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Overview

Anat Zohar is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on social sciences, medicine, and psychology. Within these, they have contributed significantly to education, infectious diseases, and developmental and educational psychology.

Their recent scholarly output includes notable papers covering topics such as COVID-19 symptom dynamics, vaccine effectiveness, and educational methodologies. Key publications include:

  • Longitudinal symptom dynamics of COVID-19 infection, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Effectiveness of a Third Dose of BNT162b2 mRNA Vaccine, 2021, The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine effectiveness against Sars-Cov-2 infection: Findings from a large observational study in Israel, 2021, Preventive Medicine
  • A Prediction Model to Prioritize Individuals for a SARS-CoV-2 Test Built from National Symptom Surveys, 2020, Med
  • Teachers' knowledge and professional development for metacognitive instruction in the context of higher order thinking, 2022, Metacognition and Learning

Their research topics include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Education and Critical Thinking Development
  • COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies
  • Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Anat Zohar are:

  • Jennifer Kertes
  • Naama Shamir Stein
  • Smadar Shilo
  • Hagai Rossman
  • Ayya Keshet

The scientist has published predominantly in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Clinical Immunology

Anat Zohar's works often intersect public health with educational strategies, framing both infectious disease modeling and learning methodologies within broader social and psychological contexts. This interdisciplinary approach reflects in their contributions to both medical and social science literature.

Best Publications

  • Fostering students' knowledge and argumentation skills through dilemmas in human genetics

    Anat Zohar;Flora Nemet

  • Higher Order Thinking Skills and Low-Achieving Students: Are They Mutually Exclusive?

    Anat Zohar;Yehudit J. Dori

  • A review of research on metacognition in science education: current and future directions

    Anat Zohar;Sarit Barzilai

  • Teachers' beliefs about low-achieving students and higher order thinking

    Anat Zohar;Adi Degani;Einav Vaaknin

  • Anthropomorphism and teleology in reasoning about biological phenomena

    Pinchas Tamir;Anat Zohar

  • Epistemic Thinking in Action: Evaluating and Integrating Online Sources

    Sarit Barzilai;Anat Zohar

  • Higher Order Thinking in Science Classrooms: Students' Learning and Teachers' Professional Development

    Anat Zohar

  • Teachers’ metacognitive knowledge and the instruction of higher order thinking

    Anat Zohar

  • Science Teacher Education and Professional Development in Argumentation

    Anat Zohar

  • Explicit teaching of meta-strategic knowledge in authentic classroom situations

    Anat Zohar;Adi Ben David

  • Reconsidering Personal Epistemology as Metacognition: A Multifaceted Approach to the Analysis of Epistemic Thinking

    Sarit Barzilai;Anat Zohar

  • The effects of explicit teaching of metastrategic knowledge on low- and high-achieving students.

    Anat Zohar;Bracha Peled

  • Assessing Teachers’ Pedagogical Knowledge in the Context of Teaching Higher‐order Thinking

    Anat Zohar;Noa Schwartzer

  • Lifting the taboo regarding teleology and anthropomorphism in biology education—heretical suggestions

    Anat Zohar;Shlomit Ginossar

  • The Nature and Development of Teachers' Metastrategic Knowledge in the Context of Teaching Higher Order Thinking

    Anat Zohar

  • Her Physics, His Physics: Gender Issues in Israeli Advanced Placement Physics Classes.

    Anat Zohar;David Sela

  • Paving a clear path in a thick forest: a conceptual analysis of a metacognitive component

    Anat Zohar;Adi Ben David

  • The Effect of the Biology Critical Thinking Project on the Development of Critical Thinking.

    Anat Zohar;Yehudith Weinberger;Pinchas Tamir

  • Elements of Teachers' Pedagogical Knowledge Regarding Instruction of Higher Order Thinking

    Anat Zohar

  • Contribution of Meta‐strategic Knowledge to Scientific Inquiry Learning

    Adi Ben-David;Anat Zohar

Frequent Co-Authors

Pinchas Tamir
Pinchas Tamir Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yehudit Judy Dori
Yehudit Judy Dori Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

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