Academic supervision

M. Sc. students

Azriel Goldberg

1991-1992

Students conceptions on electric field and its graphic representation by means of lines of field.

Dani Ovadia

1995-1996

Problematics of teaching physics in junior-high schools in Israel.

Judith Perlamuter

1995-1997

Development of science-for-all materials for teaching in high school.

Haim Vainshtein

1995-1998

Conceptually oriented teaching of basic electricity in junior high school.

David Rashty

1998-2000

Analysis of coping of learners with computer environments

Lifshits Vadim

2003-2004

The role mathematical paradoxes in the practice of mathematical education

Agbaria Abdelkader

2002-2005

Synergetic teaching-learning of the concepts of force and pressure

Hava Sason

2002-2005

Synergetic teaching-learning of the concepts of energy and momentum

Lina Vinitsky

2003-2005

The use of the history and philosophy of mathematics and science in school education in Israel.

Michael Morris

2003-2005

The problems of learning electromagnetism at the high school level

Zully  Plomenbaum

2004-2005

Teaching Science and Mathematics as a culture in a high school

Tally Shapira

2005- 2007

Constructing the Day-Night concepts with Low functioning Middle school students Using the Thinking Journey.

Liora Gordon

2005-2007

Learning and Constructing scientific concepts of Middle school students using the Thinking Journey mode" (The concepts of the Earth, gravity, up and down directions)

Ilan Keren

2006-2008

Importance of area of validity in physics education – the case of Galileo's law of free falling. 

Oren Eckstein

2005-2010

The influence of astronomy teaching (Day-Night and the Earth Revolution) in Thinking Journey mode on the dynamic thinking of drop-out students


Ph. D. students

Amnon Hazan

(with distinction; the Kennedy-Lee Price)

1995-2000

Using materials of history and philosophy in high school teaching of physics. The case of optics.

Yaron Lehavi

1996-2006

Physics majors university training in perspective of high school teaching.

Dov Kaplan

1996-2005

Teaching forces in high school physics.

Osama El-Mimi

(VATAT stipendiant)

2000-2005

Physics instruction contents in perspective of implementations of physics education research – cross national perspective.

Masha Shani

2001-2006

Teaching the concept of energy in the middle school (with T. Milgrom).

Azaiza Ibtisam

2001 - 2006

Evaluation research on teaching electricity as a means to improve instructional materials (with V. Bar).

Hana Stein

2005 - 2010

Splitting the concept of gravitation in the context of teaching by Thinking Journey

Yaffa Brosh

2007 - 2011

The need for a compound definition of scientific concepts in physics teaching – the concept of weight in the middle school

Intisar Natsheh

2008-

Visualization in mathematics education (with A. Arcavi)

Yarden Ben Horin

2008-

Inertial forces in physics education

 

Post-Doc. researchers

Dr. Valentina Lavrik

1994-1997

Students’ conceptions in optics and the factors, which determine conceptual growth.

Dr. Ayelet Weizmann

2000-2001

Pupils’ perception of the concept of sky.

Dr. Nurit Hochberg

2009-2010

Teachers' evaluation of the integrated course of science – disciplinary knowledge, affective aspects, experience.

 

High School Matriculation thesis

Itamar Koelewijn

(with distinction)

2003-2004

Teaching history of science, as an approach in writing physics textbooks: the case of optics