Orit hazzan - Presentations

ORIT HAZZAN – PRESENTATIONS

International invited talks/keynotes


April 2010	High school computer science teacher preparation: Key elements, structure and challenges, 5th Pan-Hellenic Conference in Didactics of Informatics (Computer Science Education), Department of Computer Science and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Athens, Greece (keynote)
March 2009	Schön's reflective practitioner perspective in CS/SE Education, Studio-Based Learning in Computing Education Workshop, A Workshop supported by the National Science Foundation, ACM SIGCSE 2009 Pre-Conference Activity, Chattanooga , Tennessee, USA (keynote)

September 2006		Enhancing diversity: The case of gender diversity in computing, Multimedia Applications in Education Conference, the University of Applied Sciences FH JOANNEUM, Graz, Austria. (keynote)
November 2005		Why Johnny can't test: A cognitive analysis of testing, IBM Verification Conference 2005, IBM Research Lab, Haifa, Israel.
November 2005		Culture and environment as determinants of women’s participation in computing, Special Event on Diversity in Science and Engineering, the Technical University in Vienna, Austria.

Invited talks and panel presentations in Israel

December 2009	Panelist – Employment Mobility in the Israeli Unstable Work Force, Mahut (A non-profit organization), Haifa Municipal Hall, Israel.
October 2007		Panelist – L³ 4 SE (Life Long Learning for Software Engineering), SwSTE’07 - The IEEE International Conference on Software - Science, Technology and Engineering, Herzeliya, Israel.
March 2007		Panelist – Women in computing, The 21^st Conference of the Israeli Association for Information Technologies in Education, Tel-Aviv.
July 2006		Gender diversity in science and technology as a means for the promotion of social goals, Gender and Technology Symposium, The Open University.
November 2005		Panelist – What should be done to the development of a comprehensive agenda for research which supports the promotion of the top fifth students? One-day seminar: Challenging gifted (20 top percentages) pupils in the Israeli educational system, The Initiative for Applied Education Research, a joint venture of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, The Ministry of Education and Yad Hanadiv (the Rothschild Foundation).
April 2003		Why don’t high school female students continue studying sciences in the high-level? – The case of computer science, Women in Science Conference, The center of science education, Bet-Berl College.
February 2002		Panelist - E-Learning: The vision, the reality and the gap between them. The first national conference of IUCEL - Inter University Center for E-Learning, Technion, Haifa.
November 2001		Panelist - Human factors in software engineering and their influence on software quality. The Sixth National Conference on the Israel Society for Quality, Tel-Aviv.
September 2001		In how many ways a problem can be presented? The Second Computer Science Teachers Conference -- Professor Gideon Zwas Memorial, The School of Education, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv.
July 1999		Symposium - Challenges in the academic teaching with the Internet. The 16^th Annual Conference for Computers in Education – Technology with Culture towards the Year 2000, Tel-Aviv.

International research seminars/colloquia

March 2008		Human aspects of agile software engineering: Cognitive and social analysis, Google, Mountain View, CA, USA.
March 2008		Human aspects of agile software engineering: Cognitive and social analysis, IEEE Computer Society - Vancouver Chapter & Agile Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
March 2006	Enhancing diversity: The case of computing, School of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
March 2006	Enhancing diversity: The case of gender diversity in computing, The Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering and Information Technology, UMBC - University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA.
February 2006	Enhancing diversity: The case of gender diversity in computing, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California - Berkley, Berkley, CA, USA.
February 2006	Human aspects of software engineering – social and cognitive perspective, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California - Berkley, Berkley, CA, USA.
March 2005	Teaching and learning abstraction via reflection processes: Application to software engineering, School of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
February 2003	Extreme Programming: A cognitive and social analysis, Special ISRI (Institute for Software Research International) Seminar, School of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
February 2003	Is mathematics education research useful for other educational research fields? – The case of computer science education research, the Cognition and Development Colloquium Series, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
February 2002	Cognitive and social aspects in software engineering education , Special ISRI (Institute for Software Research International) Seminar, School of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Colloquia in Israel

January 2006	Enhancing Diversity in Educational Systems: The Case of Culture and Environment as Determinants of Equal Gender Participation in Computing, School of Education, Science Education Department, Tel-Aviv University.
May 2005	Cognitive and social analysis of software development methods, School of Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University.
May 2005	A game theory perspective of software development methods, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Natania College, Natania.
March 2005	Human aspects of software engineering, The Department of Information Systems Management, Haifa University.
March 2005	The role of the system analyst in agile software development environments, The System Analyst Organization, People and Computers – the Israel’s Information Technology leading publisher, events producer and users club organizer in the IT market.
November 2003	Application of cognitive and social theories to the analysis of software development methods: The case of Extreme Programming, The Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, The Technion.

