Updated: February 2010
- Personal
- Education
- Professional Experience
- Areas of Interest
- Awards and Scholarships
- Membership in Professional Societies
- Refereeing
- List of Publications
- Books
- Articles in Refereed Journals
- Chapters in Books
- Edited Book
- Book Reviews
- Invited Commentaries in Journals
- Proceedings
- Research Reports
- Open University Books
- Presentations and Lectures
- Hebrew
Personal
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E-mail: ruthbm@openu.ac.il
Born: 1946, Israel
Education
1971 | B.A., Statistics, Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
1973 | M.A., Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
1978 |
Ph.D., Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Dissertation: Aspects of Perception of Association between Events; Advisor: Prof. Amos Tversky |
Professional Experience
1968-1972 | Research and Teaching Assistant, Psychology Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
1972-1973 | Instructor, Behavioral Sciences Department, University of the Negev, Beer-Sheba |
1972-1977 | Instructor and Lecturer, Departments of Education, Psychology and Geography, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
1975-1976 | Research Associate, Israel Foreign Ministry; Strategic analysis prior to interim settlement in Sinai, 1975 |
1976-1980 | Project Manager, Development of curriculum of thinking under conditions of uncertainty for children (Junior High School age), School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
1977-1978 | Project Manager, Development of course in teaching probability and statistics, The Open University of Israel, Ramat Aviv |
1977-1980 | Research Associate, Center for Cognitive Studies, School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
1978-1980 | Methodological Advisor and Trainer, Israel Defense Forces |
1980-1981 | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Decision Research, Eugene, Oregon |
1981-1982 | Consultant, Decision Research, Eugene, Oregon |
1982-1992 | Advisor, Israeli Science Teaching Center, Center for Curriculum Research and Development, School of Education, Tel Aviv University |
1982-1996 | Senior Lecturer, The Open University of Israel |
1988-1989 | Visiting Scientist, Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA |
1995 - | Member, Scientific Council of the National Institute for Testing and Evaluation |
1996 | Associate Professor, Department of Education and Psychology, The Open University of Israel |
1996-1999 | Vice President for Academic Affairs, The Open University of Israel |
1999-2000 | Head of Research, The Center for Educational Technology in Distance Learning |
2000 - | Member, The Committee for Students with Learning Disabilities, The Planning and Budgeting Committee, The Council for Higher Education |
2001-2005 | Head of Education and Psychology Department, The Open University of Israel |
2003 - | Member, The Council for Higher Education |
2005-2006 | Sabbatical (a) in La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia - Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies; and (b) in Decision Research, Eugene, OR |
2009 | Sabbatical, Decision Research, Eugene, OR |
Areas of Interest
- Research on intuitive decision-making, probability judgment, information search and statistical references
- Research on deductive reasoning
- Curriculum development for children and adults in the areas of decision-making, statistics and probability, methodology
- Improvement of children's thinking skills through the development of appropriate curricula
- Adolescence risk taking behavior
- Research on learning technologies
Awards and Scholarships
1970-1974 | Various graduate school scholarships from the Hebrew University |
1980 | Lady Davis Post-Doctoral Fellowship |
1980 | Fulbright travel Fellowship |
Membership in Professional Societies
- The American Psychological Association
- The Psychonomic Society
- The Israeli Psychological Society
- The American Society for Judgment in Decision-Making
- The European Society for Decision-Making
- The Israeli Society of Cognitive Psychology
Referee for:
- Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
- Memory and Cognition
- The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
- Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology
- Journal of Research on Adolescence
- National Science Foundation
- Bi-National Foundation
List of Publications
Books
- Beyth-Marom, R., Introduction to statistics: Methods for description and analysis of data and inference from sample to population. Tel-Aviv: Am Oved, 413 pp., 1976 (Hebrew).
- Beyth-Marom, R. and Dekel, S., Thinking under uncertainty: A textbook for junior high school students. Jerusalem: The Ministry of Education, 271 pp., 1983 (Hebrew).
