Associate Professor Yael Kali

Educational Technology; Earth Science Education

Personal Details:
Phone (Office): 972-4-8293883 Fax (Office): 972-4-8295634 Room: 246 eMail: yaelk@technion.ac.il

Mail Address: 
Yael Kali
The Department of Education in Technology and Science
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa 32000
Israel




Professional highlights:

Academic Appointments

2002-to date      Senior Lecturer. Department of Education in Technology and Science, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
2003-to date      Co-Principle Investigator, Technology Enhanced Learning in Science (TELS) center.
2006-to date      Lead researcher, Delineating and Evaluating Coherent Instructional Designs in Education (DECIDE)

Public Professional Activities

2008 to date        Member of the advisory board for the NSF-funded Cumulative Learning using Embedded Assessment Results (CLEAR) project
2008 to date        Member of the advisory board for the NSF-funded Logging Opportunities in Online Programs for Science (LOOPS) project
2008 to date        Member of the advisory board for the NSF-funded Simulations and Modeling for Technology Education (SMTE) project
2008 to date        Associate Editor for the Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal.
2007-to date        Member of the Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC)
2004-to date        Member of the discipline committee of the Israeli earth science k-12 education
2002-to date        Initiator and leader of the NSF-funded Design Principles Database Project http://design-principles.org
2006-2007           Member of the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) professional committee in education
2005-2006           Member of the steering committee of the TIMSS 2006 in Israel
2005-2006           Member of the Israeli pedagogical committee for academic online learning
2004-2006           Member of editorial board of NASA’s Virtual Design Center (VDC), Wheeling, West Virginia, USA.
2004-2006           Member of the steering committee of the PIZA 2006 in Israel

 

Research interests:

 

Education:

Selected publications:

Refereed papers in professional journals

1.    Kali, Y., & Orion, N. (1996). Spatial abilities of high-school students in the perception of geologic structures. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 33, 369-391.

2.    Kali, Y., Orion, N., & Mazur, E.  (1997). Software for assisting high school students in the spatial perception of geological structures. Journal of Geoscience Education. 45, 10-21.

3.    Orion, N., Ben-Chaim, D., & Kali, Y. (1997). Relationship between earth science education and spatial visualization. Journal of Geoscience Education, 45, 129-132.

4.    Kali, Y. (2002). CILT2000: Visualization and modeling. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 11(3), 305-310.

5.    Kali, Y. (2003). A virtual journey within the rock-cycle: A software kit for the development of systems-thinking in the context of the Earth’s crust. Journal of GeoScience Education, 51(2), 165-170.

6.    Kali, Y., Orion, N., & Eylon, B. (2003). Effect of knowledge integration activities on students’ perception of the earth’s crust as a cyclic system. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 40(6), 545-565.

7.    Orion, N., & Kali, Y. (2005). The effect of an earth-science learning program on students’ scientific thinking skills. Journal of GeoScience Education, 53(4), 387-393.

8.    Kali, Y., (2006). Collaborative knowledge-building using the Design Principles Database. International Journal of Computer Support for Collaborative Learning, 1(2), 187-201.

9.    Kali, Y., & Ronen, M. (2008). Assessing the assessors: Added value of Web-based multi-cycle peer assessment in higher education.  Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning. 3(1), 3-32.

10.  Kali, Y., & Linn, M. C. (2008). Designing effective visualizations for elementary school science. Elementary School Journal, 109(2), 181-198.

11.  Kali, Y., Levin-Peled, R., & Dori, Y. (in press). The role of design-principles in designing courses that promote collaborative learning in higher-education. Computers in Human Behavior.

12.  Kali, Y., Levin-Peled, R., Ronen-Fuhrmann, T., Hans, M. (in press). The Design Principles Database: A multipurpose tool for the educational technology community. Design Principles & Practices: An International Journal.

13.  Shamir-Inbal, T., & Kali, Y. (accepted). Teachers as designers of online activities: The role of socio-constructivist pedagogies in sustaining implementation Design Principles & Practices: An International Journal.

14.  Kali, Y., & Ronen-Fuhrmann, T. (submitted). Characterizing and instructing design knowledge in the context of educational technology design. Journal of the Learning Sciences.

Edited Books

15.  Kali, Y., Linn, M. C., & Roseman, J. E. (2008). Designing coherent science education:  Implications for curriculum, instruction, and policy. NY: Teachers College Press.