International Workshops/Tutorials

May 2010	(to be presented) Tutorial - Coaching agile software projects, ICSE 2010, Cape Town, South Africa (with Yael Dubinsky)
October 2009	Workshop - Human aspects of software engineering, OOPSLA 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA (with Yael Dubinsky)
August 2009	Tutorial - Playtesting in the game industry, Agile 2009 Conference, Chicago, USA (with Ron Carmel)

August 2008		Refactoring of cultural smells – Tutorial, Agile 2008 Conference, Toronto, Canada (with Yael Dubinsky)
June 2008		Agility in Education: Why and How, The International Conference on Agile Processes and eXtreme Programming in Software Engineering - XP2008, Limerick, Ireland. (with Yael Dubinsky)
May 2008		ICSE08 Workshop: HCASE 2008: Human and cooperative aspects of software engineering, Leipzig, Germany. (with Li-Te Cheng, Cleidson de Souza, Yvonne Dittrich, Michael John, Frank Maurer, Helen Sharp, Janice Singer, Susan Elliot Sim, Jonathan Sillito, Margaret-Anne Storey, Bjørnar Tessem, Gina Venolia)
May 2008		ICSE08 Workshop: The role of abstraction in software engineering, Leipzig, Germany. (with Jeff Kramer) Workshop URL: http://edu.technion.ac.il/Courses/cs_methods/AbstractionWorkshop/ROA2008/ICSE2008_CfP_ROA_Workshop.htm
August 2007		Achieving cooperation in agile software development environments by binding the individual and the team interests, Agile 2007 Conference, Washington DC, USA. (with Yael Dubinsky)
March 2007		Teaching Human Aspects of Software Engineering, SIGCSE 2007 - The 38th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Covington, Kentucky, USA
June 2006		Hands-on Teaching Agile Development, The 7th International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering, Oulu, Finland. (with Yael Dubinsky)
May 2006		ICSE06 Workshop: The Role of Abstraction in Software Engineering: Organizational, Managerial and Cognitive Perspectives, Shanghai, China. (with Jeff Kramer)
March 2006		Abstraction - is it teachable, SIGCSE 2006 - The 37th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, Texas, USA. (with Jeff Kramer)
July 2005		Hands-On Teaching Agile Programming Tutorial, Agile 2005 Conference, Denver, Colorado. (with Yael Dubinsky)
December 2003		Professional Development of Software Engineers: 3-day workshop that aims to expand the perspective of software engineering (mainly female) students regarding the various careers they may develop following graduation. Institute for Software Research International, School of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Workshops/Tutorials in Israel

October 2006	Qualitative Research, The Israeli Air Force Battle Lab, IDF. (with Yael Dubinsky) A one-day workshop in which the participants experience the principles of a qualitative research.
September 2006	Learning Skills Workshop: Reflective Thinking, The Teaching and Research Authority, The College of Management.
July 2006	Learning Skills, The Teaching and Research Authority, The College of Management.
July 2005 June 2006	Guidance of Software Project Development in the High-School, The Israeli National Center for Computer Science Teachers. (with Orni Meerbaum-Salant) 3-day workshop for high school computer science teachers that aims at developing with the participants a framework for guiding high school pupils in software project development.
February - April 2005	Object Oriented Concepts for High-Scholl Computer Science Teachers, The workshop is facilitated in high-schools or in the framework of The Israeli National Center for Computer Science Teachers. A series of meetings that aim at introducing high school computer science teachers to the concepts underlying the object-oriented software development paradigm. Example of a workshop

Presentations to high-school teachers


July 2009	(Workshop and talk) An Agile Approach for Project-Based Learning, Ha'hamama School – Society and education, Act and a target, Involvement and values, Achievement and maturity, Or-Yehuda.
June 2009	(Workshop and talk) Software Engineering: An Agile Approach, Summer Workshop for Computer Science Teachers – the Front Research in Computer Science, The Israeli National Center for Computer Science Teachers.
November 2007	Diversity as a Mean for the Promotion Social Targets, The Center for the Promotion of Excellence, Ma’alot-Tarshicha Municipality.
July 2007	Abstraction: Cognitive and Pedagogical Aspects, Summer Workshop for Computer Science Teachers – the front research in Computer Science, The Israeli National Center for Computer Science Teachers and The Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Foundation Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science (C.R.I.).
December 2006	Object Oriented Concepts without Programming for High-Scholl Computer Science, Computer Science Teachers Leadership workshop, The Israeli National Center for Computer Science Teachers.
July 2005	The expansion of the shrinking pipeline: Broadening participation in Computer Science: The case of the Israeli AP Computer Science classes, The CS4HS (Computer Science for High school) Workshop, School of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Presentations to high-school pupils

February 2010	Panel moderator: Women in computer science in the academia and industry, An explosion day of computer science for junior high school female pupils, Google & The National Center of Computer Science Teachers, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
October-December 2009	Software management, 8-meeting workshop for 7th-9th students, Meitar school, Kibbutz Beit Oren, Israel.
April 2006	Agile software development, The Computer Science Academia - Industry Project, Davidson Institute of Science Education, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