- Beyth-Marom, R. and Dekel, S., Thinking under uncertainty: A manual for teachers. Jerusalem: The Ministry of Education, 132 pp., 1983 (Hebrew).
- Beyth-Marom, R. and Dekel, S., An elementary approach to thinking under uncertainty. Translated and adapted from Hebrew by R. Beyth-Marom, B. Marom and S. Lichtenstein. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 154 pp., 1985.
Articles in Refereed Journals
- Fischhoff, B. and Beyth-Marom, R., "I knew it would happen": Remembered probabilities of once-future things. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 13 (1975), 1-16.
- Beyth-Marom, R. and Fischhoff, B., Direct measures of availability and judgments of category frequency. Bulletin Psychonomic Science, 9 (1977), 236-238.
- Beyth-Marom, R., How probable is probable? Numerical translation of verbal probability expressions. Journal of Forecasting, 1 (1983), 257-269.
- Beyth-Marom, R., Perception of correlation re-examined. Memory and Cognition, 10 (1982), 511-519.
- Beyth-Marom, R., Choosing an appropriate summary statistic. Teaching Statistics, 6 (1983), 70-74.
- Beyth-Marom, R. and Dekel, S., A curriculum to improve thinking under uncertainty. Instructional Science, 12 (1983), 67-82.
- Beyth-Marom, R., Being accurate but not necessarily Bayesian: Comments on Christensen-Szalanski and Beach. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 31 (1983), 255-257.
- Beyth-Marom, R. and Fischhoff, B., Diagnosticity and pseudo-diagnosticity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45 (1983), 1185-1195.
- Fischhoff, B. and Beyth-Marom, R., Hypothesis evaluation from a Bayesian perspective. Psychological Review, 90 (1983), 239-260.
Reprinted in J. Dowie and A. Elstein (Eds.), Professional judgment: A reader in clinical decision making (pp. 323-349), New York, Cambridge University Press, 1988. - Beyth-Marom, R., Novik, R. and Sloan, M., Enhancing children’s thinking skills: An instructional model of decision making under certainty. Instructional Science, 16 (1987), 215-231.
- Beyth-Marom, R. and Zakay, D., A commission of enquiry from a psychological perspective: The potential of learning from past experience. Hapraklit, 37 (1987), 424-427 (Hebrew).
- Furby, L. and Beyth-Marom, R., Risk taking in adolescence: A decision making perspective. Developmental Review, 12 (1992), 1-44.
- Beyth-Marom, R., Austin, L., Fischhoff, B., Palmgren, C. and Jacobs, M., Perceived consequences of risky behaviors. Developmental Psychology, 29 (3), (1993), 549-563.
- Beyth-Marom, R., Yafe, E., Privman, M. and Razy Harpaz, H., Satellite home tutorials vs. satellite classroom tutorials. Computers in the Social Studies Journal, 10 (1), (2002).
- Bergman, O., Beyth-Marom, R. and Nachmias, R., The user-subjective approach to Personal Information Management systems. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54 (9), (2003), 872-878.
- Beyth-Marom, R., Chajut, E., Roccas, S. and Sagiv, L., Internet-assisted versus traditional distance learning environments: Factors affecting students' preferences. Computers and Education Journal, 41 (1), (2003), 65-76.
- Beyth-Marom, R., Saporta, K. and Caspi, A., Synchronous vs. asynchronous tutorials: Factors affecting students' preferences and choices. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 37 (3), (2004), 241-258.
- Caspi, A., Chajut, E., Saporta, K., and Beyth-Marom, R., The influence of personality on social participation in learning environments. Learning and Individual Differences, 16 (2), (2005), 129-144.
- Beyth-Marom, R., Harpaz-Gorodeisky, G., Bar-Haim, A., and Goder, E., Identification, job satisfaction and work motivation among tutors at the Open University of Israel. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 3 (2), (2006), 1-13.
- Beyth-Marom, R., Fidler, F. and Cumming, G., Statistical Cognition: Towards Evidence-Based Practice in statistics and statistics education. Statistical Education Research Journal, 7 (2), (2008), 20-39.
