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Research Interests

Epistemic thinking, Metacognition, Digital literacy, Multiple text comprehension, Misinformation, Inquiry learning, Game-based learning

Academic Positions

• 2023 - Current - Professor (full), Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

• 2017 - 2023 - Senior Lecturer with tenure, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

• 2015 - 2016 - Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

• 2012 - 2017- Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

• 2012 - 2012 - Research Fellow, Research Center for Innovation in Learning Technologies, the Open University of Israel, Ra'anana, Israel

Education

• Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, School of Education, 2012

• M.A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, School of Education, Summa Cum Laude, 2003

• B.A., Tel-Aviv University, Department of Philosophy, Magna Cum Laude, 1998
  Member of the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students

Professional Affiliations

• European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)

• International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)

• Society for Text and Discourse (ST&D)

Editorial Board Memberships

• Educational Psychologist

• Journal of Educational Psychology

• Contemporary Educational Psychology

• Metacognition and Learning

• Instructional Science

• Learning and Instruction

Research Grants

• 2023-2025, Principal Investigator, "Implementing and Examining a Teacher Professional Learning Model for Promoting Instruction and Assessment of Digital Information Literacy Skills", with Linor Hadar. Ministry of Education of the State of Israel.

• 2021-2023, Co-Principal Investigator, "A practice turn in learning about science: Promoting the use and perceived value of nature of science understanding in evaluating socio-scientific news", with Jessica S. C. Leung and Maurice M. W. Cheng. Hong Kong Research Grants Council.

• 2019-2023, Principal Investigator, "Learning to Integrate Diverse Information Sources: Promoting Epistemic Growth in a “Post-Truth” Era". The Israel Science Foundation (ISF). 

• 2017-2019, Principal Investigator, "Modeling Epistemic Growth: A Microgenetic Study of the Development of Epistemic Cognition",  with Clark A. Chinn. The United States-Israel Binational Science  Foundation (BSF). 

• 2013-2019, Principal Investigator, "Learning to Think about the Nature of Knowledge and Knowing in Digital Contexts". The Israel Science Foundation (ISF). 

• 2012, Principal Investigator, "The role of epistemic thinking in identification and interpretation of multiple online source perspectives", with Yoram Eshet-Alkalai. The Open University of Israel Research Fund. 

• 2009- 2010, Principal Investigator, "Young students' epistemic thinking during online learning". Research award from the School of Education, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

• 2008, Wolf Foundation grant finalist on behalf of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• 2007, Principal Investigator, "My Money: A game-based financial education program, development and research", with Anat Klemer. Yad Hanadiv (Rothschild Foundation). 

Honors & Awards

• 2022, Journal of the Learning Sciences Reviewer of the Year Recognition

• 2021, Outstanding Publication Award of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), for "Dealing with disagreement: The roles of topic familiarity and disagreement explanation in evaluation of conflicting expert claims and sources" co-authored with Eva Thomm and Talia Shlomi-Elooz

• 2021, Early Career Award of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)

• 2019, Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Haifa and the Student Association of the University of Haifa

• 2018, Journal of the Learning Sciences Best Paper Award for "On the goals of epistemic education: Promoting apt epistemic performance" co-authored with Clark Chinn. 

• 2017, The Bergmann Memorial Research Award of the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) for outstanding proposal by an early career researcher

Participation in National and International Expert Committees

• 2024 - Member of the PISA reading expert group.

• 2023 - Member of an advisory committee of the National Authority for Measurement and Evaluation in Education (RAMA) for development of a digital information literacy assessment for junior high-school students.

• 2021 - 2022 - Member of an international committee on teaching critical and evaluative thinking in science education funded by the Moore Foundation. 

• 2017 - 2019 - Member of the committee for adapting curricula and learning materials for the twenty-first century, the Initiative for Applied Educational Research of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. 

• 2006 - 2008 - Member of the writing committee of the national guidelines for developing higher-order thinking strategies, Pedagogical Secretariat, Ministry of Education, Jerusalem, Israel

Professional Positions in the Field of Educational Technology 

• 2011 - 2012 - Learning Technologies R&D Consultant, Jerusalem, Israel

• 2006 - 2011 - Pedagogical Director, Snunit Center for the Advancement of Web-Based Learning, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

• 1999 - 2006 - Instructional Designer and Project Manager, Snunit Center for the Advancement of Web-Based Learning, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel 

• 1996 - 1997 - Instructional Designer and Project Manager, Onyx Interactive Multimedia Ltd., Tel-Aviv, Israel

• 1994 - 2000 - Instructor and Course Developer, Sivan Computer College, Tel-Aviv, Israel