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Group Members
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Bat Shahar Dorfman
Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2017 – 2020
Ohad Levkovich
Using Computer-Based Jmol Tasks for Molecular Modeling of Proteins by High-School Students: Development of Conceptual Framework, Examination of Learning Processes and Perceptions
Moriah Ariely, PhD 2018
Using scientific texts as a means to promote disciplinary scientific literacy among high-school biology students
Incumbent of the 2015 Otto Schwartz’s Fellowship for Outstanding Students, Incumbent of the Bar-Ner Memorial Prize 2018
Esther Laslo, Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2018
Michal Haskel-Ittah, Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2015-2018
Galia Zer Kavod
PhD, 2011-2017
Incumbent of the 2013 Otto Schwartz’s Fellowship for Outstanding Students.
Eran Zafrani
MSc, 2016
High school students' engagement in a school-based socioscientific project: Development of identity in practice.
Incumbent of the Feinberg Graduate School Dean's Prize for Outstanding MSc Students 2017
Inbal Flash-Gvili
Post-Doctoral Fellow 2014-2016
Lena Raved
PhD 2016
Designing a Systems Thinking Hierarchical model for Biology Education (STH-BE) and implementing it in the teaching and learning of the human transport system in junior high school. Currently at the Trump Foundation.
Tom Bielik
PhD 2015
Characterizing the Teaching and Learning of Inquiry in the Bio-Tech Program for High School Biotechnology Majors. Currently a Postdoctoral fellow at Michigan State University.
Ronit Rozenszajn
Post-doctoral Fellow 2013-2014.
currently at the Levinsky College of Education, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Ronit Rozenszajn
PhD 2013
Exposing explicit and implicit dimensions of biology teachers' professional knowledge in the course of a long-term professional development program. (Incumbent of the Orly Kaplan Prize for Outstanding Students).
Yossy Machluf
Post-Doctoral Fellow 2009-2012
Currently at The National Authority for Measurement and Evaluation (RAMA), Ministry of Education, Israel.
Hadas Gelbart
Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2011
Currently at The National Authority for Measurement and Evaluation (RAMA), Ministry of Education, Israel.
Yael Furman Shaharabani
Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2009-2011
Currently at the Ort Braude College, Karmiel, Israel.
Eilat Hasson
Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2008-2010
Michal Stolarsky
PhD 2010
Thesis title: "Learning and teaching molecular genetics in Teacher-Led Outreach Laboratories (TLOL)". Currently at the Davidson Institute of Science Education, Rehovot, Israel. (Incumbent of the Keren Bar-Ner Prize for Outstanding Students).
Hagit Yarden
PhD 2010
Thesis title: "Learning and teaching biotechnological methods using interactive animations". Currently Head of Oranim Pedagogical center for Innovative Educational Technologies, Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel.
Hedda Falk
PhD 2009
Thesis title: "Characterizing and scaffolding the enactment of adapted primary literature based high-school biology curricula"
Rachel Cohen
PhD 2009
Thesis title: "The practical aspects of implementing the living cell topic as a longitudinal axis in junior-high schools". Currently at the Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel.
Hadas Gelbart
PhD 2009
Thesis title: "Bringing authentic research to the biology classroom: The influence of a web-based research simulation in bioinformatics on comprehension of genetics" (Incumbent of the Orly Kaplan Prize for Outstanding Students).
Ayelet Baram-Tsabari
PhD 2008
Thesis title: "What do students want to know about science? Using students' questions to identify scientific interests." Currently a Lecturer at the Department of Education in Technology and Science, The Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (Incumbent of the Elchanan E. Bondi Memorial Prize for outstanding PhD students).
Gur Arie Livni Alcasid, MSc 2019
Characterizing students' use of mechanistic reasoning to explain allele relationships
Hadas Gardi, MSc 2019
Biology majors’ ability to connect topics at different levels of organization: Using an online learning environment
oriah Sharon-Ariely
MSc 2008
Thesis title: "Characterization of the living cell conceptions and aspects of macro-micro thinking of Junior-High school graduates in Israel" (Incumbent of the Dean's Prize for M.Sc. Students).
Dickla Elbaz
MSc 2007
Thesis title: "Different aspects of updated media integration in biology education in Israeli high schools"
Nir Esterman
MSc 2005
Thesis title: "Group meetings of scientific interdisciplinary groups: benefits and challenges to learning"
Pazit Libros
Post-Doctoral Fellow 2003-2005
Ayelet Baram-Tsabari
MSc 2003
Thesis title: "Text genre, prior domain knowledge and subjects' attitudes as factors in scientific literacy enhancement." In the framework of a direct PhD track.
Einat Mizrahi
MSc 2003
Thesis title: "Cellular aspects of the learning topics reproduction and heredity: identification of comprehension difficulties, development of learning materials and their evaluation"
Shlomit Hadad
MSc 2003
Thesis title: "Ninth grade students' difficulties in understanding the gene expression process: characterization and classification using knowledge organization tasks"
Gilat Brill (Post-Doctoral Fellow 1998-2000).