עוסקת בהוראת מדעי המחשב, פיתוח חומרי לימוד והכשרת מורים משנת 1982
מנהלת את "מחשבה" – מרכז המורים הארצי למדעי המחשב מאז הקמתו בשנת 2000
עורכת ראשית של "הבטים בהוראת מדעי המחשב"
זוכת פרס מופ"ת על תרומה ייחודית בהדרכה פדגוגית 2007
תחומי המחקר העיקריים:
הוראת מדעי המחשב, תהליכי למידה, קונסטרוקטיביזם
חשיבת מורים, התפתחות מקצועית של מורים, הכשרת מורים.
- B.Sc הפקולטה למדעי המחשב, הטכניון 1985
- M.Sc. הוראת הטכנולוגיה והמדעים, הטכניון. מנחה: פרופ' אורי לירון 1992
- Ph.D. הוראת הטכנולוגיה והמדעים, הטכניון. מנחה: פרופ' אורי לירון 2005
Lapidot, T. and Raijman, D. (2009). Promoting high school girls in computer science: a joint project of the national center for high school CS teachers and Google women engineers. Hebetim, June 2009, 3-9 (in Hebrew).
Lapidot, T. and Aharoni, D. (2008). On the Frontier of Computer Science: Israeli Summer Seminars. Inroads – the SIGCSE Bulletin 40(4), pp. 72-74.
Lapidot, T. (2007). Supporting the growth of CS leading teachers. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 39(3), p. 327.
Hazzan, O. and Lapidot, T. (2006). Social Issues of Computer Science in the "Methods of Teaching Computer Science in the High School" Course. Inroads – the SIGCSE Bulletin 38(2), pp. 72-75.
Lapidot, T. and Hazzan, O. (2005). Song Debugging: Merging Content and Pedagogy in Computer Science Education. Inroads – the SIGCSE Bulletin 37(4), pp. 79-83.
Lapidot, T. (2005). Teachers' Knowledge Construction as a Direct Result of Their Daily Work. ISCAR-2005, Seville, Spain, September 2005.
Hazzan, O. and Lapidot, T. (2004). The Practicum in Computer Science Education: Bridging Gaps between Theoretical Knowledge and Actual Performance. Inroads – the SIGCSE Bulletin 36(4). pp. 47-51
Hazzan, O. and Lapidot, T. (2004). Construction of a Professional Perception in the "Methods of Teaching Computer Science" Course. Inroads – the SIGCSE Bulletin 36(2). pp. 57-61.
Paz, T. and Lapidot, T. (2004). Emergence of Automated Assignment Conceptions in a Functional Programming Course. The 9th annual conference on innovations and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE04), Leeds, UK. Proceedings of the 9th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education 36(3), pp. 181-185
Lapidot, T. and Hazzan, O. (2003). Methods of Teaching Computer Science course for prospective teachers. Inroads – the SIGCSE Bulletin 35(4), pp. 29-34.
Lapidot, T. (2002). Machshava” – The Israeli National Center for High School Computer Science Teachers. Poster presented in the 7th annual conference on innovations and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE02), Arhus, Denmark. Proceedings of the 9th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education 36(3), p. 234
Levy, D. and Lapidot, T. (2002). Shared Terminology, Private Syntax: The Case of Recursive Descriptions. The 7th annual conference on innovations and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE02), Arhus, Denmark. Proceedings of the 9th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education 36(3), 89-93.
Hazzan, O., Levy, D. and Lapidot, T. (2002). Promoting high school girl students in computer science. Position paper, Samuel Neeman Institute and The Israeli national teachers’ center of computer science. (in Hebrew).
Aharoni, D., Kyngos, C., and Lapidot, T. (2001). Discussion Group DG10 — PCSE: Psychology of Computer Science Education. PME-25, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 2001.
Levy D., Lapidot T., and Paz T. (2001). ”’It’s just like the whole picture, but smaller’: Expressions of gradualism, self-similarity, and other pre-conceptions while classifying recursive phenomena”. Proceedings of the 13th Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG2001), Bornmouth, England.
Lapidot, T. (2000). The Influence of Teaching Computer Science on the Development of Teachers' Content Knowledge. Ayala, Tel Aviv, October 2000 (in Hebrew).
Levy D. and Lapidot T. (2000). “Recursively Speaking: Analyzing Students’ discourse of Recursive Phenomena”. Proceedings of the thirty-first SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education (SIGCSE 2000), Austin, Texas.
Lapidot T., Levy D. and Paz T. (2000). Teaching Functional Programming to High School Students. In Robson R. (ed.), Proceedings of the international conference on mathematics/science education and technology (M/SET 2000), San Diego, California.
Lapidot T., Levy D. and Paz T. (1999). Implementing Constructivist Ideas in a Functional Programming Course for Secondary School. In Felleisen M., Hanus M., & Thompson S. (eds). Proceedings of the Workshop on Functional and Declarative Programming in Education, Paris, France.
Lapidot, T. and Levy, D. (1993). From Programming to Computer Science: Opportunities and Pitfalls. EuroLogo, Athens, Greece, August 1993.
Lapidot, T. (1987). Object Oriented Programming (lecture and workshop). LME-4, Montreal, Canada
הוראת מדעי המחשב, תהליכי למידה
התפתחות מקצועית של מורים, הכשרת מורים