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Irma Brkovic
Senior Lecturer
Unit for General Didactics and Pedagogic WorkAbout Irma Brkovic
I received a degree in psychology from the University of Zagreb (Croatia) in 2003. I received a Master of Science in health psychology from Leiden University (the Netherlands) in 2006, and defended my doctoral thesis in developmental psychology at the University of Zagreb in 2010. I have attended numerous methodological and statistical seminars and workshops, for example at A European Data Laboratory for Comparative Social Research in Cologne (2007, 2008) and Manheim (2010).
Before starting my academic career, I worked as survey specialist in institutional and social assessment, on projects financed by, for example, the World Bank, the International Red Cross, and IBRD. At the University of Zagreb, I worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Psychology, teaching and researching mostly in the area of developmental psychology and educational psychology. I also taught developmental psychology at the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences and the Faculty of Teacher Education. I have been working as a senior lecturer at IDPP since 2016.
I currently teach research methodology in courses at undergraduate level in teacher education programmes, in the research master’s programmes Master i Didaktik, International Master’s Programme in Educational Research, and Education for Sustainable Development, as well as in the Doctoral Degree Programme in Psychology. In addition, I teach topics in pedagogical work and developmental science in courses for international students at GU as well as at the Center for Educational Science and Teacher Research (CUL).
When teaching and supervising, I implement experience from over 20 years of research in the social sciences. In my research I have implemented cross-sectional (1, 2, 3, 4), longitudinal (5), cohort-sequential (6, 7) and school-based (quasi)experimental (8, 9, 10, 11, 26) research designs. I have always been passionate about methodological and psychometric challenges related to studying different age groups of children and adults. I have worked with these challenges when studying groups of lower (8, 9, 10, 11) and upper (5, 23, 24, 25) primary school children, upper secondary school children (12), young adults (13, 14, 15), adults (17, 18) and the elderly (19). I also worked with family (16, 17) and medical (20, 21, 22) studies.
As a part of various research collaborations, I have focused on developing methodological and analytical approaches to studying child development and parent-child relationships, reading and writing during early and late schooling, children’s early understanding of numbers, and student teachers’ conceptions of didactics and plant awareness. I am currently working in projects studying mentor teachers’ professional development, teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs, the role of mobility in student teachers’ professional development as well as the role of teacher education in developing student research competencies.
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Improvements in learning addition and subtraction when using a structural approach in first
grade
Angelika Kullberg, Camilla Björklund, Ulla Runesson, Irma Brkovic, Maria Nord, Tuula Maunula
Educational Studies in Mathematics - 2024 -
Putting plants in the
picture
Dawn Sanders, Eva Nyberg, Irma Brkovic
Environmental Education Research - 2024 -
Growing Through Mentoring – The Professional Development of Mentors in
Sweden
Sally Windsor, Irma Brkovic, Ali Yildirim, Ilona Rinne, Anna Maria Hipkiss
European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Nicosia, 2024 - 2024 -
Mentoring factors and processes as predictors of mentor teachers´ professional development: A large-scale survey
study
Ali Yildirim, Irma Brkovic, Sally Windsor, Ilona Rinne, Anna Maria Hipkiss
American Educational Research Association Conference - 2024 -
Mentoring student teachers – a reflection of what you know or who you
are.
Anna Maria Hipkiss, Sally Windsor, Irma Brkovic, Ali Yildirim, Ilona Rinne
Nordic Educational Research Association, NERA - 2024 -
Mentor growth through
mentoring
Ilona Rinne, Sally Windsor, Anna Maria Hipkiss, Ali Yildirim, Irma Brkovic
Nordic Educational Research Association, NERA - 2024 -
Determinants of Mentor Teachers´ Self-efficacy Beliefs in
Mentoring
Irma Brkovic, Ali Yildirim, Sally Windsor, Ilona Rinne, Anna Maria Hipkiss
NERA Conference, Malmö, 2024 - 2024 -
The role of openness and cultural intelligence in students' intention to study
abroad
Ana Butkovic, Irma Brkovic, Ines Buretic
Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education - 2024 -
