Remah Haj

 

Short Biography

Ms. Remah Haj is a doctoral candidate (direct Ph.D. track.) in the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology at the Technion Institute. She earned her B.Ed. in Science Education, specializing in Biology, from Technion in 2011. In 2016, Remah completed her M.Ed. with honours in Secondary School Science Education from Oranim College. Post her B.Ed., Ms. Haj has been actively involved in science education, notably in supporting teacher professional development communities. From 2017 to 2019, she worked at The Centre for Educational Technology in Israel, designing materials for PISA simulation science exams for middle schools. During 2020-2022, she guided graduate students in the teaching certification program (M.Teach) at Oranim College. With over a decade of experience, she has been teaching biology and science to high school students. Ms. Haj also served as a jury member in various science competitions at Arab high schools. Her research primarily investigates digital curation as a method for enhancing subject matter comprehension in high school biology.

Email: remah.haj@campus.technion.ac.il

Publications

Theses

  1. Haj, R. (In progress). Activating Positive and Negative Epistemic Emotions to Enhance Student Engagement in SSI-DC Pathway Learning. Ph.D. thesis in science education. Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Supervision: Tsybulsky, D.
  2. Haj, R.  (2015). Impact of Teaching and Active Learning Integrated with STS on Correcting High School Students’ Erroneous Perceptions regarding Microorganisms and on Improving their Achievements and Motivation. M.Ed. thesis in Biology Education. Faculty of Education in Science, Oranim Academic College of Education. Supervision: Welicker-Pollak, M [In Hebrew with abstract in English].

Referred Papers in Professional Journals

  1. Dayan, E., Haj, R. & Tsybulsky, D. (Under review). Beyond the classroom: Digital curation as a means for students’ engagement with social-scientific issues. Journal of Research in Science Teaching.
  2. Haj, R., Tsybulsky, D. (Submitted). Harnessing epistemic emotions: Enhancing student engagement in digital curation-based socio-scientific issues learning pathway.

Refereed papers in conference proceeding

  1. Haj, R., Dayan, E. & Tsybulsky, D. (2025). Digital curation in science education: A new learning pathway to enhance student engagement with socio-scientific issues. Chais2025 Annual Conference Proceeding, pp. 37E- 40E, Raanana, Israel.

Contributed talks and posters 

  1. Dayan, E., Haj, R. & Tsybulsky, D. Expanding horizons: Utilizing digital curation to foster student engagement with socio-scientific issues. ERIDOB2024. Lyon, France, July 2024. Oral presentation. PPT.
  2.  Haj, R., Dayan, E., & Tsybulsky, D. Digital curation in science education: A new learning pathway to enhance student engagement with socio-scientific issues. Chais2025 Annual Conference . Raanana, Israel, February 2025. Oral presentation. PPT.
  3. Haj, R., Tsybulsky, D. From curation to engagement: Implementing a digital learning pathway for socio-scientific issues. Annual International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Education 2025. Western Galilee College, Israel, June 2025. Oral presentation.