricht University - Advanced Meta-Analysis 1EC

Languages & Computer Skills

Dutch: Primary Fluency Python ◼□□□□
English: Full Professional Proficiency HTML/CSS ◼□□□□
German: Elementary proficiency Markdown/Bookdown ◼◼◼□□
French: Elementary proficiency LaTeX ◼◼◼□□
SPSS ◼◼◼□□
R ◼◼◼◼□
MS Office ◼◼◼◼◼

Interests and Activities

Reading, Rock Climbing, Running, Hiking, Ice/Inline Skating.