Michal Dvir

Short Biography

Dr. Michal Dvir is a faculty member in the Department of Math Education at the University of Haifa. She concluded her Post-Doctoral tenure at the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology at the Technion between 2021 and 2023. With a solid academic foundation in Mathematics, Mathematics Education, and Statistics Education, Dr. Dvir has also delved into research on the co-development of knowledge and identity in Higher Education students. Her primary research areas encompass exploring the interconnections between Statistical, Scientific, and the Nature of Science reasoning, designing for authenticity, fostering humanistic learning communities, and promoting the growth of students’ identities.

Email: dvirmich@gmail.com

Publications

Refereed papers in professional journals

Published Papers

  1. Dvir, M., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2021). Informal statistical models and modeling. Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/10986065.2021.1925842
  2. Dvir, M., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2021). The double-edged sword of conjecturing. Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/10986065.2021.1940427
  3. Dvir, M., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2018). The role of model comparison in young learners’ reasoning with statistical models and modeling. ZDM – International Journal on Mathematics Education, 50(7), 1183-1196.

Submitted Papers

  1. Dvir, M., & Ben-Zvi, D. (accepted with minor revision). Students’ informal quantitative estimations of uncertainty in statistical modeling. Instructional Science.
  2. Dvir, M., Ben-Zvi, D., & Aridor, K. (accepted with minor revision). Students’ personal purposes and the appropriation of statistical modeling norms of participation. Learning and Instruction.
  3. Hod, Y., & Dvir, M. (accepted with major revision). Artifacts-of-Identity: resources that facilitate transforming participation in blended learning communities. The Internet and Higher Education.
  4. Dvir, M., & Hod, Y. (accepted with major revision). From turtle in a shell to one that wins the race: noticing identities in classroom learning communities. Journal of the Learning Sciences.
  5. Dvir, M., & Ben-Zvi, D. (under review). Repurposing a computer-based simulation to foster young learners’ reasoning with statistical models and modeling. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning.
  6. Dvir, M., & Ben-Zvi, D. (under review). Students’ actual purposes when engaging with computerized simulations, and their gradual appropriation of its intended purposes in doubly authentic simulation activities. British Journal of Educational Technology.
  7. Aridor, K., Dvir, M., Tsybulsky, D. & Ben-Tzvi, D. (under review). The interrelations between Statistical reasoning, Scientific reasoning and Nature of Science understanding through Citizen Science: articulations of Uncertainty. Special issue on Citizen Science. Instructional Science.

Refereed papers in conference proceeding:

  1. Dvir, M., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2017). The role of model comparison in young learners’ reasoning with statistical models and modeling. Proceedings of the Tenth International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy (pp. 108-117). Rotorua, New Zealand.
  2. Dvir, M., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2018). Model comparisons as a means of providing an informal quantitative estimation for statistical uncertainty. In Tenth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS10). Kyoto, Japan.
  3. Hod, Y., Dvir, M., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2018). Interconnecting knowledge, experience, and self in humanistic knowledge building communities. In Kay, J., and Luckin, R.(Eds.), Rethinking learning in the digital age: Making the Learning Sciences count, 13th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS). London, UK: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
  4. Dvir, M., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2019). Repurpose and extend: making a model statistical. In Eleventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME11) (No. 10). Freudenthal Group; Freudenthal Institute; ERME.
  5. Dvir, M., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2019). The double-edged sword of conjecturing in the context of informal statistical modeling across two worlds of inquiry. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy (pp. 2-10). Los Angeles, California.
  6. Dvir. M. (2020). The interplay between jointly constructed ideas and identities in statistical modeling. Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference of the Learning Sciences (Vol.1, pp. 2701-2702). Nashville, Tennessee: ISLS.