Contributed talks

International Conferences

July 1992	Learning Mathematics via ISETL programming, 5 hour workshop. Sixth International Conference on Logo and Mathematics Education, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (with Uri Leron)
August 1993	Students' conceptions and misconceptions of group isomorphism. The Summer Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (with Uri Leron and Rina Zazkis)
July 1994	A students' belief about the solutions of the equation x=x^{-1 in a group. The 18th international conference for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Lisbon, Portugal.}
July 1994	Students' constructions of group isomorphism. The 18th international conference for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Lisbon, Portugal. (with Uri Leron and Rina Zazkis)
May 1995	How undergraduate students reduce abstraction level during Abstract Algebra course? The Joint Conference of the AMS and the IMU, Jerusalem, Israel.
May 1995	Students' use and misuse of mathematical theorems: The case of Lagrange's theorem. The Joint Conference of the AMS and the IMU, Jerusalem, Israel. (with Uri Leron)
July 1995	The world according to Johnny: Towards a theory of coping in mathematics education. CIEAEM 47 (International Commission for the Study and Improvement of Mathematics Education), Berlin, Germany. (with Uri Leron)
December 1995	Proving: Relationships to construction, visualization and language. The Conference of Justifying and Proving in School Mathematics, London, England. (with Paul Goldenberg)
January 1996	Making sense of abstract algebra: The student's view. The American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Joint Meeting, Orlando, Florida, USA. (with Uri Leron)
July 1997	Constructing knowledge by constructing examples for mathematical concepts. The 21^st International Conference for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Lahti, Finland. (with Rina Zazkis)
July 1997	An expression of the idea of successive refinement in Dynamic Geometry environments. The 21^st International Conference for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Lahti, Finland. (with Paul Goldenberg)
October 1997	Computers and applied constructivism. IFIP WG 3.1. Working Conference - Secondary School Mathematics in the World of Communication Technologies: Learning, Teaching and the Curriculum, Grenoble, France. (with Uri Leron)
June 1998	Meta-Freedom in Hypertext: The freedom to limit your own freedom. ED-MEDIA/TELECOM 98 – World conferences on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia and on Educational Telecommunications, Freiburg, Germany. (with Uri Leron)
March 1999	Information Technologies and Higher Education – A look around the world. CAL99 – Virtuality in Education – What is the future educational contexts?, London, England.
June 1999	Prospective teachers’ attitudes towards integrating information technologies in their future teaching. The Third International Conference on Teacher Education – Almost 2000: Crises and Challenges in Teacher Education, Beit-Berl College, Israel.
July 1999	Attitudes of prospective high school mathematics teachers towards integrating information technologies in their future teaching. 23^rd Annual Meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME 23), Haifa, Israel.
August 1999	Aspects of a university-course website. 8^th International Conference of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) International ’99, Munich, Germany. (Accepted but I didn’t attend due to unexpected personal circumstances)
October 1999	Information technologies and objects to learn with. Euro-Med Conference Tele99 on Technology in Learning Environments - The Learning Citizen, The Open University of Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
February 2000	Attitudes of prospective high school mathematics teachers towards the integration of information technologies in their future teaching. SITE 2000 - Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference, San Diego, California.
February 2000	Application of computer science ideas to the presentation of mathematical proofs. M/SET Conference - International Conference on Mathematics/Science Education and Technology, San Diego, California.
August 2000	Learning as surfing in mental space, SSGRR 2000 – International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science, and Education on the Internet, L'Aquila, (near Rome), Italy. (with Uri Leron)
February 2001	Teaching the human aspect of software engineering - A case study, SIGCSE 2001 - The 32nd Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Charlotte, NC, USA.
April 2001	The application of reflective practitioner perspective to software engineering, 13th Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group, Bournemouth, England.
June 2001	Learning Linear Algebra with computer algebra systems: A constructivist perspective, 9^th International Linear Algebra Society, Haifa, Israel.
February 2002	Women, mathematics and computer science, SIGCSE 2002 - The 33nd Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Covington, Northern Kentucky - The Southern Side of Cincinnati, USA. (panel presentation with Peter H. Henderson, Paul De Palma, Vicki L. Almstrum and Kim Potter Kihlstrom)
