The many faces of GESIS
Vita
I am research associate at GESIS and Trier University. I completed my Bachelor`s (B.Sc.), and Master`s degree (M.Sc.) in Psychology at Trier University (2017-2022). You find my CV on this page with more information about me.Service
My service task are related to the open access repository for measurement instruments CIS.Research
My research interest are psychological methods as well as applied educational research. I am interested in psychometrics, especially continuous norming, other aspects of scales and casual inference. My research regarding casual inference included the development of the MAGMA R-package. This package does not only facilitate the process of matching but also expands matching to more than two groups. In my applied research, I examine intelligence, socio-emotional skills, intersectionality, and other constructs deceisive for education. You find more information about my research on Researchgate..
Publications
Journal article
Urban, Julian, Vsevolod Scherrer, Anja Strobel, and Franzis Preckel. 2024. "Continuous Norming Approaches: A Systematic Review and Real Data Example." Assessment online first. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911241260545.
Urban, Julian, Vsevolod Scherrer, Anja Strobel, and Franzis Preckel. 2024. "Normierung von Tests und Fragebögen: Ein systematischer Methodenüberblick für deutschsprachige Verfahren." Diagnostica online first. doi: https://doi.org/10.1026/0012-1924/a000334.
Gnas, Jessica, Julian Urban, Markus Daniel Feuchter, and Franzis Preckel. 2024. "Socio-emotional experiences of primary school students: Relations to teachers’ underestimation, overestimation, or accurate judgment of their cognitive ability." Social Psychology of Education online first. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-024-09915-1.
Pastötter, Bernhard, Julian Urban, Johannes Lötzer, and Christian Frings. 2022. "Retrieval practice enhances new learning but does not affect performance in subsequent arithmetic tasks." Journal of Cognition 5 (1): 22. doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.216.
Working and discussion paper
Urban, Julian, Katharina Groskurth, and Isabelle Schmidt. 2023. Organizational Commitment Scale (ISSP). Zusammenstellung sozialwissenschaftlicher Items und Skalen (ZIS). doi: https://doi.org/10.6102/zis312.
Urban, Julian, Markus Daniel Feuchter, Vsevolod Scherrer, Moritz Breit, and Franzis Preckel. 2023. Turn up the Heat! A Tutorial for the MAGMA R-package. doi: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/yfd7a.
Data/Software
Urban, Julian, and Matthias Blümke. 2024. Function Random Start Values for CFA (lavaan). doi: https://doi.org/10.7802/2712.
Urban, Julian, Markus Daniel Feuchter, Vsevolod Scherrer, Moritz Breit, and Franzis Preckel. 2024. MAGMA.R: MAny-Group MAtching_. R package version 1.0. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/MAGMA.R/index.html.
Bluemke, Matthias, and Julian Urban. 2023. Code/Syntax: Functions IPU & CI.IPU - Index of Proximity to Unidimensionality (lavaan). doi: https://doi.org/10.7802/2597.
Urban, Julian, Markus Daniel Feuchter, Vsevolod Scherrer, Moritz Breit, and Franzis Preckel. 2023. MAGMA: MAny-Group MAtching. https://github.com/JulianUrban/MAGMA.
Other article
Knopf, Thomas, Julian Urban, and Clemens Lechner. 2022. "Soziale, emotionale und selbstregulatorische Kompetenzen: Welche Kompetenzen wollen Eltern durch die Schule vermittelt sehen? Welche Kompetenzen schreiben sich Jugendliche zu?" In Projektbericht für die Bertelsmann-Stiftung,
Presentation at a conference
Urban, Julian, Vsevolod Scherrer, and Franzis Preckel. 2024. "A Comparison of the Validity of Intelligence Test Scores Based on Conventional Norms or Continuous Norms." ISIR, ETH Zürich, 2024-07-29.
Urban, Julian, Markus Daniel Feuchter, and Franzis Preckel. 2024. "Heating Up! Using the MAGMA Algorithm to Balance out Complex Study Designs in Educational Field Research." GEBF 2024, 2024-03-20.
Urban, Julian, Clemens Lechner, Lena Keller, Martin Brunner, Oliver Lüdtke, and Franzis Preckel. 2024. "Intersektionalität in schulischer Leistung." DGPs Kongress 2024, 2024-09-17.
Feuchter, Markus Daniel, Julian Urban, and Franzis Preckel. 2024. "Propensity Score Matching für bis zu vier Gruppen: eine Demonstration des MAGMA-Package." DGPs Kongress 2024, 2024-09-16.
Lechner, Clemens, and Julian Urban. 2024. "Social Inequality in Adolescents’ Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills: Main Effects or Intersectionality?" GEBF 2024, 2024-03-18.
Timmerman, Marieke, Annelies de Bildt, and Julian Urban. 2024. "The GRoNC-Checklist: Guidelines for Reporting on Norm-referenced and Criterion-referenced scores." ITC Conference, 2024-07-04.
Urban, Julian, Vsevolod Scherrer, Anja Strobel, and Franzis Preckel. 2024. "Where are we and Where to go? - A Systematic Review and Real Data Example of Continuous Norming." ITC Conference, 2024-07-04.
Ell, Theresia, Julian Urban, Lydia Repke, and Henning Silber. 2023. "Entwicklung und Validierung einer Kurzskala zu sozialen Offline- und Online-Kontakten während der Covid-19-Pandemie." "Soziale Netzwerke in Zeiten globaler Krisen", Frühjahrstagung der Sektion Soziologische Netzwerkforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, Bundesforschungsinstitut für Ländliche Räume, Wald und Fischerei , Braunschweig, 2023-03-15.
Urban, Julian, Isabelle Schmidt, and Katharina Groskurth. 2023. "Evaluating the quality of the ISSP Occupational Commitment Scale (ISSP-OCC) across countries: Does economy have its price?" ESRA 2023 : 10th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Milan (Italy), 2023-07-21.
Feuchter, Markus Daniel, Julian Urban, and Franzis Preckel. 2023. "Introducing the Many-Group Matching (MAGMA)-Algorithm." AERA, 2023-04-14. https://aera23-aera.ipostersessions.com/default.aspx?s=E5-CA-51-7B-47-39-55-30-3C-43-8B-B0-B1-45-51-D4.
Urban, Julian, Vsevolod Scherrer, Anja Strobel, and Franzis Preckel. 2023. "Testing Norms: Comparing Continuous and Conventional Norming Methods for the NFC-KIDS." 10. GEBF Tagung, Universität Duisburg-Essen, 2023-02-28.
Other
Feuchter, Markus D., Julian Urban, Vsevolod Scherrer, Moritz Breit, and Franzis Preckel. 2022. "Introduction and Demonstration of the Many-Group Matching (MAGMA)-Algorithm: Matching Solutions for Two or More Groups." doi: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/AEDXB.