senior researcher
doc. Mgr. Kamila Urban, PhD.
doc. Kamila Urban, PhD is Head of the Centre for Research in Education at the Institute for Research in Social Communication of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, the Czech Republic.
Her research focuses on the cognitive and metacognitive development of children from preschool age, self-regulated learning, creative problem solving, and the development of literacy in school-age children.
In 2015, she completed a research stay at the University of Bern in Switzerland, where, under the supervision of Prof. Claudia Roebers and Dr. Van Loon, she developed tools for assessing preschool children’s metacognitive skills. She subsequently adapted these tools to the Slovak context and continued to refine them through her own research.
In 2021, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for a research stay at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in the United States, where she collaborated with Prof. John Nietfeld on the development of a metacognitive game-based learning environment.
In the academic year 2023/2024, she returned to NCSU as a visiting researcher, focusing on experimental evaluation of metacognitive interventions.
In addition to her research and teaching activities, she is also engaged in knowledge transfer to educational practice – contributing to the development of teacher methodologies and delivering training programs aimed at fostering students’ metacognitive strategies, literacy, and creative thinking.
Her research focuses on the cognitive and metacognitive development of children from preschool age, self-regulated learning, creative problem solving, and the development of literacy in school-age children.
In 2015, she completed a research stay at the University of Bern in Switzerland, where, under the supervision of Prof. Claudia Roebers and Dr. Van Loon, she developed tools for assessing preschool children’s metacognitive skills. She subsequently adapted these tools to the Slovak context and continued to refine them through her own research.
In 2021, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for a research stay at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in the United States, where she collaborated with Prof. John Nietfeld on the development of a metacognitive game-based learning environment.
In the academic year 2023/2024, she returned to NCSU as a visiting researcher, focusing on experimental evaluation of metacognitive interventions.
In addition to her research and teaching activities, she is also engaged in knowledge transfer to educational practice – contributing to the development of teacher methodologies and delivering training programs aimed at fostering students’ metacognitive strategies, literacy, and creative thinking.