Prof. Randa Khair-Abbas

College President

The Academic Arab College for Education in‮ ‬Israel‭, ‬Haifa

randaab@arabcol.ac.il

+972-4-9515543

CV File

 

2026 American Educational Research Conference  Los Angeles, California Motivation for Learning L2, Goal-Setting, and Self-Regulated Learning Among Arab Students with Learning Disabilities

2025 18th Annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (Accepted) Seville, Spain Motivational pathways In L2 Learning: A comparative study of Arab students with  their peers

2025 American Educational Research Conference  Denver, Colorado Language learning strategies in elementary education: Teacher implementation and student perspective

2024 26th Annual International Conference on Education Athens Institute for Education and Research- Athens, Greece. Exploring variability in language learning and study strategy implementation in Arab- Israeli elementary schools

2024 Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI 2024 Annual Conference) Philadelphia- USA Dialogue between Israeli Arab and U.S. women

2024 Canadian International Conference on Education  Toronto, Canada The contribution of insider-outsider research to social justice work

2024 World Conference on Teaching, Learning and Education Paris, France Navigating the innovative digital frontier: The  teacher’s role in the ethical implications, challenges, and opportunities of implementing AI in education

2024 World Conference on Teaching, Learning and Education Paris, France Reclaiming multiculturalism: An academic education college’s model for creative coexistence

2023 ERAS Conference & WERA Focal Meeting 2023 Nanyang Technological University، Singapore “American women may perceive us as terrorists by compulsion of our bearded husbands:” Education and breaking stereotypes

2022 World Education Research Conference San Diego Ca, USA Family communication styles and self-image of Israeli Druze adolescents

2022 World Education Research Conference San Diego Ca, USA Effective teachers` communicative strategies when working with linguistically diverse learners

2021 World Education Research Conference  Virtual Focal Meeting  Real time experience of participants in higher education during the Coronavirus: A case study

2021 World Education Research Conference  Virtual Focal Meeting Teachers’ instructional strategies for facilitating learning in linguistically diverse primary classes in Israel

2021 International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE) Virtual Focal Meeting  Is there a commitment in trainee teachers of Israel’s Arab sector to educate for multiculturalism?

2019 The 2019 Association for Women in Psychology annual conference Rhode Island, USA Across the ocean and in my thoughts: How Arab women living in Israel and women in the United States perceive each other.

2019 World Education Research Association 2019, Focal Meeting in Tokyo 10th Anniversary. 6-10 August Tokyo Effective communicative strategies for linguistically diverse learners: A review of the literature in Israel, South Korea, and the United States. Global perspectives on education research

2018 20th Annual International Conference on Education Athens, Greece We don’t talk about that here: Teachers, religion, and public schools

2017 The 32nd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Orlando, Florida, USA Traditionalism and workplace preferences among Arab and Jewish Israeli women.

2016 WERA- World Education Research Association Washington DC, USA Primary teachers’ communicative strategies for linguistically diverse language learners: A cross-cultural case

2016 AERA- American Education Research Association Washington DC, USA The use of modern standard and spoken Arabic in math lessons: The case of a diglossia language

2016 The National Conference of the Association for Women in Psychology Pittsburgh, PA, USA Transforming the psychology of women and gender from the transnational feminist perspective

2015 ECARA – European Conference on Educational Research  Budapest, Hungary Teachers’ communicative strategies for non-native language learners in primary grades: A cross-cultural case study

2015 The American Psychological Association, Division 35 (Society for the Psychology of Women) International Summit Toronto Continuity and change in perceptions of Arab women in the Middle East

2014 AERA- American Education Research Association Philadelphia, USA Effective New Jersey and Israeli elementary teachers’ questioning techniques during mathematics and literacy lessons

2014 The 10th Biennial Society for the Psychological Study of Social Convention Portland, OR, USA Role expansion versus role conflict among employed Arab Israel women

2013 The National Conference of the Association for Women in Psychology Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Patriarchy, parent-daughter relationships and women’s future orientation in the US and Israel

2013 The 5th Global Conferences Strangers, Aliens & Foreigners. A Diversity and Recognition Project Mansfield College, Oxford. We cannot move forward unless we preserve our traditions: Women principals as leaders in traditional Israeli Druze society

2011 The Annual Conference on Religion and Society, University Center, University of Chicago  Chicago, USA Guardian of religious tradition and agent of social change: The life journey(s) of an Israeli Druze woman

2011 The 3rd Annual workshop, Forging American-Israeli collaboration Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA Leadership perceptions among women managers from different worlds