“I give and they give back”: Teachers´ views on the professional implications of
mentoring
Ilona Rinne, Sally Windsor, Anna Maria Hipkiss, Ali Yildirim, Irma Brkovic
Professional Development in Education - 2023 -
Mentor
Growth
Sally Windsor, Ali Yildirim, Irma Brkovic, Ilona Rinne, Anna Maria Hipkiss
European Conference for Educational Research (ECER) - Glasgow 2023 - 2023 -
The Effects of a Multimodal Intervention on the Reading Skills of Struggling Students: An Exploration Across
Countries
L. Falth, Irma Brkovic, G. Kerestes, I. Svensson, Erland Hjelmquist, Tomas Tjus
Reading Psychology - 2023 -
Research note: Growing through mentoring: an activity-based inquiry into mentor teacher growth in knowledge and
practice
Sally Windsor, Irma Brkovic, Ali Yildirim, Ilona Rinne, Anna Maria Hipkiss
Nordisk Tidskrift för Allmän Didaktik - 2023 -
Individual-level multiculturalism and cultural
intelligence
Ana Butkovic, Irma Brkovic, Kerestes Gordana, Ivona Grgurinovic, Melita Puklek Levpuscek
ISSID 2023 Conference - 2023 -
Growing through mentoring: An activity based inquiry into mentor teachers' knowledge and
practices
Sally Windsor, Irma Brkovic, Anna Maria Hipkiss, Ilona Rinne, Ali Yildirim
The European Conference for Educational Research (ECER) Yerevan 2022 - 2022 -
Induction and Mentoring of New Teachers in the Nordics as an Ecology of Practices
Round table, Swedish
contribution
Sally Windsor, Irma Brkovic
NERA conference, Reyjkavik, Iceland 1-3 June, 2022 - 2022 -
Travel experiences and cultural
intelligence
Ana Butkovic, Irma Brkovic, Ines Buretic, Ivona Grgurinovic, Katarina Grubo, Gordana Kerestes
XXIII. Psychology Days in Zadar, Book of Abstracts, Zadar, 2022. - 2022 -
Teaching and learning addition and subtraction bridging through ten using a structural
approach
Angelika Kullberg, Camilla Björklund, Maria Nord, Tuula Maunula, Ulla Runesson Kempe, Irma Brkovic
Fernández, C., Llinares, S., Gutiérrez, A., & Planas, N. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 45th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Vol. 3, pp. 83-90). Alicante, Spain: PME - 2022 -
Intervention Targeting Reading and Working Memory among Struggling Readers in Primary
School
Linda Fälth, Irma Brkovic
Medical Research Archives - 2021 -
Beauty, memories and Symbolic meaning: Swedish student teachers´ views of their favourite plant and
animal
Eva Nyberg, Irma Brkovic, Dawn Sanders
Journal of Biological Education - 2021 -
BEYOND PLANT BLINDNESS: SEEING THE IMPORTANCE OF PLANTS FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD-An Overview of Preliminary
Findings
Dawn Sanders, Bente Eriksen, Eva Nyberg, Irma Brkovic
Botanic Gardens, People and Plants for a Sustainable World. Espírito-Santo, M.D., Soares, A.L. & Veloso, M. (eds) - 2020 -
Effects of learning addition and subtraction in preschool by making the first ten numbers and their relations visible with finger
patterns
Angelika Kullberg, Camilla Björklund, Irma Brkovic, Ulla Runesson Kempe
Educational Studies in Mathematics - 2020 -
Literacy development beyond early schooling: a 4‑year
follow‑up study of
Croatian
Gordana Kerestes, Irma Brkovic, Linda S. Siegel, Tomas Tjus, Erland Hjelmquist
Reading and writing - 2019 -
Didaktik i
lärarutbildning
Mattias Börjesson, Irma Brkovic
Vetenskaplighet i högre utbildning : erfarenheter från lärarutbildning. Franck, Olof (red) - 2019 -
Students’ and teachers’ conception and perception of the content in, and understanding of Didaktik in teacher
education.
Mattias Börjesson, Irma Brkovic, Silwa Claesson
NERA 2018, 8-10 March, Oslo - 2018 -
Using fingers to discern the structure of part-whole relations of numbers in
preschool
Angelika Kullberg, Camilla Björklund, Irma Brkovic, Ulla Runesson
E. Bergqvist, M. Österholm, C. Granberg & L. Sumpter (Eds.). Proceedings of the 42nd Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Vol. 3, pp. 267-274) - 2018 -
Beyond Plant Blindness: Seeing the importance of plants for a sustainable world
(Poster)
Dawn Sanders, Eva Nyberg, Bryndis Snæbjørnsdóttir, Mark Wilson, Bente Eriksen, Irma Brkovic
State of the World's Plants Symposium, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew May 25 - May 26 2017 - 2017 -
Bortom 'Plant Blindness': Att se växternas betydelse för en hållbar värld: Preliminära resultat och
implikationer
Dawn Sanders, Eva Nyberg, Anna Maria Hipkiss, Irma Brkovic
Presentation vid Utbildningsvetenskapliga fakultetens samverkanskonferens Forskning Pågår, Göteborg, 31 oktober 2017 - 2017 -
Teachers ́ assessment of children’s oral language and literacy achievement: a multilevel
approach
Irma Brkovic, Gordana Kerestes, Erland Hjelmquist, Tomas Tjus
18th European Conference on Developmental Psychology. Utrecht, Netherlands: August 29 - September 1 - 2017 -
