Arjen de Vetten is an educational advisor and teacher trainer at Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching (ICLON). He is specialized in general pedagogy and in statistics education, for primary, secondary and university education.

Arjen received a BA degree in International Economics and Finance from Tilburg University and a MSc degree (cum laude) in Economics from the University of Amsterdam. He has held positions as lecturer and assistant professor in methodology and statistics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Leiden University, and as mathematics teacher educator at Hogeschool iPabo Amsterdam. In 2018 he successfully defended his dissertation at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on statistics education for primary education teacher colleges.

Teaching

• Educational advisor
• Teacher trainer

Research

Arjen conducts research on statistics education. In particular, he focuses on the question how students of all ages can learn to use samples to draw conclusions about populations. 

Publications