Short CV

• Associate professor (2018-)
• Assistant professor at the Learning and Behaviour Problems in Education: Challenges and Solutions programme group (2006-2018)
• Postdoc in the Centre for Child and Family studies (2001-2003) and the department of Special Education of Leiden University (2001-2005)
• Policy maker at a Teachers’ Training College for Primary education (1997)
• PhD, Leiden University (2003)
• Substitute teacher in primary and special education (1996)
• MA Education (cum laude), Leiden University (1993-1996)
• Teachers’ Training College for Primary education (1989-1993)
• Secondary education: Atheneum-ß (1983-1989)

Research area
Emergent Literacy

Academic awards

• Computers in Reading Research Award (2004). 
• ISED international article award to M.T. de Jong. Awarded article: De Jong, M.T., & Bus, A.G. (2002). Quality of book-reading matters for emergent readers: An experiment with the same book in a regular or electronic format.  Journal of Educational Psychology, 94, 145-155.  
• Traveling scholarship from the ‘Leids Universitair Fonds’ (1999).

See Dutch profile Marga Sikkema-de Jong

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