February 2002	The software studio in software engineering education, The 15th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T 2002), Covington, Northern Kentucky - The Southern Side of Cincinnati, USA. (panel presentation with Sarah Kuhm, James E. Tomayko and Bruce Corson)
June 2002	Reducing abstraction level when learning computability theory concepts, The seventh Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2002), Aarhus, Denmark.
June 2002	Import and export to/from computing science education: The case of mathematics education research, The seventh Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2002), Aarhus, Denmark. (panel presentation with Vicki L. Almstrum, David Ginat and Tom Morley)
August 2002	Agile-training of XP-supervising group: A case study of a project-based course, position paper presented at the Workshop on Empirical Evaluation of Agile Processes (EEAP 2002), held in conjunction with the XP/Agile Universe 2002 conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (with Yael Dubinsky)
November 2002	Improvement of software quality: Introducing eXtreme Programming into a project-based course, The Fourteenth International Conference of the Israeli Society for Quality, Jerusalem, Israel. (withYael Dubinsky)
February 2003	Transfer to/from computing science education: The Case of science education research, SIGCSE 2003 - The 34th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Reno, Nevada, USA. (with Vicki L. Almstrum, David Ginat and John M. Clement)
February 2003	International perspective of women and computer science, SIGCSE 2003 - The 34th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Reno, Nevada, USA. (moderator, panel presentation with Elizabeth S. Adams - USA, Hrafn Loftsson - Iceland and Alison Young - New Zealand)
March 2003	Teaching a software development methodology: The case of eXtreme Programming, 16^th International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, Madrid, Spain. (with Yael Dubinsky)
May 2003	Bridging cognitive and social chasms in software development using Extreme Programming, the Fourth International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering, Genova, Italy. (with Yael Dubinsky)
May 2003	Using Metaphors in eXtreme Programming Projects, The first Extreme Educational Symposium - A Special Forum for Teachers in Extreme Programming and Agile Processes, part of the Fourth International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering, , Genova, Italy. (with Yael Dubinsky)
June 2003	Computer Science students’ conception of the relationship between reward (grade) and cooperation, The Eighth Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2003), Thessaloniki, Greece.
June 2003	Cognitive and social aspects of Software Engineering: A course framework, The Eighth Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2003), Thessaloniki, Greece.
June 2003	Challenges in teaching capstone courses, The Eighth Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2003), Thessaloniki, Greece. (panel presentation with Elizabeth S. Adams, Mats Daniels, Kathy Lynch, Annegret Goold and Ian Newman)
August 2003	The Reflective Practitioner Perspective in eXtreme Programming, XP Agile Universe 2003, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. (with Jim Tomayko)
November 2003	eXtreme Programming as a Framework for Student-Project Coaching in Computer Science Capstone Courses, IEEE International Conference on Software – Science, Technology & Engineering, Herzelia, Israel. (with Yael Dubinsky)
March 2004	Reflection processes in the teaching and learning of human aspects of software engineering, The 17th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T 2004), Norfolk, Virginia, USA. (with James E. Tomayko)
March 2004	Teaching software development methods: The case of Extreme Programming, SIGCSE 2004 - The 35th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. (moderator, panel presentation with Joe Bergin, James Caristi, Yael Dubinsky and Laurie Williams)
June 2004	Human aspects of Software Engineering: The case of Extreme Programming, Fifth International Conference on Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. (with Jim Tomayko)
June 2004	Roles in agile software development teams, Fifth International Conference on Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. (with Yael Dubinsky)
June 2004	Junior high school students’ perception of object oriented concepts, the Eighth Workshop on Pedagogies and Tools for the Teaching and Learning of Object Oriented Concepts, 18th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Oslo, Norway. (with Mariana Teif)
November 2004	Cultural issues in the Israeli software industry, The Fifteenth International Conference of the Israeli Society for Quality, Jerusalem, Israel. (withYael Dubinsky)
November 2004	Using a roles scheme to derive software project metrics, QUantitative TEchniques for SoftWare Agile Processes workshop, SIGSOFT 2004, Newport Beach, CA, USA (withYael Dubinsky)
December 2004	Shaping of a teaching framework for software development methods at higher education, The International Workshop on Learning and Assessment in Science, Engineering & Management in Higher Education, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (poster presentation with Yael Dubinsky)
