A senior lecturer in the Department of Education at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where she heads the specialization in Curriculum and Instruction. Dr. Tabak served, together with Joshua Radisinsky, as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Learning Sciences, and is a former president of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS). Her research concerns conceptual knowledge, reasoning skills and professional identity. Specifically, she constructs models of professional vision on whose basis she develops teaching methods and learning technologies. This is the framework within which Dr. Tabak developed the “teacher as partner” approach and the concept of “synergistic scaffolding.” With the objective of making science accessible, Dr. Tabak examines how it is possible to enhance the use of online information in order to make evidence-based health-related decisions. These studies take place within a broad methodological framework of design-based research and laboratory research.