Predicting reading achievement from reading self-concept, leasure time reading, and
gender
Gordana Kerestes, Irma Brkovic, Erland Hjelmquist, Tomas Tjus
18th European Conference on Developmental Psychology. Utrecht, Netherlands: August 29 - September 1 - 2017 -
Computerized orthographic training of severely reading disabled children in Croatia and
Sweden
Tomas Tjus, Erland Hjelmquist, Gordana Kerestes, Linda Fälth, Irma Brkovic, Idor Svensson
18th European Conference on Developmental Psychology. Utrecht, Netherlands: August 29 - September 1 - 2017 -
First-grade high school student attitudes about the role of Police and preventive activities of Zagreb
Police
Razum Josip, Irma Brkovic, Valenta Zdravko
POLICIJA I SIGURNOST-POLICE AND SECURITY - 2015 -
Long-term predictors of reading and writing in transparent orthography: A 4-year longitudinal study of
Croatian
Gordana Kerestes, Irma Brkovic, Linda Siegel, Tomas Tjus, Erland Hjelmquist
17th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, September 8-12, Braga, Portugal - 2015 -
Analysis of Cesarean Section Delivery at Nova Bila Hospital according to the Robson
Classification
Ljiljana Bilobrk-Josipovic, Jadranka Dizdarevic-Stojanovic, Irma Brkovic
Collegium Antropologicum - 2015 -
Cognitive abilities and socio-economic status as predictors of reading and writing skills in early
schooling
Irma Brkovic, S Strnad-Jerbic, N Dujic, D Kovac, M Maljkovic, G Kerestes, Erland Hjelmquist, Tomas Tjus
Paper presented at the Ramiro and Zoran Bujas Days, April, 15-18, Zagreb, Croatia. - 2015 -
Trajectories of change and relationship between parent-adolescent school-related conflict and academic achievement in early
adolescence
Irma Brkovic, Gordana Kerestes, Melita Levpuscek Puklek
Journal of Early Adolescence - 2014 -
Reciprocal Associations between Parenting Challenges and Parents' Personality Development in Young and Middle
Adulthood
Roos Hutteman, Wiebke Bleidorn, Gordana Kerestes, Irma Brkovic, Ana Butkovic, Jaap J.A. Denissen
European Journal of Personality - 2014 -
Personality Resemblance Between Parents and Offspring: Study of Five Factors Across Four Samples and
Questionnaires
Denis Bratko, Ana Butković, Tena Vukasović, Gordana Keresteš, Irma Brkovic
Journal of Child and Family Studies - 2014 -
Second delivery after a previous cesarean
section
Ljiljana Bilobrk Josipovic, Irma Brkovic, Zoran Pocrnja, Branka Lovrinovic, Boris Skarica, Petar Laco
Gynaecologia et Perinatologia - 2013 -
Individual, Family and Environmental Predictors of School Achievement: Testing the Moderating Role of Growing up in Differently War-affected Areas of
Croatia
Gordana Kuterovac Jagodic, Gordana Kerestes, Irma Brkovic
Psihologijske teme - 2013 -
Comparison of cross-sectional and longitudinal approach to research on self-regulation development in adolescence
(Usporedba rezultata transverzalnog i longitudinalnog pristupa procjeni razvoja samoregulacije u ranoj
adolescenciji)
Irma Brkovic, Gordana Kerestes, Gordana Kterovac Jagodic
Psihologijske teme - 2012 -
Predicting Well-Being From Personality in Adolescents and Older
Adults
Ana Butkovic, Irma Brkovic, Denis Bratko
Journal of Happiness Studies - 2012 -
Predictors of Psychological Well-Being of Adolescents'
Parents
Gordana Keresteš, Irma Brkovic, Gordana Kuterovac Jagodić
Journal of Happiness Studies - 2012 -
Self-perceptions of parenthood among mothers and fathers of young
adolescents
Gordana Kerestes, Irma Brkovic, Gordana Kterovac Jagodic
Suvremena psihologija - 2011 -
Parenting sense of competence and parent-adolescent
conflict
Kerestes Gordana, Irma Brkovic, Gordana Kterovac Jagodic
Suvremena psihologija - 2011 -
Convergent and predictive validity of vignettes as alternative measure of self-regulation in early
adolescence
Irma Brkovic, Gordana Kerestes
15th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, 23-27 August - 2011 -
Birth weights and lengths of newborns at Nova Bila
Hospital
Ljiljana Bilobrk Josipovic, Branka Lovrinovic, Jadranka Stojkanovic Dizdarevic, Irma Brkovic
Gynaecologia et Perinatologia - 2010 -
Suitability of several subjective measures of pubertal maturation for application in non-clinical research on adolescent
development
Gordana Kerestes, Irma Brkovic, Gordana Kuterovac Jagodic
Društvena istraživanja - 2010 -
Measuring pubertal maturation in research on adolescent
development
Gordana Kerestes, Irma Brkovic, Gordana Kuterovac Jagodic
Društvena istraživanja - 2010 -
Regulatory focus in early adulthood and recalled
parenting
Irma Brkovic
Suvremena psihologija - 2009 -
Attachment styles of parents of adolescents and their parenting
behavior
Gordana Kuterovac Jagodic, Gordana Kerestes, Irma Brkovic
Book of Selected Proceedings-15th Psychology Days in Zadar - 2006