Theses & Dissertations

Year			Student	Advisor
2026	Leading from the middle in a war crisis : agentic leadership perspective	MA	Kovus, Hila	Prof. Chen Schechter Prof. Pascale Benoliel
2025	Linking national resources to learning outcomes : the interplay of financial, human, and cultural capital in cross-national PISA data	PhD	Fereres, Gaelle	Prof. Pascale Benoliel Prof. Chen Schechter
2025	School principals' perceptions of the "circles" policy (facilitating matriculation exams) during the Iron Swords War	MA	Gal, David	Prof. Chen Schechter Prof. Pascale Benoliel
2025	School leadership during wartime : the perception of school principals regarding their role during the Iron Swords War crisis period	MA	Sassi, Eti	Prof. Chen Schechter Prof. Pascale Benoliel
2025	The development of human capital in secondary schools, from the perspective of human resource management	PhD	Zerrad, H.	Prof. Chen Schechter
2024	School principals’ agency within a plurality of diverse fields (Hebrew)	PhD	Gordin Yoskovitz, Gonny	Prof. Chen Schechter
2024	Development of professional learning communities amongst elementary school home room teachers (Hebrew)	PhD	Vaitzman Ben David, Hila	Prof. Chen Schechter
2024	Promoting teacher collective efficacy and organizational resilience : investigating the influence of middle-leaders' transformational leadership in a moderated mediation model	PhD	Zadok, Ayala	Prof. Pascale Benoliel Prof. Chen Schechter
2023	Leadership for social mobility in the Arab educational system in Israel (HEBREW)	PhD	Elmalak-Wattad, Alaa	Prof. Chen Schechter
2023	Coherency challenge : how stakeholders make sense of professional learning communities (HEBREW)	PhD	Govrin, Shevi	Prof. Chen Schechter
2023	Resilience in school leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic : opportunities and challenges (HEBREW)	MA	Gruber, Maayan Atara	Prof. Chen Schechter
2023	Coherence of professional development in the Israeli education system	MA	Hirsch, Arnon	Prof. Chen Schechter
2023	Cognitive competences of systems thinking and thinking styles among distributive leadership and management teams in schools (Hebrew)	PhD	Leibovich, Simon	Prof. Chen Schechter
2023	Principals’ systems thinking and school effectiveness : the mediating role of SMT learning and collective teacher efficacy and the moderating role of (dis)similarity and school structure	PhD	Nadav, Nechama	Prof. Pascale Benoliel Prof. Chen Schechter
2023	Characteristics and development of secondary schools' disciplinary professional learning communities in mathematics deliberating on their successes (HEBREW)	PhD	Shamir, Orit	Prof. Chen Schechter Prof. Pascale Benoliel
2022	Investigation of resilience attributes and practices among school principals during the induction period (HEBREW)	PhD	Halevi, Lior	Prof. Chen Schechter
2020	Coherence between policy makers and school leaders : exploring pedagogical reform in Israel	MA	Bros, Eliana	Prof. Chen Schechter
2020	Collective learning from success among middle school English teachers : factors that foster or inhibit the process of learning from success	MA	Halevy, Meran	Prof. Chen Schechter
2019	Staff members' perceptions of "learning from success" in a special education school for students with severe intellectual disabilities	MA	Kasnett, Tova	Prof. Chen Schechter
2019	New principals entry to post and the micro politics in schools (HEBREW)	PhD	Soria, Ofrfa	Prof. Chen Schechter
2018	Exploring school principals’ sense-making of their leadership role within the natinal reform "courage to change"	PhD	Ganon-Shilon, Sherry	Prof. Chen Schechter
2018	Systems thinking in educational leadership: structure validation (HEBREW)	MA	Nadav, Nechama	Prof. Pascale Benoliel Prof. Chen Schechter
2018	Mentoring new principals investigating the models and stages of development of the mentoring process in the first two years of principals' work (HEBREW)	PhD	Yaakov-Firuz, Florit	Prof. Chen Schechter
2017	School middle leaders’ perceptions of "the meaningful learning reform" (HEBREW)	MA	Geffen Sitton Hagay	Prof. Chen Schechter
2016	The effects of online ’powerful learning environments’ on self-regulated learning, technological pedagogical content knowledge and sefl-efficacy about technology integration among preservice teachers	MA	Ben-Aharon, Danit	Associate Prof. Tova Michalsky Prof. Chen Schechter