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Vita

I am research associate at GESIS. I completed my Bachelor`s (B.Sc.), and Master`s degree (M.Sc.) at Trier University (2017-2022). My minors were physiology and genetics for psychologists. In my Bachelor`s thesis, I examined the generalizability of test potentiated new learning, while my Master`s thesis compared conventional and continuous norming methods for a real data example. You find my CV on this page with more information about me.
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Service

My service task are related to the open access repository for measurement instruments CIS. To top

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.
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Publications

Publication

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Journal article

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.

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Working and discussion paper

Urban, Julian, Vsevolod Scherrer, Anja Strobel, and Franzis Preckel. 2023. Continuous Norming Approaches: A Systematic Review and Real Data Example. doi: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5azep.

Urban, Julian, Vsevolod Scherrer, Anja Strobel, and Franzis Preckel. 2023. Normierung von Tests und Fragebögen: Ein systematischer Methodenüberblick für deutschsprachige Verfahren. doi: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zcr8m.

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.

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Data/Software

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.

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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,

Lecture

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Presentation at a conference

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.

Lechner, Clemens, and Julian Urban. 2024. "Social Inequality in Adolescents’ Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills: Main Effects or Intersectionality?" GEBF 2024, 2024-03-18.

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.