- Lazar, A., Litvak-Hirsh, T., Bar-On, D., and Beyth-Marom, R., Through psychological lenses: university students' reflections following "Psychology of Holocaust" course. Educational Review, 61 (1), (2008), 101-114.
- Bergman, O., Beyth-Marom, R., and Nachmias, R. The user-subjective approach to PIM system design - Evidence and implementation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59 (2), (2008), 235-246.
- Bergman, O., Beyth-Marom, R., Nachmias, R., Gradovitch, N. and Whittaker, S., Improved search engines and navigation preference in Personal Information Managements. ACM Transaction on Information Systems, 26 (4), (2008), 1-24.
- Kogut, T. and Beyth-Marom, R., Who helps more? Self-Other discrepancies in helping-behavior contexts. Judgment and Decision Making, 3 (8), (2008), 595-605.
Chapters in Books
- Beyth-Marom, R., Mis/understanding diagnosticity: Direction and magnitude of change. In K. Borcherding, O.L. Larichev and D.M. Mesick (Eds.), Contemporary Issues in Decision Making (pp. 203-223). North Holland: Elsevier Science Publishers (1990).
- Beyth-Marom, R., Fischhoff, B., Jacobs-Quadrel, M., and Furby, L., Teaching decision making to adolescents: A critical review. In J. Baron and R.V. Brown (Eds.), Teaching Decision Making to Adolescents (pp. 19-61). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (1991).
- Beyth-Marom, R. and Fischhoff, B., Adolescents' decisions about risks: A cognitive perspective. In J. Schulemberg, J.L. Maggs and K. Hurrelmann (Eds.), Health Risks and Developmental Transitions During Adolescence. Cambridge University Press (1997).
- Beyth-Marom, R. and Sorozon-Saporta, K., Individual differences in attitudes towards and choices of learning/teaching technologies. In A. Tait, M. Vidal, U. Bernath and A. Szucs (Eds.), Distance and E-learning in Transition Learning Innovation, Teaching and Social Challenges (pp. 511-518). John-Wiley and Sons (2009).
- Beyth-Marom, R. and Fischhoff, B., Adolescents' decisions about risks: A cognitive perspective. Invited chapter in J. Schulemberg, J.L. Maggs, and K. Hurrelmann (Eds.), Health Risks and Developmental Transitions during Adolescence (42 pp.) Cambridge University Press (in press).
Edited Book
Beyth-Marom, R., Ayton, P., Beattie, J., and Koele, P. (Eds.), Contributions to decision making II. Selected proceedings of the 15th Research Conference of Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making, Jerusalem, Israel, August, 1995.Book Reviews
- Fischhoff, B. and Beyth-Marom, R., Failure has many fathers: Review of Victims of Groupthink by Irving Janis. Policy Sciences, 7 (1976), 388-393. Also in Megamot 20 (1974), 325-328 (Hebrew).
- Beyth-Marom, R., Limitations in judgment and choice: Review of Judgment and Choice by Robin Hogarth. Contemporary Psychology, 26 (1981), 671-672.
- Beyth-Marom, R., What happened? Review of What Happened? Diagnosing unfamilar real-life situations by A.J.M. Groenewegen. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 1-4 (in press).
Invited Commentaries in Journals
- Beyth-Marom, R., Teaching thinking: What, when, where, who and how. Applied Psychology, 42 (3), (1993), 220-223.
- Beyth-Marom, R., On the description of prescription. An invited commentary. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1993).
Proceedings
- Beyth-Marom, R., Ellis, S., and Ganor, M. (1988). Tutor and course coordination, Hierarchical relationship and mutual perception, in D. Sewart and J. S. Daniel (Eds.), Developing distance education (pp. 104-106), Oslo, ICDE.
- Beyth-Marom, R. and Enoch, Y. (1993). Different but equal? An open university and its social and academic environment. 16th World Conference of ICDE, Post-conference book (selected papers).
- Beyth-Marom, R., Chajut, E., Roccas, S., and Sagiv, L. (2000). Internet-assisted vs. traditional distance learning: Students' distinguishing characteristics. Research and Innovation in Open and Distance Learning: The first research workshop of EDEN (pp. 179-182).
