Arno Muijtjens, MSc, PhD
Function: Methodologist/Statistician and Associate Professor at the School of Health Professions Education
Department: Educational Development & Research, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University
Email: a.muijtjens@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Arno Muijtjens was trained in Electrical Engineering (Measurement and Control) at the Eindhoven Technical University and has a PhD in Medical Informatics from Maastricht University. In 1999 he joined the Dept. of Educational Development and Research with a major interest in methodology and statistics in educational research, educational measurement, and assessment. More specific areas of interest are progress testing and computer based testing.
He is a psychometrical consultant for student assessment at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, and for the Interuniversity Progress Test in Medicine. He is a consultant on quantitative methods for Research in Education, the research programme of the School of Health Professions Education (SHE), and is involved with supervising several PhD candidates.
He participates in research projects within and outside SHE, and is author/co-author of more than 90 publications in international peer reviewed scientific journals. He teaches quantitative research methods within the Master of Health Professions Education programme, and in post-graduate workshops and courses on research in medical education. As a project manager he is involved with externally funded projects on the advanced computer based development of progress testing.
