Irma Brkovic
Senior Lecturer
Unit for General Didactics and PedagogicAbout Irma Brkovic
I received a degree in psychology from the University of Zagreb (Croatia). In 2006, I received a Master of Science in health psychology from Leiden University (the Netherlands). I defended my doctoral thesis titled “Development of self-regulation in early adolescence and the role of parental behaviour” at the University of Zagreb (2010). I worked as a research and teaching assistant, as a post-doctoral fellow and as an assistant professor at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. I also taught at the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences and the Faculty of Teacher Education. From September 2016, I have been working as a senior lecturer in pedagogical work at IDPP. In my research, I focus on development and parent-child relationships during adolescence, with a special interest in the development of self-regulation and parenting behaviours, as well as the development of reading and writing during early and late schooling. I collaborate on projects investigating student teachers’ conceptions of didactics, plant-blindness, children’s early understanding of numbers, and early communication and language development.
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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 -
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 Gubo
23rd Psychology Days in Zadar: Book of Abstracts - 2022 -
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 - 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 -
Didaktik i
lärarutbildning
Mattias Börjesson, Irma Brkovic
Vetenskaplighet i högre utbildning : erfarenheter från lärarutbildning. Franck, Olof (red) - 2019 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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