Short CV

Arjen de Vetten is Assistant Professor (UD) at the unit Methodology & Statistics of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University. His main research interest is in statstics education, both for primary education, teacher college and at the university level.

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. After a short period as a policy advisor, he worked as lecturer in methodology and statistics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In 2012, he started a PhD trajectory in educational sciences under the supervision of prof. dr. Bert van Oers at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on statistics education for primary education teacher colleges. He combined this with a position as mathematics teacher educator at Hogeschool iPabo Amsterdam.

Teaching

Currently, in the psychology program he is a lecturer for first-year methodology and statistics courses, is a tutor for first-year student and supervises bachelor theses.

Awards

• Nominated teacher of the year (2011), Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
• Winner H.K. Nieuwenhuis prize (2007), master thesis award Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam.

Publications