Research TeamCurrent

Head of SELA

Prof. Yehudit Judy Dori
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Professor Yehudit Judy Dori is member at the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. She was the Dean of the Faculty during 2017-2020 and the Dean of Continuing Education and External Studies at the Technion during 2009-2013. She is also a Senior Researcher at the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research, Haifa, Israel. She has been intermittently Visiting Professor or Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, between 2000 and 2014, and during 2020. Professor Dori holds M.Sc. in Life Sciences and Ph.D. in Science Education from the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Prof. Dori received the 2020 NARST Distinguished Contributions to Science Education through Research Award –DCRA for her exceptional research contributions and strong national and international community engagements.

Her research interests encompass learning in technology-rich environments, assessment, scientific visualizations, 21st century STEM skills, and metacognition at the high school and university levels.

Researchers

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Development and assessment of high-order thinking in chemistry education, Promoting professional development of pre- and in-service science and technology teachers
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2019-present
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315
21st century skills
"21st Century Skills Among STEM Teachers and Policy Makers – Perception, Application and Evaluation"
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2018-present
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210
Interpersonal skills and STEM Career Choices
"Self-efficacy, Soft Skills and STEM Career Choice: The Case of the FIRST Program"

Ph.D. Students

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2020-present
Office:
210
Teachers’ Assessment Knowledge
"Teachers’ Knowledge and Perceptions Towards Teaching and Assessment in an Online Environment"
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2020-present
Office:
210
Systems Thinking
"TRACOD, STEM Students and Teachers as Online Self-regulated Learners: Systems Thinking, Modeling, and Scientific Literacy"
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2020-present
Office:
210
Impact and Contribution of the Atidim Program to the Army and to the Society
"Students and Graduates of the Atidim IDF Programs: Career Choice, Retention, and Narrowing the Socio-Economic Gap"
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2020-present
Office:
210
Online teaching and assessment, SRL
"Reflection for Transition – Towards Online Assessment for Learning"
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2022-present
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210
Soft skills and Career choice
"Soft skills and Career choice of Adir B'Marom College of Technology Students and Graduates"
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2022-present
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210
Career choice of FIRST graduates and students
"Choice and persistence of female and male participants in the FIRST program in STEM studies and career: The gender perspective"

M.Sc. Students

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2020-present
Office:
210
Co-advisor:
Clinical Associate Professor Dan Waisman
Medical Education
"Perceptions of Neonatologists towards Traditional and Competency-Based Medical Education during the Specialty Fellowship"