February 2005	Using history of computing to address problems and opportunities in computer science education, SIGCSE 2005 - The 36th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, St. Louise, Missouri, USA. (moderator, panel presentation with John Impagliazzo, Raymond Lister and Shimon Schocken)
February 2005	Challenges to computer science education research, SIGCSE 2005 - The 36th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, St. Louise, Missouri, USA. (moderator, panel presentation with Vicki L. Almstrum, Mark Guzdial and Marian Petre)
February 2005	Factors influencing the Shrinking Pipeline in high schools: A sector-based analysis of the Israeli high school System, SIGCSE 2005 - The 36th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, St. Louise, Missouri, USA. (with Larisa Eidelman)
May 2005	Teaching human aspects of Software Engineering, the Educational Track of the 27^th International Conference on Software Engineering, St. Louise, Missouri, USA. (with Jim Tomayko)
May 2005	The role of a project-based capstone course, the Educational Track of the 27^th International Conference on Software Engineering, St. Louise, Missouri, USA. (with Yael Dubinsky)
August 2005	Perspectives from the USA, Israel and the Arab (Israeli) community: The role of culture and environment in Computer Science education, Crossing Cultures, Changing Lives: Integrating Research on Girls’ Choices of IT Careers, Oxford, England. (roundtable discussion together with Carol Frieze)
March 2006	Qualitative research in Computer Science education, SIGCSE 2006 - The 37th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, Texas, USA (with Yael Dubinsky, Larisa Eidelman, Victoria Sakhnini, Mariana Teif(
March 2006	Culture and environment as determinants of women’s participation in computing: Revealing the “Women-CS Fit”, SIGCSE 2006 - The 37th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, Texas, USA (with Carol Frieze, Lenore Blum and M. Bernardine Dias(
May 2006	System analysis and design in a large-scale software project: The case of transition to agile development, The 8th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Paphos, Cyprus. (with Yael Dubinsky, David Talby and Arie Keren
May 2006	(poster presentation) A cognitive perspective on software development methods: The case of extreme programming, WISER 2006 - 2nd International Workshop on Interdisciplinary Software Engineering Research, ICSE (International Conference of Software Engineering), Shanghai, China. (with Yael Dubinsky)
May 2006	Reflections on Teaching Abstraction, ROA Workshop - The Role of Abstraction in Software Engineering workshop, ICSE (International Conference of Software Engineering), Shanghai, China.
May 2006	Can diversity in global software development be enhanced by agile software development?, The Global Software Development for the Practitioner workshop, ICSE (International Conference of Software Engineering), Shanghai, China. (with Yael Dubinsky)
May 2006	(poster presentation) Teaching framework for software development methods, ICSE Educator's Track, ICSE (International Conference of Software Engineering), Shanghai, China. (with Yael Dubinsky)
June 2006	Reductive thinking in undergraduate CS courses, ITiCSE - The Eleventh Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, University of Bologna, Italy. (with Michal Armoni and Judith Gal-Ezer)
July 2006	Discovery session moderator: Enhancing diversity in agile software development environments, Agile 2006 conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
July 2006	Reflections on reflection in agile software development, The Agile 2005 Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. (with David Talby, Yael Dubinsky and Arie Keren).
March 2007	Special Session: Computational thinking, SIGCSE 2007 - The 38th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Covington, Kentucky, USA. (with Peter B. Henderson – Moderator, Tom Cortina and Jeannette M. Wing).
March 2007	Eccles' Model of Achievement-Related Choices: The case of Computer Science studies in Israeli high schools, The 38th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Covington, Kentucky, USA. (with Larisa Eidelman)
March 2007	Birds of a Feather: New Thinking Needed!: Opening the way for alternatives to current gender and CS research approaches, The 38th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Covington, Kentucky, USA. (with Carol Frieze)
June 2007	Process of schools websites and ICT learning environments, The Fifth International Conference on Teacher Education – Teacher education is at a crossroads, Academic College of Education, Beer Sheva and The MOFET Institute, Tel-Aviv. (with Shmuel Arnon)
August 2007	How does readiness for agile software development relate to team climate and individual personality attributes?, Agile 2007 Research-in-progress Workshop, Agile 2007 Conference, Washington DC, USA. (with Tali Seger and Ronen Bar-Nahor)
August 2007	Climate in agile software development teams: The case of quality climate and teamwork climate, Agile 2007 Research-in-progress Workshop, Agile 2007 Conference, Washington DC, USA. (with with Tali Seger and Gil Luria)
October 2007	(to be presented) The software engineering timeline: A time management perspective, The IEEE International Conference on Software – Science, Technology & Engineering, Herzelia, Israel. (with Yael Dubinsky)

