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Prof. Oľga Zápotočná, PhD. graduated in psychology at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava in 1980. In 1980-1990 she worked at the Institute of Experimental Psychology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, where she (in 1988)
obtained her doctoral degree in the field of research on neuropsychological organization of cognitive functions related to reading. Since 1990 she has been an independent researcher at the Institute for Research in Social Communication of SAS at present as the head of the Centre for Educational Research. Since 1997 she has been working as university teacher. Until 2005 at the Faculty of Education Comenius University in Bratislava, where she received the degree of associate professor in educational psychology. In 2017 she has reached the academic rank of professor at the Trnava University in Trnava, where she currently works as a full professor of Education at the Faculty of Education. In her teaching, she lectures on developmental psychology, psychology of reading, and specifically she conducts courses on early literacy development and education. Currently, she supervises the Bachelor's degree program in Preschool and Elementary Pedagogy and the Master's degree program me in Teaching for Primary Education. She is a co-author of the new National curriculum for pre-primary education and the main author of the educational area "Language and Communication".
As part of her scientific and publishing activities, she deals with the issues of reading and literacy research. She has been involved in a number of research projects exploring literacy from developmental and educational perspective in wider social and cultural contexts. Among the international projects, e.g. Early Literacy Assessment Project (EU: COMENIUS SOCRATES, 2.1, Ref. 94314-CP-1-2001-1-UK) in collaboration with the Institute of Education, University of London. She was a member of the management committee of the international COST project Action IS 1404: Evolution of Reading in the Age of Digitization (E-Read, 2014-2017). In the past she was an active member of the International Development in Europe Committee (IDEC) of International Reading Association as the president of Slovak Reading Association, at presence a member of Federation of European Literacy Associations (FELA). Since 2021 she is the principal investigator of an interdisciplinary research project aimed at the study on “Effective reading and media behaviour strategies: Semi longitudinal study at key stages of literacy development using the eye-tracking methodology” granted by APVV (Slovak Research and Development Agency), carried out in collaboration with the Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava.

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Institute for Research in Social Communication: Bratislava, SK

1990 to present | senior researcher/ prof.
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Works (14)

Early literacy curriculum and its journey to kindergarten classroom

Human Affairs
2022-04-26 | Journal article
Contributors: Oľga Zápotočná; Zuzana Petrová; Marek Urban; Kamila Urban
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Comprehension and Metacomprehension in Preschoolers from Low- and Middle-Socioeconomic Status Families

Československá psychologie
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Olga Zapotocna; Kamila Urban; Marek Urban
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Predškolské indikátory úspešného vývinu čitateľskej gramotnosti

Gramotnost, pregramotnost a vzdělávání
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Olga Zapotocna; Marek Urban
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Development of early literacy skills: A Comparison of two early literacy programmes

Journal of Pedagogy
2020-12-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1338-2144
Contributors: Olga Zapotocna; Zuzana Petrová; Kamila Urban; Marek Urban
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Early Literacy Education in Preschool Curriculum Reforms

Global Education Review
2018 | Journal article
Contributors: Olga Zapotocna; Zuzana Petrová
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Metacognitive monitoring in preschool children when solving verbal and nonverbal tasks,Metakognitívny monitoring pri riešení verbálnych a neverbálnych úloh u detí predškolského veku

Ceskoslovenska Psychologie
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85040064855

Contributors: Urban, K.; Zápotočná, O.
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Reading literacy in the age of digital technologies

Human Affairs
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84983070739

Contributors: Zápotočná, O.
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Preschool and primary school pedagogy and its international acceptance: Portrait of one Slovak weakness,Predškolská a elementárna pedagogika a jej medzinárodná akceptácia: Portrét jednej Slovenskej slabosti

Orbis Scholae
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84944882103

Contributors: Kaščák, O.; Pupala, B.; Lehotská, V.; Zápotočná, O.
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Teoretické modely porozumenia textu a ich interpretácie v ŝkolskom vzdelávaní

Orbis Scholae
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84971472873

Contributors: Zápotočná, O.
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Literacy as a tool of civic education and resistance to power

Human Affairs
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84865467731

Contributors: Zápotočná, O.
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Development of active citizenship in school environment,Podiel Školy na formovaní aktívneho občianstva

Sociologia
2010 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-78649722887

Contributors: Zápotočná, O.; Lukšík, I.
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Podiel školy na formovaní aktívneho občianstva

Slovak Sociological Review
2010 | Journal article
Contributors: Olga Zapotocna; Ivan Lukšík
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Directionality in circle drawing in relation to age, sex, handedness and hand used

Studia Psychologica
1997 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-0031320666

Contributors: Zápotočná, O.
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Directionality in circle drawing: Possible underlying mechanisms

Studia Psychologica
1996 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-0030520281

Contributors: Zápotočná, O.
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