Urban Kamila












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            Structured CV URBAN Kamila


            Research Interests
            Metacognition

            Self-regulated learning
            Creative problem-solving
            Early literacy


            Employment History

            06/2021 - present: senior researcher at Institute for Research in Social Communication, Sl
            Sciences
            10/2020 - present: assistant professor at Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Charl

            09/2018 – 09/2020: assistant professor at Institute of Education and Communication, Czech 
            Life Sciences Prague


            Selected grant projects (2013-2023)
            Language and cognitive impacts of socio-economic, cultural and educational conditions in p
            the development of literacy in primary education

            Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic (VEGA 2/0026/2
            01/01/2021 – 31/12/2024 (principal investigator)
            Active parental influence on their offspring´s romantic relationships

            Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR n. 22-27522S) Duration: 01/2022 – 12/2024 (team member)
            ELD-ET - Effective reading behavior strategies studied at key stages of literacy developme
            Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV-19-0074) Duration: 01/07/2020 – 30/06/2024 (t

            A Learning Environment to Support Comprehension Monitoring with Informational Science Text
            U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF#1761110) Duration: 06/2018 – 05/2023 (team member)
            Design and Implementation of the Concept and Methodology of "Career Learning" in Vocationa

            Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TL02000256) Duration: 02/2019 – 12/2022 (team mem
            Pedagogical impacts and developmental achievements resulting from curricular changes in pr
            Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic (VEGA 2/0134/1

            01/2018 – 12/2020 (team member)

            Selected publications (2013-2023)

            Urban, K. (Ed.) (2023). Development of Key Literacy Skills in Early Childhood Education. P
            Urban, M., & Urban, K., Nietfeld, J. L. (2023). The effect of a distributed metacognitive 
            intervention on reading comprehension. Metacognition and Learning, 18(2), 405-424. https:/

            s11409-023-09334-1 [corresponding author]
            Urban, M., & Urban, K. (2023). Orientation Toward Intrinsic Motivation Mediates the Relati
            Metacognition and Creativity. Journal of Creative Behavior, 57(1), 6-16. https://doi.org/1

            [corresponding author]
            Urban, K., & Urban, M. (2023). How can we measure metacognition in creative problem-solvin
            Standardization of the MCPS scale. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 49, no. 101345. https:/

            j.tsc.2023.101345
            Urban, M., & Urban, K. (2023). Do We Need Metacognition for Creativity? A Necessary Condit
            Creative Metacognition. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online

            https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000647
            Urban, K., Pesout, O., Kombrza, J., & Urban, M. (2021). Metacognitively aware university s
            higher creativity and motivation to learn. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 42, no. 100963.

            doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2021.100963
            Urban, M., & Urban, K. (2021). Unskilled but aware of it? Cluster analysis of creative met
            preschool age to early adulthood. Journal of Creative Behavior, 55(4), 937-945. https://do

            jocb.499
            Urban, K., & Urban, M. (2021). Anchoring effect of performance feedback on accuracy of met
            monitoring in preschool children. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 17(1), 104–118. https://

            ejop.2397
            Urban, K., & Urban, M. (2021). Effects of performance feedback and repeated experience on 
            accuracy in high- and low-performing preschool children. European Journal of Psychology of

            109-124. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-019-00460-6

            Academic Honours and Awards (2013-2023)

            SAIA Scholarship (2023)
            Honorable mention for the best publication activity of young scientists of the Slovak Acad
            up to 35 years of age (2022)

            Awards of the President of the SAS for promotion or popularisation of research (2021)
            EARLI 2021 Jacob’s Foundation Scholarship (2021)
            Fulbright Scholarship (2020)

            The COST E-READ ITC Conference grant (2019)
            EARLI 2019 Jacob’s Foundation Scholarship (2019)
            Postdoctoral position at SAS for outstanding doctoral students (2018)


            Research stays (2013-2023)
            10/2023 – 04/2024: NC State University, USA

            04/2022 – 04/2022: Instytut Psychologii, University of Wroclaw, Poland
            01/2021 – 05/2021: NC State University, USA
            06/2019 – 06/2019: Aeres Hogeschool Wageningen, Netherlands

            10/2015 – 12/2015: Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory at the University of Bern, Sw