March 2008 A model for high school Computer Science Education: The four key elements that make it!, The 39th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Portland, Oregon, USA. (with Judith Gal-Ezer and Lenore Blum)

June 2008 Tutoring model for promoting teaching skills of Computer Science prospective teachers, The 13th Annual Conference on
Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education – ITiCSE 2008, Madrid, Spain. (with Noa Ragonis)

July 2008 Disciplinary-pedagogical teacher preparation for pre-service Computer Science teachers: rational and implementation, Informatics in Secondary Schools - Evolution and Perspective - ISSEP 2008. (with Noa Ragonis)

August 2008 Questions we ask about software practitioners' adaptation of agile software development, 2008 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California. (with Tali Seger)

August 2008 (poster to be presented) Bridges between culture and technology through the lens of software engineering, 2008 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California. (with Tali Seger)

August 2008 Agile orientation and psychological needs, self-efficacy, and perceived support: A two job-level comparison, the Research Stage, Agile 2008, Toronto, Canada. (with Tali Seger and Ronen Bar-Nahor).

November 2008 Organizational culture and quality: The case of educational organizations, the 17th International Conference of the Israel Society for Quality, Jerusalem, Israel. (with Liora Nutov)

March 2009 Preparation of high school computer science teachers: The Israeli perspective, The 40^th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Chattanooga, TN, USA (special session with Judith Gal-Ezer and Noa Ragonis)

May 2009 Knowledge management in practice: The case of agile software
development, CHASE (Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering) 2009 workshop, International Conference of Software Engineering (ICSE), Vancouver, Canada (poster presentation with with Meira Levy)

May 2009 Characterizing example embedment as a software activity, SUITE09 (Search-Driven Development - Users, Infrastructure, Tools and Evaluation) workshop, International Conference of Software Engineering (ICSE), Vancouver, Canada (with Ohad Barzilay and Amiram Yehudai)

July 2009 Evaluation of a software engineering course by reflection, Proceedings of Proceedings of the Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Conference – ITiCSE 2009, Paris, France (with Ohad Barzilay and Amiram Yehudai)

August 2009 Enhancing diversity in agile software development environments, Agile 2009, Chicago, USA (panel moderator, panelists: Yael Dubinsky, Amr Elssamadisy, David Hussman, Linda Rising)

August 2009 Agile development using example embedding, Agile 2009, Chicago, USA (PhD Symposium presentation by Ohad Barzilay, a co-supervised student with Amiram Yehudai)

October 2009 Reflection in software engineering education, The Educators’ and Trainers’ Symposium, OOPSLA 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA (with Yael Dubinsky)

October 2009 Using metaphors with software teams, The Educators’ and Trainers’ Symposium, OOPSLA 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA (with Yael Dubinsky)

January 2010 A reflective practitioner's perspective on computer science teacher preparation, The 4^th International Conference on Informatics in Secondary Schools: Evolution and Perspective (ISSEP), Zürich, Switzerland (with Noa Ragonis)

March 2010 A survey of Computer Science teacher preparation programs in Israel tells us: Computer Science deserves a designated high school teacher preparation!, SIGCSE 2010 - The 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Milwaukee, WI, USA (with Noa Ragonis and Judith Gal-Ezer)

March 2010 Rediscovering the passion, beauty, joy, and awe: Making computing fun again, part 3, SIGCSE 2010 - The 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Milwaukee, WI, USA (panel presentation with Daniel D. Garcia, Gail Chapman, Maggie Johnson and Leigh Ann Sudol)

May 2010 (to be presented) A HOT - Human, Organizational and Technological - framework for a Software Engineering course, ICSE 2010, Cape Town, South Africa (with Yael Dubinsky)

May 2010 (to be presented) Ad-hoc leadership in agile software development environments, CHASE (Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering) 2010 workshop, ICSE 2010, Cape Town, South Africa (with Yael Dubinsky)

June 2010 (to be presented) Agility in a large-scale system engineering project: A case-study of an advanced communication system project, SwSTE’10 - The IEEE International Conference on Software - Science, Technology and Engineering, Herzlia, Israel (with Amir Shatil and Yael Dubinsky)

