Short CV

• 2020-present: Associate Professor Educational Science, Institute of Education and Child Studies, Leiden University
• 2014-2020: Assistant Professor Educational Science, Institute of Education and Child Studies, Leiden University
• 2006-2021: construction of mathematics items for End of Primary School Test (Cito)
• 2011-2015: Assistant Professor Methodology and Statistics, Institute of Psychology, Leiden University
• 2011: PhD in Psychology (cum laude), Leiden University in collaboration with Cito, National Institute for Educational Measurement
• 2005: Master Psychology (cum laude), Leiden University

Research

The research program of Marian Hickendorff focuses on mathematics education in primary schools. Her ambition is to give empirical basis to questions and discussions about mathematics education, such as: What is the effect of presenting a mathematics problem as a story problem? How do children solve math problems like 812–784 and to what extent are children with different math achievement levels inclined to use a ‘clever’ shortcut strategy? What is the performance level of Dutch children at the end of primary school: What goes well and where is room for improvement? Furthermore, Marian aims to encourage the application of modern statistical techniques in research into learning and cognition. The focal techniques are latent variable models such as item response theory (IRT) and latent class and latent transition analysis (LCA/LTA).

Grants and awards

• NWO Veni-grant for project “How (cleverly) do children choose their strategy to solve a math problem??” (2019-2022)
• NRO-grant for national assessment of mathematics performance of children at the end of primary school (Peil.Onderwijs rekenen-wiskunde), commissioned by the Dutch Inspectorate of Education and in collaboration with Kohnstamm Instituut, KPC group and Cito, National Institute for Educational Measurement (2018-2021)
• NRO-grant for review study on the relation between teaching factors and student outcomes in mathematics education (2017)
• Scholarship PhD project (2006-2011) by Cito, National Institute for Educational Measurement.
• Award for best publication by a PhD student in Psychology, academic year 2007-2008, Leiden University.
• Van der Geer Award for best Master’s Thesis in Psychology, academic year 2004-2005, Leiden University

Registrations

• Staff member of the Interuniversity Center for Educational Sciences (ICO).
• Postdoc member Interuniversity Graduate School of Psychometrics and Sociometrics (IOPS).

See Dutch profile Marian Hickendorff

Publications