- Bergman, O., Beyth-Marom, R., Leopold, A. (2000). From "Learning-by-Viewing" to "Learning-by-Doing": A Video Annotation Educational Technology Tool. Ed-Media 2000: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Montreal, Canada, 2000.
- Beyth-Marom, R., Yafe, E., Privman, M., and Razy Harpaz, H. (2001). Satellite home tutorials vs. satellite classroom tutorials. Ed-Media 2001: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Tampere, Finland, 2001.
- Beyth-Marom, R. and Saporta, K. (2002). Individual differences in attitudes towards and choices of learning/teaching techology. The Second Research Workshop of EDEN. Hildesheim, Germany, March 2002.
- Beyth-Marom, R. and Saporta, K. (2002). Satellite-based synchronous tutorials vs. satellite-based asynchronous videocassettes: Factors affecting student' attitudes and choices. Ed-Media 2002: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Denver, CO, 2002.
- Beyth-Marom, R., Ayal, S., and Epstein, A. (2003). Interactive guided reading on a CD for distance learners. Ed-Media 2003: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Honolulu, HI, 2003.
- Bergman, O., Beyth-Marom, R., and Nachmias, R. (2003). The use of subjective attributes in personal information management systems: Pilot results. Adjunct Proceedings of HCI International 2003 (ll, pp. 151-152), Crete, Greece.
- Bergman, O., Beyth-Marom, R., and Nachmias, R. (2003). My projects - A project oriented personal information management system. ASIST 2003 Conference: Humanizing Information Technology: From Ideas to Bits and Back.
- Bergman, O., Beyth-Marom, R., and Nachmias, R. (2003). The use of subjective attributes in personal information management systems: Initial results. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 40 (pp. 509-510), Long Beach, CA.
- Bergman, O., Beyth-Marom, R., and Nachmias, R. (2006). The project fragmentation problem in personal information management. Proceedings of the CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (pp. 271-274), Montreal, Canada.
- Bergman, O., Beyth-Marom, R., and Nachmias, R. (2006). What is so personal about the personal computer?: Subjective attributes in personal information management (in Hebrew). Proceedings of the Chais Conference for Learning Technologies (pp. 109-113), Raanana, Israel.
- Bergman, O., Beyth-Marom, R., Nachmias, R., Gradovitch and N. Whittaker, S. (2008). Type of search engine and personal information retrieval: Windows vs. Linux (in Hebrew). Proceedings of the Chais Conference for Learning Technologies 2008 (pp. 17-22) Raanana, Israel.
- Bergman, O., Tucker, S., Beyth-Marom, R., Cutrell, E., and Whittaker, S. (in press). It's not that important: Demoting personal information of low subjective importance using GrayArea. Proceedings of the CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems.
Research Reports
- Beyth-Marom, R. (1981). The subjective probability of conjunctions. Decision Research Report, 81-12, 44 pp., Decision Research, Eugene, OR.
- Beyth-Marom, R. (1982). How many vs. how probable: The effect of changing the question in a categorical task. Decision Research Report, 82-11, 30 pp., Decision Research, Eugene, OR.
- Beyth-Marom, R. and Lichtenstein, S. (1982). Accuracy of confidence assessments: Does number of alternatives make a difference?, Decision Research Report, Decision Research, Eugene, OR.
- Beyth-Marom, R. and Novik, R. (1985). Improving thinking skills: Problem solving and decision making. MABAT: Science in a Technological Society, 18, 22 pp., The Israeli Science Teaching Center, School of Education, Tel-Aviv University (in Hebrew).
- Beyth-Marom, R. and Ellis, S. (1986). Quantitative vs. qualitative methods: An ambiguous, inexclusive and dysfunctional distinction. The Open University of Israel, 13 pp.
- Leopold, A. and Beyth-Marom, R. (1999). Technology-based learning environments for higher education. Research Report 2/99-e, 31 pp., The Open University of Israel.
