Professor at the Beit Berl Academic College, head of the M.S. program in planning and evaluation studies. From 2005 to 2011, she headed the college's research authority and she is currently the the Mofet Institute's committee chair for publication of educational monographs. Prof. Presko's expertise is in research methodology and program evaluation. In recent years, her main area of research interest has been teacher training. Prof. Fresko holds a Ph.D. degree in education from Tel Aviv University, received in 1994.Associate researcher in the Science Teaching Department at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Dr. Karsenty lectures in several frameworks in the area of training teachers of mathematics. At the Davidson Institute of Science Education, she founded the SHLAV Project for advancing secondary school students with low achievements in mathematics and headed the project for a period of eight years. She currently directs a new project in the Department of Science Teaching that involves filming and analyzing math lessons and using them in teacher training. Dr. Karsenty specializes in secondary school students' processes of mathematical thinking, particularly students at risk, in alternative approaches to teaching math to low achievers, in models of support for math teachers' professional development, and in measurement and evaluation of math achievements of secondary school studies. Dr. Karsenty holds a Ph.D. degree in mathematics education from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, received in 2002.