Book Chapters (Peer Reviewed)

16.  Kali, Y., & Linn, M. C. (2007). Technology-enhanced support strategies for inquiry learning. In J. M. Spector, M. D. Merrill, J. J. G. V. Merriënboer & M. P. Driscoll (Eds.), Handbook of research on educational communications and technology (3rd Edition) (pp. 445-490). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

17.  Kali, Y. (2008). The Design Principles Database as means for promoting design-based research. In A. E. Kelly, R. A. Lesh & J. Y. Baek (Eds.), Handbook of design research methods in education: Innovations in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics learning and teaching (pp. 423-438). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

18.  Kali, Y., Fortus, D., & Ronen-Fuhrmann, T. (2008). Synthesizing design knowledge. In Y. Kali, M. C. Linn & J. E. Roseman (Eds.), Designing coherent science education: Implications for curriculum, instruction, and policy (pp. 185-200). N.Y.: Teachers College Press.

19.  Kali, Y., Koppal, M., Linn, M. C., & Roseman, J. E. (2008). Preface. In Y. Kali, M. C. Linn & J. E. Roseman (Eds.), Designing coherent science education:  Implications for curriculum, instruction, and policy (pp. xi-xxi). N.Y.: Teachers College Press.

20.  Linn, M. C., Kali, Y., & Davis, E. A. (2008). Policies to promote coherence. In Y. Kali, M. C. Linn & J. E. Roseman (Eds.), Designing coherent science education: Implications for curriculum, instruction, and policy (pp. 201-210). N.Y.: Teachers College Press.

21.  Kali, Y., & Linn, M. C. (in press). Curriculum design - as subject matter: Science. In B. McGraw, E. Baker & P. Peterson (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education (3rd Edition). Philadelphia: Elsevier.

Papers in professional Journals

22.  Ronen-Fuhrmann, T., Kali, Y., & Hoadley, C. M. (2008). Helping education students understand learning through designing. Educational Technology, 48 (2), 26-33.

Refereed Papers in Conference Proceedings

International

23.  Kali, Y., Bos, N., Linn, M. C., Underwood, J., & Hewitt, J. (2002). Design Principles for Educational Software. In G. Stahl (Ed.), Computer Support for Collaborative Learning: Foundations for a CSCL Community (Proceedings of CSCL 2002). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

24.  Hoadley, C., Kali, Y. & Linn, M.C. (2004). Collaboration models for embracing diversity: Technology-supported science learning. In Kafai, Y.B.,  Sandoval, W.A., Nixon, A.S. and Herrera, F. (Eds.) (2004). Embracing Diversity in the Learning Sciences. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Learning Sciences. Santa Monica, CA.

25.  Kali, Y., Spitulnik, M., & Linn, M. (2004). Building Community Using the Design Principles Database. In P. Gerjets, P. A. Kirschner, P. A. Allen, J. Elen & R. Joiner (Eds.), Instructional Design for effective and enjoyable computer-supported learning. Proceedings of the first joint meeting of the EARLI SIGs Instructional Design and Learning and Instruction with Computers (pp. 294-305). Tuebingen: Knowledge Media Research Center.

26.  Kali, Y., & Ronen, M. (2005). Design principles for online peer-evaluation: Fostering objectivity. In T. Koschmann, D. Suthers & T. W. Chan (Eds.), Proceedings of CSCL 2005: Computer support for collaborative learning: The Next 10 Years! (pp. 247–251). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

27.  Dori, Y. J., Levin-Peled, R., & Kali, Y. (2006). Learning and assessment in IT-based environments: Design principles for hybrid courses in higher education. In T. R. S. Yamashita (Ed.), Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (pp. 1933-1939). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

28.  Peled, Y., Kali, Y., & Dori, J. (2007). A retrospective study on the interaction between faculty and administrators in technology-oriented environments. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Education (ICICTE), Heraklion Crete.

29.  Levin-Peled., R., Kali, Y., & Dori, Y. J. (2007). Promoting collaborative learning in higher education: Design principles for hybrid courses. In C. A. Chinn, G. Erkens & S. Puntambekar (Eds.), Proceedings of the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) 2007: Mice, Minds and Society (pp. 418-427). International Society of the Learning Sciences, Inc.

30.  Shamir, T., & Kali, Y. (2007). The Relation between Schoolteachers’ Perceptions about Collaborative Learning and Their Employment of Online Instruction. In C. A. Chinn, G. Erkens & S. Puntambekar (Eds.), Proceedings of the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) 2007: Mice, Minds and Society (pp. 292-300). International Society of the Learning Sciences, Inc.

31.  Kali, Y., & Ronen-Fuhrmann, T. (2007). How can the design of educational technologies affect graduate students' epistemologies about learning? . In C. A. Chinn, G. Erkens & S. Puntambekar (Eds.), Proceedings of the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) 2007: Mice, Minds and Society (pp. 320-322). International Society of the Learning Sciences, Inc.

