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Updated: 2001
1985 |
Ph.D., Columbia University (TC - Ed. Psych: Measurement) |
1972 |
M.A., Columbia-Hofstra U. (English-American Literature) |
1970 |
B.A., U. of Pennsylvania (English-American Literature) |
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1986 |
English Grammar for Experts, U. Lancaster, UK [British Council] |
1980 |
TESOL International Testing Workshop, Columbia University |
1975-1976 |
Discourse Analysis, Hebrew University |
2000 - |
The Open University of Israel, Tel-Aviv, English Unit, Coordinator of Reading Comprehension course for students of Humanities |
2000- |
Lauder School of Government (IDC Herzliya)
Designer and Developer of 3-yr. program, "Communication Skills in English"
Senior staff, Coordinator, "Communications Skills in English" |
1998- |
Open U.- Ministry of Education Literature course for Teachers |
1997- |
Materials developer, Open U. Humanities courses |
1994- |
IDC Herzliya, Coordinator of EFL for Law and Business students (materials design and course development) |
1992-1995 |
Ramot Mishpat, Coordinator of EFL for Law students |
1991 |
Open University, Co-director, EFL Reading Comprehension project |
1989-1991 |
Open University, on leave from Hebrew University |
1990-1991 |
Instructor, EFL Testing Retraining Program for Immigrants
Teacher, Seminar Levinsky, co-sponsored by Ministries of Education and Absorption |
1988 |
Guest lecturer, EFL Testing, ICU, Tokyo, Japan
Guest lecturer, EFL Testing, FuDan University, Shanghai, China |
1985-1986 |
English teacher to Members of the Knesset |
1983-1996 |
NITE (National Institute of Testing) - English subtest of Israeli Psychometric Exams (AMIR):
Chief item writer
Supervisor of English items
Senior consultant and trainer of item writers |
1982-1987 |
Developed and coordinated English courses for Foreign Ministry |
1980-1981 |
TOEFL Item Writer, Educational Testing Services, Princeton, NJ |
1972-1991 |
Hebrew University Department of EFL
Senior Teacher
Exams coordinator, 1981-1987
Department chairperson, 1977-1980
H.U. Psychometric Exam English subtest, 1955-1982 |
1970-1972 |
Project CUE, New York State Humanities project for the development of an interdisciplinary curriculum, K through 12 |
1999
| The Pleasures of Literature in the EFL Classroom, Open University Course for the Ministry of Education |
1998 |
Reading English with Awareness, A-Level Reading Comprehension for Humanities Students |
1996 |
Reading English with Awareness, A-Level Reading Comprehension for Science Students |
2000 |
Communications Skills in English, Lauder School of Government, IDC-Herzliya |
1999 |
English for Students of Law and Business, IDC-Herzliya |
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2000
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UTELI Symposium on Effects of Technology on EFL Teaching
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1997 |
"Reading with Awareness: Metacognitive Training Across Disciplines," AAAL (American Applied Linguistics association) Conference, Colloquium, Orlando, Florida |
1996 |
"Reading with Awareness: A Distance Learning Reading Comprehension Course for Academic Purposes," Colloquium at AILA (International Applied Linguistics Association) Conference, with Professors William Grabe, Andrew Cohen, Elite Olshtain; Fredericka Stoller, Yael Bejarano; Helsinki, Finland |
1995 |
"What's New in Reading comprehension testing?" Keynote Address at UTELI (University Teachers of English Language in Israel) Annual Conference, Ben-Gurion University, [February] |
1994 |
"How Do I Know When I Don't Know?", TESOL '94; Long Beach, California [March] |
1993 |
"Developing a Battery of 7 Reading Comprehension Courses Based on Metacognitive Awareness," AILA Conference, Amsterdam [August] |
1992 |
"Developing a New Model of Reading Comprehension for Israeli Students," TESOL '92, Vancouver, BC [March] |
1991 |
"When an item CANNOT be classified..." ACROLT, Kiryat Anavim, [May] |
1990 |
"Parallel Tests - Truth or Myth?" AILA Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece [April] |
1990 |
"Evaluating the Class, Student and Test - on One page." TESOL '90, San Francisco [March] |
1989 |
"The Use of Prediction Items to Predict Success in EFL Reading," ACROLT, Kiryat Anavim [May] |
1989 |
"Everything You Wanted to Know about Tests," UTELI International Conference, Bar-Ilan University |
1987 |
"The 4 Questions One Should Ask about Testing," ETAI (English Teachers Association in Israel) International Conference [July] |
1987 |
"Can Yoni Read English? What the Tests Tell Us," TESOL '87, Miami Beach Florida [March] |
1985 |
"Bias across Languages in the Psychometric Examination," ACROLT, Kiryat Anavim, [May] |
1984 |
"Prediction in the Cognitive Process of Reading," ACROLT, Kiryat Anavim, [May] |
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