Local Conferences

February 1995	Can we characterize good question in mathematics education? The 11th scientific conference of AYALA - The Israeli Conference for Educational Research, Jerusalem, Israel.
June 1995	The world according to the student. The Second Meeting of the Israeli Organization of Mathematics Education, Jerusalem, Israel. (with Uri Leron)
June 1997	The concept of function in Dynamic Geometry Environment. The Forth Annual Meeting of the Israeli Organization of Mathematics Education, Haifa, Israel.
May 1998	Information Technologies and higher education: A look around the world. The Second Annual Meeting of Project ITTT – Information Technologies in Technion Teaching, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
March 1999	Features of course web sites around the world. The Third Annual Meeting of Project ITTT – Information Technologies in Technion Teaching, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
May 1999	Prospective mathematics teachers’ conception about learning and teaching with information technologies. The Annual Conference of Oranim, Oranim College, Israel.
May 2000	How undergraduate students reduce abstraction level when learning abstract</DIV> algebra concepts</DIV>, The Israeli Mathematical Union (IMU) Meeting, Haifa, Israel.
May 2000	Application of computer science ideas to the presentation of mathematical proofs. The Annual Conference of Oranim, Oranim College, Israel.
May 2000	University courses' websites around the world. </DIV>The Third Conference of "Surfing in the Internet" -- The future college and distance learning, MOFET Institute (R&D institute for training colleges' teachers), Tel-Aviv, Israel.
February 2001	Students reflection on constructing websites, Opening Gates in Teacher Education (a virtual conference), MOFET Institute (R&D institute for training colleges' teachers), Tel-Aviv, Israel.
December 2001	Student conception of objects and the relationships among them during the design of data bases, The Second Annual Conference of Computer Science and Information Technologies Teachers, Shfaim, Israel. (with Anat Aharoni)
December 2001	Software engineering ‘Handasaim’ understanding of the concept of array, The Second Annual Conference of Computer Science and Information Technologies Teachers, Shfaim, Israel. (with Bruria Peled)
December 2001	Girls and boys in learning computing science, The Second Annual Conference of Computer Science and Information Technologies Teachers, Shfaim, Israel. (Round table with Dalit Levy and Tani Lapidot)
December 2002	Using Java applets in the teaching of algorithms in computer science, The Third Annual Conference of Computer Science and Information Technologies Teachers, Tel-Aviv, Israel. (with Irit Hadar)
December 2002	Introduction of a software development methodology into the Israeli high-school curriculum in computer science: The case of Extreme Programming, The Third Annual Conference of Computer Science and Information Technologies Teachers, Tel-Aviv, Israel. (with Yael Dubinsky)
December 2002	Why female high-school students do not continue to the high-level of computer science studies? The Annual Moshinski Conference of Ort, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
February 2003	Information and Communication technologies in teaching software development methodologies, The Second National Conference of IUCEL - Inter University Center for E-Learning, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. (with Yael Dubinsky)
February 2003 (poster presentation)	E-learning processes in the training of prospective science and technology teachers towards on-line teaching, The Second National Conference of IUCEL - Inter University Center for E-Learning, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. (with Meira Levi)
May 2003	eXtreme Programming –Software projects management methodology, The Seventh Annual Conference of the Project Management Institute - Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel. (withYael Dubinsky)
March 2004	eXtreme Programming – A software projects management methodology, The Annual Conference of ILA (The Israeli Society for Information Technologies), Tel-Aviv, Israel. (withYael Dubinsky)
June 2004	Roles in software project teams, The Annual Israeli Software Conference -- Engineering and Management (ICSEM04), The Academic College of Natanya, Israel. (withYael Dubinsky)
October 2004	Factors influencing choice and persistence in computer science studies by Israeli high-school females, AYALA2004 - The Israeli Associaltion for Educational Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer- Sheva, Israel. (with Larisa Edelman)
December 2004	Learning 5-units (AP) Computer Science: Sector and gender-based analysis of the Israeli high school, The Fifth Annual Conference of Computer Science and Information Technologies Teachers, Haifa, Israel.(with Larisa Eidelman)
December 2004	Supervising software project development in the high-school, The Fifth Annual Conference of Computer Science and Information Technologies Teachers, Haifa, Israel. (with Orni Merbaum-Salant)
January 2005	The story tellers' voice in the process of the narrative interpretation (position paper), Narratives and their Explorations: Creation, Interpretation and Criticism (3-day Working Workshop), Ohalo, Israel.
March 2005	On the evaluation process of school websites and computational learning environments, The Twentieth Conference of MOACH (MOACH =Computers is Education), Rel-Aviv, Israel. (with Shmuel Arnon)
April 2005	The rationality debate: Applications to mathematics education, Workshop: Are Human Beings Rational? Applications of Cognitive Psychology to Mathematics and Science Education, Technion, Haifa, Israel (with Uri Leron)
June 2005	Test-driven software development: Applications to academia and industry, The Annual Israeli Software Conference -- Engineering and Management (ICSEM05), The Academic College of Natanya, Israel. (withYael Dubinsky)
December 2005	Student understanding of computer science soft ideas: The case of programming paradigms, The Sixth Annual Conference of the Israeli Computer Science and Information Technologies Teachers, Achva College, Israel. (with Yulia Stolin)
December 2005	Reductive thinking in computer science, The Sixth Annual Conference of the Israeli Computer Science and Information Technologies Teachers, Achva College, Israel. (with Michal Armoni)
December 2005	Reductive thinking in computer science, The Sixth Annual Conference of the Israeli Computer Science and Information Technologies Teachers, Achva College, Israel. (with Michal Armoni)
December 2005	How to attract more high school pupils to computer science studies? The Sixth Annual Conference of the Israeli Computer Science and Information Technologies Teachers, Achva College, Israel. (with Larisa Eidelman)
February 2006	The science Olympiads and gender, Whose Science? – Women, Gender and the Politics of Science, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv. (with Ornit Sagi)
February 2006	Software project management and the voice of women, Whose Science? – Women, Gender and the Politics of Science, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv. (with Yael Dubinsky)
March 2006	Municipal educational learning community , The learning Person in the Technological Era Conference, Chais Research Center for the Integration of Technology in Education, The Open University of Israel (with Shmuel Arnon)
May 2006	Enhancing Diversity: Why and How?, Meeting of the Technion Female Faculty Members, The Technion.
June 2006	Teaching and learning qualitative research methods, The 2^nd Israeli Interdisciplinary Conference on Qualitative Research Methods, The Israeli Center for Qualitative Research Methods, Tel Aviv.
October 2006	*Regional Knowledge-Building ICT Educational Community, The 4^th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education,* AFEKA Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering, Tel-Aviv. (with Shmuel Arnon)
December 2006	Supervision software development projects in the Computer Science high school class, The Seventh Annual Conference of the Israeli Computer Science and Information Technologies Teachers, Beit Berl College, Israel. (with Orni Meerbaum-Salant)
May 2007	Agile software projects management, The 11th Annual Conference of the Project Management Institute - Israel, Airport City, Israel. (with Yael Dubinsky)

