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Klaas Sijtsma is emeritus professor of psychometrics at Tilburg University. He was appointed University Provost of Tilburg University as of September 1, 2019. He was president of the Psychometric Society in 2010. Sijtsma earned his Ph.D. at the University of Groningen in 1988 under the supervision of Ivo Molenaar. His main research interest is the measurement of individual differences on psychological attributes.

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Wijsen, L.D. (2023). Klaas Sijtsma. In: Twenty Interviews With Psychometric Society Presidents. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34858-7_20

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