career

• Psychological Tests: Psychometry, Continuous Norming
• Propensity Score Matching: MAGMA-Algorithm & MAGMA.R R-package
• Education: Intelligence, Achievement, intersectionality
• Personality: Social-Emotional Skills

• Timmerman, M. E. T., de Bildt, A., & Urban, J. (2025). The GRoNC-Checklist: Guidelines for Reporting on Norm-referenced and Criterion-referenced scores.
• Scherrer, V., Petry, N., Breit, M., Urban, J., Preuß, J., & Preckel, F. (2025). Effects of Proctoring on Online Intelligence Measurement: A Literature Overview and an Empirical Study. Journal of Intelligence, 13(9), https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence13090110
• Schneider, S. L. & Urban, J. (2025). A myriad of options: Validity and comparability of alternative education measures across countries. Survey Methods: Insights from the Field. https://doi.org/10.13094/SMIF-2025-00008
• Lechner, C. M.* & Urban, J.* (2025). Inequalities in Adolescents’ Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills: Differences Across Social Categories and Their Intersections. Learning and Individual Differences, 118(102605). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2024.10260
• Urban, J., Scherrer, V., Strobel, A., & Preckel, F (2025). Continuous Norming Approaches: A Systematic Review and Real Data Example. Assessment, 32(5). https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911241260545
• Urban, J., Scherrer, V., Strobel, A., & Preckel, F (2024). Normierung von Tests und Frageboegen: Ein systematischer Methodenueberblick fuer deutschsprachige Verfahren. Diagnostica, 70(4), 187-197. https://doi.org/10.1026/0012-1924/a000334
• Gnas, J., Urban, J., Feuchter, M. D., & Preckel, F. (2024). Socio-emotional experiences of primary school students: Relations to teachers’ underestimation, overestimation, or accurate judgment of their cognitive ability. Social Psychology of Education, 27, 2417-2454. https:://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-024-09915-1
• Pastötter, B., Urban, J., Lötzer, J., & Frings, C. (2022). Retrieval Practice Enhances New Learning but does Not Affect Performance in Subsequent Arithmetic Tasks. Journal of Cognition, 5(1), 22. http://doi.org/10.5334/joc.216

*equally contributing authors

• Urban, J., Scherrer, V., Strobel, A., & Preckel, F. (September 2025). Kontinuierliche Normierungsverfahren: Stand der Forschung, Anwendungen und methodische Herausforderungen. [Symposium Talk]. DPPD, Kassel, Germany.
• Urban, J., Feuchter, M. D., & Preckel F. (October 2025). MAGMA – A multi-group matching algorithm and a framework to evaluate balance. [Paper Session]. FGME, Berlin, Germany.
• Urban, J., Lechner, C. M., Keller, L., Brunner, M., Lüdtke, O., & Preckel, F. (September 2024). Intersektionalität in schulischer Leistung [Paper Session]. DGPs Kongress 2024, Vienna, Austria.
• Feuchter, M. D., Urban, J., & Preckel, F. (September 2024). Propensity Score Matching für bis zu vier Gruppen: eine Demonstration des MAGMA-Package [Method Demonstration]. DGPs Kongress 2024, Vienna, Austria.
• Urban, J., Scherrer, V., & Preckel, F. (July 2024). A Comparison of the Validity of Intelligence test Scores based on Conventional Norms or Continuous Norms [Poster Session]. ISIR Zürich, Swiss.
• Schneider, S. L. & Urban, J. (July 2024). A myriad of options: Validity and comparability of alternative education measures for the mixed-mode ESS [Paper Session].  5th International ESS Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Urban, J., Scherrer, V., Strobel, A., & Preckel, F. (July 2024). Where are we and Where to go? - A Systematic Review and Real Data Example of Continuous Norming [Invited Symposium Talk]. ITC conference, Granada, Spain.
• Timmerman, M., de Bildt, A., & Urban, J. (July 2024). The GRoNC-Checklist: Guidelines for Reporting on Norm-referenced and Criterion-referenced scores [Invited Symposium Talk]. ITC conference, Granada, Spain.
• Lechner, C. M. & Urban, J. (March 2024). Social Inequality in Adolescents’ Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills: Main Effects or Intersectionality? [Paper Session]. GEBF, Potsdam, Germany.
• Urban, J., Feuchter, M. D., & Preckel, F. (March 2024). Heating Up! Using the MAGMA Algorithm to Balance out Complex Study Designs in Educational Field Research [Paper Session]. GEBF, Potsdam, Germany.
• Urban, J., Schmidt, I., & Groskurth, K. (2023). Evaluating the quality of the ISSP Occupational Commitment Scale (ISSP-OCC) across countries: Does economy have its price? 10th Conference of the European Research Association, 2023-07-21.
• Ell, T., Urban, J., Repke, L., & Silber, H. (2023). Entwicklung und Validierung einer Kurzskala zu sozialen Offline- und Online-Kontakten während der Covid-19-Pandemie. Frühjahrstagung der Sektion Soziologische Netzwerkforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, 2023-03-15.
• Feuchter, M., Urban J., & Preckel, F. (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, J., Scherrer, V., Strobel, A., & Preckel, F. (2023). Testing Norms: Comparing Continuous and Conventional Norming Methods for the NFC-KIDS. 10. GEBF Conference, 2023-02-28.

Best Student Poster Award at the 2024 annual Conference of the International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR)