Informing
Policy
for Progress

Yehudit Dori

Senior Research Fellow
Education
Specializations:

Science and engineering education; educational technologies and scientific visualizations; higher-order thinking skills; metacognition and self-regulated learning; assessment; STEM career choice; 21st century skills

Education:

PhD Science Education, Weizmann Institute of Science

MSc Life Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science

DIPT Tel Aviv University

BSc Chemistry and Biochemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Specializations:

Science and engineering education; educational technologies and scientific visualizations; higher-order thinking skills; metacognition and self-regulated learning; assessment; STEM career choice; 21st century skills

About

Yehudit Judy Dori is a Professor Emerita at the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. She was Dean of her Faculty and Dean of Continuing Education and External Studies at Technion. She has been intermittently Visiting Professor and Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests encompass educational technology, assessment, 21st century STEM skills, and metacognition. Prof. Dori co-edited two books on cognition and metacognition in STEM education, published by Springer. In 2023, she co-edited the book Digital Learning and Teaching in Chemistry, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. She mentored 75 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, many of whom are faculty at universities in Israel and abroad. 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.

Publications
Projects
May 2024

Evaluating the Technion Excellence Program

Yehudit Dori, Zehavit Kohen, Orit Herscovitz