IN COOPERATION WITH SISWA HEIKOOP AT CBR
Most people know the CBR as the place to go to when you want to obtain your driver’s license. However, CBR has a lot more responsibilities. For example, the CBR is also responsible for the development and administration of a wide range of other exam products (e.g., inland shipping, private and professional aviation, taxi, freight and passenger transport by road), setting up and running research projects, and it is involved in several innovative developments.
ORGANIZATION
The organization that hosts the assignments is the CBR in Rijswijk. It is possible for the intern/graduation student to work on location.
The contact person and supervisor within the CBR is Siswa Heikoop-van Riesen. She studied Educational Psychology (then: Learning Sciences) at the UT. Hereafter she completed her PhD under the supervision of Ton de Jong and Hannie Gijlers.
Siswa will be the main supervisor of students that will join the CBR. Depending on the project that students will contribute to, additional employees of the CBR will play a role in the supervision.
ASSIGNMENT
There are several interesting graduation and internship opportunities within the CBR for students with a background in learning and education. Some internship opportunities that we currently offer are:
- developing training guidelines for vocational education within transportation to facilitate educators and trainers;
- research related to virtual classroom training.
METHOD
A range of methods is possible to conduct and will be designed in consultation with the internal (UT) and external (CBR) supervisor. The main requirement is that the chosen method results in a substantiated proposal for an effective design and is relevant for the specific population and goal of the assignment.
When you will start with the project at CBR as part of your internship, the following features are additional parts of the experience. You will, among other things, gain insight, perform activities, and acquire competencies in:
- the framework within which the project is carried out;
- the stakeholders that are important;
- the ‘political’ environment and communication that goes with it;
- working outside the academic world, whilst applying academic principles;
- substantiated transfer of your ideas to supervisors and managers;
- presenting results and implications, including the actions taken and their substantiation.
REQUIREMENT
For this assignment the student must be fluent in Dutch.