- Beyth-Marom, R.,Yafe, E., Privman, M., and Razy-Harpaz, H. (2000). Satellite home tutorials vs. satellite classroom tutorials. The Open University of Israel, 38 pp.
- Beyth-Marom, R., Alberton, Y., Zuker, M., and Chernovich, L. (2001). InterWise: Home tutorials via the internet. The Open University of Isael, 60 pp. (in Hebrew).
- Beyth-Marom, R. and Saporta, K. (2002). Regular tutoring: Satellite based synchronous tutorials or satellite based asynchronous videocassettes?
Open University Books (in Hebrew)
- Zamir, S., Beyth-Marom, R. et al. (1978). Introduction (32 pp.), Descriptive statistics (110 pp.), Discrete probability I (70 pp.), Discrete probability II (82 pp.), Discrete random variable (106 pp.), Continuous random variable (92 pp.), in Introduction to Statistics and Probability for Science Students.
- Zamir, S., Beyth-Marom, R. et al. (1978). Sampling (92 pp.), Estimation (80 pp.), Hypothesis testing (112 pp.), Non-parametric tests and Bayesian statistics (100 pp.), Correlation and regression (105 pp.), Analysis of variance (78 pp.), in Statistical inference.
- Beyth-Marom, R., (1986). Scientific investigation: Basic concepts: I and II (137 pp.), Principles of measurement (55 pp.), The social circumstances of behavioral research: Biases and methods to overcome them, Regression analysis (99 pp.), How to use regression analysis (123 pp.), Research evaluation (98 pp.), in Research Methods for the Social Sciences.
- Zemach, M. and Beyth-Marom, R., (1986). The survey (131 pp.), in Research methods for social sciences.
- Beyth-Marom, R. and Zakay, D. (Eds.). (1987). Judgment of evaluation under uncertainty: A reader, 402 pp.
- Beyth-Marom, R. (1987). An introduction to judgment and evaluation under uncertainty, 56 pp.
- Palgi-Heker, A. and Beyth-Marom, R. (1990). An introduction (120 pp.), in Introduction to Psychology.
- Beyth-Marom, R., Ellis, S., Saprota, K. and Meir, N. (1990). Psychological testing: A study guide, 370 pp.
- Bittman, I., Beyth-Marom, R., et al. (1992). Introduction: Concepts and definitions (70 pp.), Behavioristic and cognitive theories (112 pp.), Principles and methods in the evaluation of personality and its measurement (97 pp.), in Personality: Theory and research.
- Zamir, S. and Beyth-Marom, R. (1993). Introduction to statistics for social science students: Descriptive statistics, 2nd ed., 356 pp.
- Zamir, S. and Beyth-Marom, R. (1996). Introduction to Statistics for Social Sciences Students: Probability, 2nd ed.
- Beyth-Marom, R., (2001). Scientific investigation: Basic concepts I and II, (137 pp.), Principles of measurement (55 pp.), in Research methods for the social sciences, 2nd ed.
- Beyth-Marom, R. (Ed.). (2006). Heuristics and biases: The psychology of intuitive judgment: A reader, 402 pp.
- Beyth-Marom, R. (2006). An introduction to heuristics and biases, 56 pp.
- Beyth-Marom, R. (2006). Heuristics and biases: The psychology of intuitive judgment: A study guide.
- Fridman, D. and Beyth-Marom, R. (2002). The didactics of psychology teaching: A reader, 357 pp.
- Beyth-Marom, R., Fridman, D., Roditi, C. and Levi, I. (2002). The didactics of psychology teaching: A study guide, 154 pp.
- Elis, S., Beyth-Marom, R., and Saporta, K. (2005). The experiment, in Research methods for the social sciences, 2nd ed., 155 pp.
- Beyth-Marom, R., Gordoni, G. and Semach, M. (2009). The Survey, in Research Methods for the Social Sciences. 2nd ed., 237 pp.
- Beyth-Marom, R. and Liviatan, G. (2009). Psychological Testing: Theory and Application. A supplementary book (561 pp.).
Presentations and Lectures
- Explication of an implicit alternative hypothesis as a strategy to weaken confirmatory bias. Paper presented at the 19th Bayesian Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 1981.
