“…In this type of person-centered analysis, learners are clustered into systematic subgroups according to their measured values on multiple variables that are meant to reflect the learning process. LTA has been used in multiple studies during the last years, for example to study the structure and development of children's knowledge about density and buoyancy force (Edelsbrunner et al, 2015(Edelsbrunner et al, , 2018Schneider & Hardy, 2013), psychology students' understanding of human memory (Flaig et al, 2018), as well as secondary school students' understanding of rational numbers (Kainulainen et al, 2016) and motivational development across multiple subjects (Costache et al, 2021). Moreover, cross-sectional person-centered approaches can be useful to identify learners with certain characteristics, for example learners at risk of developing reading disabilities (Swanson, 2012), low literacy (Mellard et al, 2016), motivational patterns across subjects (Gaspard et al, 2019), patterns of competence levels across multiple skills in science (Schwichow et al, 2020), or maladaptive learning strategies (Fryer, 2017).…”