Remah Haj

 

Short Biography

Remah Haj is a Ph.D. student in the direct Ph.D. track at the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. She earned a B.Ed. in Science Education, specializing in Biology, from the Technion in 2011, and an M.Ed. (with honours) in Secondary School Science Education from Oranim College in 2016. Remah has extensive experience in science education, including work in teacher professional development communities. From 2017 to 2019, she worked at the Centre for Educational Technology in Israel, designing instructional materials for PISA simulation science assessments for middle schools. Between 2020 and 2022, she guided graduate students in the M.Teach teaching certification program at Oranim College. She has over a decade of experience teaching biology and science at the high school level and has served as a jury member in various science competitions in Arab high schools. Her doctoral research focuses on the use of digital curation to support students’ learning, understanding, and engagement 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.
  4. Haj, R. & Tsybulsky, D. Activating epistemic emotions to enhance student engagement in socio-scientific issues through digital curation. ESERA 2025. Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2025. Oral presentation. Abstract.