- Workshop on teaching thinking under uncertainty. School of Education, Humboldt State University, Eureka, CA, 1981.
- Teaching thinking under uncertainty. Lecture to the Chamber of Statisticians, Oregon, 1981.
- A curriculum on thinking under uncertainty. An invited paper for the APA Convention, August 1982.
- Biases and debiasing. A presentation to the Office of Medical Education Research and Development, Michigan State University, May 1982.
- How probable vs. what percentage. An invited paper for the First National Conference on Decision Making and Judgment, Jerusalem, Israel, 1986.
- Teaching hypothesis testing as a ten-step process. International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Vancouver, Canada, 1986.
- A B.A. degree in Social Sciences at the Open University of Israel. Distance Education Conference, Pretoria, RSA, 1987.
- Tutor and course coordinator: Hierarchal relationships and mutual perceptions. 14th World Conference on Distance Education, Oslo, Norway, 1988.
- Understanding diagnosticity: Direction and magnitude of change. Twelfth Research Conference on Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making, Moscow, USSR, 1989.
- Different but equal? An open university and its social and academic environment. The 16th World Conference on Distance Education, Thailand, 1992.
- Factors affecting student preferences for internet-assisted versus traditional distance learning environments. Technology in Learning Environments: The Learning Citizen, Israel, 1999.
- Integrating an interactive multimedia into a distance learning course. Technology in Learning Environments: The Learning Citizen, Israel, 1999.
- Internet-assisted vs. traditional distance learning: students' distinguishing characteristics. Research and Innovation in Open and Distance Learning: The first Research Workshop of the European Distance Education Network, Prague, March 2000.
- Factors affecting student preferences of internet-assisted versus traditional distance learning environments. International Conference on Psychology after the Year 2000. University of Haifa, Israel, June 2000.
- From "learning-by-viewing" to "learning-by-doing": A video annotation educational technology tool. Ed-Media 2000: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Montreal, Canada, 2000.
- Satellite home tutorials vs. satellite classroom tutorials. Ed-Media 2001: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Tampere, Finland, 2001.
- Integrating technologies into academic teaching: Pedagogical and organizational considerations. The IUCEL Annual Conference (MEITAL), Haifa, Israel, 2002.
- Individual differences in attitudes towards and choices of learning/teaching technology. Research and Innovation in Open and Distance Learning: The Second Research Workshop of the European Distance Education Network. Germany, March 2002.
- Satellite based synchronous tutorials vs. satellite based asynchronous videocassettes. Ed-Media 2002: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Denver, USA, 2002.
- Interactive guided reading on a CD for distance learners. Ed-Media 2003: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Honolulu, USA, 2003.
- The use of subjective attributes in personal information management - Initial results (with O. Bergman and R. Nachmias). Poster at the ASIST 2003 Conference: Humanizing Information Technology: From Ideas to Bits and Back. California, 2003.
- The use of subjective Attributes in Personal Information Management Systems: Preliminary Findings (with O. Bergman and R. Nachmias). Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vienna, Austria, April, 2004.
- The project fragmentation problem in personal information management (with O. Bergman and R. Nachmias). CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems, Montreal, Canada, 2006.
- What is so personal in the personal computer? The use of subjective attibutes in Personal Information Management (with O. Bergman and R. Nachmias). Chais Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2006.
- Type of search engine and personal information retrieval: Windows vs. Linux (with O. Bergman, R. Nachmias, N. Gradovitch and S. Whittaker). Chais Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2008.
- The user-subjective approach: a new direction for PIM systems design (with O. Bergman, R. Nachmias and S. Whittaker). In PIM 2008, a CHI 2008 workshop, Florence, Italy, 2008.
- Regulation the diagnosis of learning disability and provision of test accommodations in institutions of higher education (with A. Ben Simon, N. Inbar-Weiss and Y. Cohen). IAEA 2008 conference, Cambridge, UK.
- Statistical cognition: The normative, the prescriptive and the descriptive. Mathematical Education, Haifa, School of Education, March, 2009.