Joram van Ketel is a PhD candidate at the Department of Economics on field experiments in complex skill-acquisition in higher education. He also teaches statistics in the Bachelor of Psychology.

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Joram van Ketel is a PhD candidate at the Department of Economics on field experiments in complex skill-acquisition in higher education. He also teaches statistics in the Bachelor of Psychology.

Field research on training complex skills

Van Ketel develops field research in the training of complex skills in Higher Education, on the cutting edge of scientific and practical relevance for the context in which his research takes place. As a teacher and musician, he is inspired to do so by needs from the practical field, and as a psychologist he is convinced of the advantages of a scientific approach. His first project was the development, faculty-wide implementation and experimental evaluation of skills-trainings that were especially intended to foster equality of opportunity for first-generation students in the first year of the Bachelor of Law. Other research in his PhD consists of experimental evaluation of instructional formats in R-studio software practicals in the Bachelor of Psychology, in terms of cognitive load, study behavior and other consequences for the learning process.

Teaching

Besides his PhD, Van Ketel also teaches statistics at the Institute of Psychology. He is or has been involved as a teacher or (assistant) coordinator in the following courses:

• Psychometrics (BSc Psychology)
• Experimental and Correlational Research (BSc Psychology)
• Music Cognition (ACPA, BMus Sonology Royal Conservatoire)
• Academic Skills Tutorial Public Economics (BSc Public Economics)
• Introduction in Methods and Statistics  (BSc Psychology)
• Inferential Statistics (BSc Psychology)
• Multivariate Data Analysis (BSc Psychology)
• Determinants of Human Behavior (BA Urban Studies)
• Introduction into Psychology (BSc Psychology)
• Social and Organisational Psychology (BSc Psychology)
• Personality- Cilinical- and Health- Psychology (BSc Psychology)
• Bio-and Neuropsychology (BSc Psychology)
• Leiden Law Practices (LL.B. Law and Economics)
• Academic Skills Tutorial (BSc Psychology)
• Perspective on Careerplanning (BSc Psychology)

Short CV

Before his current positions, Van Ketel worked as a thesis supervisor at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and lecturer for several subjects in the Bachelor of Psychology at Leiden University. At this university, he pursued a Bachelor's degree in Psychology (Cum Laude) and a Master's degree in Cognitive Psychology, which he completed Summa Cum Laude in 2017. His bachelor thesis concerned laparoscopic surgery training at LUMC.

Van Ketel's master's thesis focused on study behaviour in relation to study performance of students at the Royal Conservatoire. A trombonist, he then also completed the Bachelor of Music there in 2020. Besides regular performances with ensembles such as SoundWave Collective and the Hague Brass Quartet, he forms a pioneering duo with organist Iddo van der Giessen since 2016.

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