32.  Kali, Y., Levin-Peled, R., & Dori, Y. J. (2007). How can hybrid courses designed with socio-constructivist design-principles promote learning in higher education? In T. Bastiaens & S. Carliner (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2007: World conference on e-learning in corporate, government, healthcare, & higher education (pp. 6071-6078). Chesapeake, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).

33.  Ronen-Fuhrmann, T., & Kali, Y. (2008). How to design educational technologies? The development of an instructional-model. In V. Jonker & A. Lazonder (Eds.) Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: Cre8ting a Learning World.  International Society of the Learning Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands.

34.  Hans, M., Kali, Y., & Yair, Y.  (2008). Promoting Middle-School Spatial Perception of the Moon Phases with a Web-Based Module. Proceedings of the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Baltimore, MD.

National

35.  Levin-Peled, R., Kali, Y., & Dori, J. (2006). Learning and assessment in online environments: Design principles for web-supported courses in higher education. Proceedings of the 1st  Chais conference for the study of educational technologies, 2006 (pp. 193-203). Raanana: The Open University. (In Hebrew).

36.  Ronen-Fuhrmann, T., & Kali, Y. (2006). How do we learn to design educational technologies?  The effect of an instructional model on graduate students’ epistemologies. Proceedings of the 1st  Chais conference for the study of educational technologies, 2006 (pp. 210-216). Raanana: The Open University. (In Hebrew).

37.  Shamir, T.I., & Kali, Y. (2006).Implementation of interative and collaborative pedagogies by teachers who adopt online instruction. Proceedings of the 1st  Chais conference for the study of educational technologies, 2006 (pp. 183-193). Raanana: The Open University. (In Hebrew).

38.  Peled, Y., Kali, Y., & Dori, Y.J. (2007). Interaction between science teachers and school principals and its influence on technology implementation: A retrospective analysis. Proceedings of the 2nd Chais conference for the study of educational technologies, 2007 (pp. 117-121). Raanana: The Open University. (In English)

39.  Shamir, T.I., & Kali, Y. (2007). Online instruction - A teacher's way of life or a burden? Characterizing the range of teachers' online practices. Proceedings of the 2nd Chais conference for the study of educational technologies, 2007 (pp. 174-181). Raanana: The Open University. (In Hebrew).

40.  Ronen-Fuhrmann, T., & Kali, Y. (2007). Learning to design educational technologies: Instructional model based on a design-principles database. Proceedings of the 2nd Chais conference for the study of educational technologies, 2007 (pp. 219-227). Raanana: The Open University. (In Hebrew).

41.  Hans, M., Kali, Y., & Yair, Y. (2007). Spatial perception of the moon phases: Using design-principles for the development of a Web-based module for middle-school students. Proceedings of the 2nd Chais conference for the study of educational technologies, 2007 (pp. 109-119). Raanana: The Open University. (In Hebrew).

42.  Shamir, T.I., & Kali, Y. (2008). The effect of a teacher professional development program for web-based instruction on teachers’ practices. Proceedings of the 3rd Chais conference for the study of educational technologies, 2008 (pp. 193-199). Raanana: The Open University. (In Hebrew).

43.  Levin-Peled, R., & Kali, Y. (2008). Using wiki to support inquiry learning in higher education. Proceedings of the 3rd Chais conference for the study of educational technologies, 2008 (pp. 86-93). Raanana: The Open University. (In Hebrew).

44.  Hans, M., Kali, Y., & Yair, Y. (2008). Spatial perception of the moon phases: A web-based module employing design principles for socio-constructivist learning and scientific visualization. Proceedings of the 3rd Chais conference for the study of educational technologies, 2008 (pp. 43-51). Raanana: The Open University.  (In English).

45.  Levin-Peled, R. & Kali, Y. (in press, February 2009). Using wiki to support peer instruction. Proceedings of the 4th Chais conference for the study of educational technologies, 2009. Raanana: The Open University. (In Hebrew).

46.  Ronen-Fuhrmann, T., & Kali, Y. (in press, February, 2009). Characterizing and instructing design knowledge in the context of educational technology design. Proceedings of the 4th Chais conference for the study of educational technologies, 2009. Raanana: The Open University. (In Hebrew).

47.  Hans, M., Kali, Y., & Yair, Y. (in press, February, 2009). Added value of integrating computerized and physical models for the development of learners’ spatial abilities with regards to the moon phases. Proceedings of the 4th Chais conference for the study of educational technologies, 2009. Raanana: The Open University. (In Hebrew).

48.  Shamir, T.I., & Kali, Y. (in press, February, 2009). Assimilation of an online instructional culture in schools. Proceedings of the 4th Chais conference for the study of educational technologies, 2009. Raanana: The Open University. (In Hebrew).