Senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Haifa and a member of the professional board of the National Authority for Measurement and Evaluation in Education (RAMA). He is a past Co-Director of the Center for Research on Peace Education. His research examines intergroup empathy processes, with a focus on Jewish-Arab relations in Israel, and the educational alternatives for improving intergroup relations through fostering emotional and cognitive skills. In the area of educational assessment, his work includes conceptual and empirical examination of measurement and evaluation in learning and instruction processes (specifically collaborative learning and higher order skills), educational program evaluation, and policy setting processes.

Dr. Kupermintz holds a PhD in educational psychology from Stanford University, received in 1999.