November 2007 Quality climate in software development teams, The 9th National conference of the Israeli Society for Quality, Tel Aviv, Israel. (with Tali Seger and Gil Luria)

December 2008 Development and evaluation of a pedagogical-disciplinary tutoring model for promoting teaching skills of Computer Science prospective teachers, The Ninth Annual Conference of Computer Science and Information Technologies Teachers, Haifa. (with Noa Ragonis)

April 2009 IDE support for example embedding, The 2009 IBM Leadership Seminar on Programming Languages and Development Environments, IBM's Haifa Research Lab, Haifa. (with Ohad Barzilay and Amiram Yehudai)

November 2009 Empirical research in software engineering, Industry – Academia: The Collaboration with the Industry in the Design of the Future Engineer, Ort Braude, Karmiel. (with Ohad Barzilay and Amiram Yehudai)

November 2009 Organizational school vision as a mediator between middle-level leadership roles and quality results, The 10th National conference of the Israeli Society for Quality, Tel Aviv. (with Liora Nutov)

February 2010 Teaching and learning qualitative research methods, The 4^th Israeli Interdisciplinary Conference on Qualitative Research Methods, The Israeli Center for Qualitative Research Methods, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva.

February 2010 Qualitative research on Israeli high school, The 4^th Israeli Interdisciplinary Conference on Qualitative Research Methods, The Israeli Center for Qualitative Research Methods, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva. (with Zvi Liraz, Liora Nutov, Dafna Zelig)

Talks in Israeli organizations

December 2002	eXtreme Programming: A cognitive and social analysis, Refael - the authority for development of combat technology.
December 2002 August 2003 (workshop)	eXtreme Programming in small projects, The R&D Center, The Internet Technologies Unit, Ort - Network of science & technology-oriented high-schools and colleges.
May 2003 June 2003	eXtreme Programming: The individual and the organizational perspectives, Mercury Interactive Corporation (of business technology optimization (BTO) software solutions). (with Yael Dubinsky)
June 2003	eXtreme Programming: Academic and industrial perspectives, IBM Israel Research Seminars. (with Yael Dubinsky)
June 2003	eXtreme Programming: An agile software development methodology, Philips, Haifa. (with Yael Dubinsky)
September 2003, January 2004, August 2004 and July 2005 (workshop)	An agile approach towards software development: The case of eXtreme Programming, The Israeli Air force. (with Yael Dubinsky)
June 2004	Teaching eXtreme Programming, Ort Braude College, Karmiel. (with Yael Dubinsky)
July 2005	Extreme Programming: A software development perspective in general and from the system analysts' perspective in particular, The System Analysts' Club - People and computers Organization.
September 2005	Agile software development in the large, ILTAM - User's Association of Advanced Technologies for Design and Manufacturing in the Electronics Industry.
September 2005	Extreme Programming from the perspective of system analysis, Amodocs.
March 2006	Introducing and Managing Agile Software Development Projects, Agile Israel Forum.
April 2006	Agile Software Development Processes, SEPG (software and Engineering Process Group), Elbit Systems. (with Yael Dubinsky)
June 2006	Game Theory and the Management of Software Development Processes, The Project Manager Club - People and computers Organization.
June 2006	Agile Software Development, The Managerial Data Analysis Unit, the Technion.
July 2007	On the relationship between Game Theory and Software Engineering, Israeli Perl Mongers Forum.
October 2006 (workshop)	Agile Software Development: The Case of Extreme Programming, The Israeli Air Force Battle Lab, IDF. (with Yael Dubinsky)
January 2007, April 2007	Agile Software Development: Values and Practices, Amodocs.
February 2008	Agile Software Engineering: Values and Practices, Orca Interactive.
December 2008	Agile Software Management: Transparency, commitment, trust, security, learning, Meeting on The Software Crisis, The C3 club of CTOs, The People Organization.
April 2009	Agile software engineering: Applications to system engineering, Continuing Studies Unit of the Technion, Tel Aviv.
July 2009	Human aspects of agile software engineering, Israeli Scrum User Group 2009, Tel Aviv.
July 2009	Agile software engineering, Continuing Studies Unit of the Technion, Haifa.
August 2009	Playtesting, Kodak, Petach-Tikva. (with Ron Carmel)
November 2009	Introduction to agile software engineering, Netwise, Be'erot-Yitschak.
January 2010	Diversity as a means for the promotion of social goals, Director Course, The Center for Women Business Training and Bar-Ilan University.
January 2010	Coaching the assimilation of agile software development = Leading a conceptual change, Iltam – The Israeli Users’ Association of Advanced Technologies for Design and Manufacturing in the Electronics Industry, Herzeliya.