Academic & Professional Activities
a. Positions in academic administration |
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| 2008 – 2009 | Head of Educational Management, Policy and Society track, Department of Education, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | |
| 2006 – 2008 | Co-head qualification in evaluation program for teachers’ educators The Mofet Institute Intercollegiate Research Authority, Tel Aviv |
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| 2005 – 2010 | Head Graduate and Post Graduate program in Evaluation. Department of Education, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
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| 2006 – 2008 | Member of the committee for PhD students, Department of Education, Ben-Gurion University | |
| 2003 – 2006 | Member of the university committee for improve teaching evaluation | |
| 2002 – | Member of the management committee of the united research centers of the department of education Ben-Gurion University | |
| 1998 – 2002 | Member of the instruction committee, Department of Education, Ben-Gurion University | |
| 1996 – | Director of the Unit for Assisting Research and Evaluation, Department of Education, Ben Gurion University | |
| 1982 – 1987 | Principal Evaluator of the Evaluation and Organizational Unit of the Humphrey Center. | |
b. Professional functions outside universities |
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| 2010 | Evaluation consultant for the Davidson Institute of Science Education at the Weizmann Institute of Science | |
| 2006 – 2009 | Co-head qualification in evaluation program for teachers’ teachers Moffet Research Institute, Tel Aviv |
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| 2005 – | Member of the Research-Colleague Network, Moffet Institute, Tel Aviv. | |
| 2004 | Member of the Committee for Integrating Internal Evaluation in School system in Israel. Subcommittee of the Dovrat National Mission Force. The Ministry of Education. | |
| 2002 | Member of the steering committee for evaluation of the Karev Program for Involvement in Education. Karev programs function in more than 45% of elementary schools in Israel. | |
| 1998 – 2005 | Management member of IAPE– Israeli Association for project evaluation | |
| 2001 – 2003 | Chairperson of IAPE – Israeli Association for project evaluation. The professional association of evaluators in Israel. | |
c. International Professional activities |
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| 1998 – 2004 | Israeli representative in The Effectiveness Initiative (E.I.) is an in-depth study structured as a cross-agency, cross-site exchange that stimulates continuing dialogue about effective programming in the field of Early Childhood Care and Development. Member of the international research group researching the effectiveness of early childhood initiatives in ten countries: Philippines, India, Kenya, Mozambique, Israel, The Netherlands, Portugal, Colombia, Peru and Honduras. The Effectiveness Initiative research is an initiative of the Bernard van Leer foundation. Other international bodies such as UNICEF, Save the Children Fund, Aga Khan Foundation and the World Bank became partners of the initiative in different levels.
The intention of the project is to discover factors that influence early childhood programs’ effectiveness in different settings, situations and context. |
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| 2000 – 2003 | Israeli representative in The Tracer Studies – an initiative of the Bernard van Leer Foundation, The Netherlands. This is an effort to trace former participants of early childhood project and programs. Nine countries were part of this mutual initiative: Jamaica, Kenya, Botswana, Trinidad, Ireland, Israel, Colombia, USA, and Honduras. | |
| 2002 – | Re-composing culture – An international research of three cultures undergoing massive cultural changes: The Indians in Peru, The Ethiopian population in Israel and the Aeta in the Philippines. The Aeta people had to move because of a catastrophe (volcano eruption); the Ethiopian population immigrated to Israel and in Peru the “mainstream culture” is invading the natives’ culture and forcing them to change. The research follows the role of children in these cultural changes, through five themes: Society and cultural structure; Family roles and structure; learning and acquiring knowledge; partnerships and health and nutrition. | |
| 2004 | Consulting the evaluation team of the Faculty of Psychology: Built in evaluation for the faculty new learning program. UNAM Mexico city, Mexico | |
d. Significant professional consulting |
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| 2010 | Steering committee member of the “School Evaluation Network” Karev programs, Israel | |
| 2004 | Consulting the evaluation team of the Faculty of Psychology: Built in evaluation for the faculty new learning program. UNAM Mexico city, Mexico | |
| 2000 – 2003 | Supervisor of the manager and members of the evaluation unit, “Karev-Programs for Educational Involvement” that work in 45% of the elementary schools in Israel. | |
| 2000 – 2002 | Academic consultant vis-a-vis the process of assimilation of internal evaluation and organizational learning in a large experimental high school (Mekif G). | |
| 2002 | Supervisor and advisor of the “School Evaluation Network” in Israel | |
| 1997 – 1998 | Member of the Professional Steering Committee for research into “The not-spoken traumas.” Dealing with the post-traumatic phenomena among women who emigrated from Ethiopia to Israel in “Operation Moses.” A joint study by the Community Services Department, Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, the Falk Institute and the Section for the Integration of Immigrants of the Israel Joint Distribution Committee. | |
| 1995 – 1997 | Consultant for the boarding school management at the “Eshel-Hanasi” youth village. | |
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