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List of Publications - Iris Levin, Ph.D.
A. ARTICLES
1. I. Levin, S. Breznitz
Stars and chains: A model for continued associations
Acta Psychologica, 41, 1977 (165-181)
2. I. Levin
The development of time concepts in young children: Reasoning about duration
Child Development, 48, 1977 (435-444)
3. I. Levin
Creativity and two modes of associative fluency: Chains and stars
Journal of Personality, 46, 1978 (426-437)
4. I. Levin, E. Israeli, E. Darom
The development of time concepts in young children: The relation between duration and succession
Child Development, 49, 1978 (755-764)
5. B. Nevo, I. Levin
Remote Associates Test: Assessment of Creativity in Hebrew
Megamot, 24, 1978 (87-98) (Hebrew)
6. S. Kav-Venaki, I. Levin, Y. Esformas, E. Karson
Patterns of self and intra-group evaluations in two different Israeli preadolescent peer groups: The kibbutz and the city
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 49, 1978 (237-251)
7. I. Levin
Interference of time-related and unrelated cues with duration comparisons of young children: Analysis of Piaget's formulation of the relation of time and speed
Child Development, 50, 1979 (469-477)
8. I. Levin, R. Bekerman-Greenberg
Moral judgement and moral behavior in sharing: A developmeal analysis
Genetic Psychological Monographs, 101, 1980 (215-230)
9. I. Levin
Analysis of the development of time concept in preschoolers and young schoolers: Reevaluation of Piaget's theory
Megamot, 25, 1980 (351-366) (Hebrew)
10. S. Strauss, I. Levin
A commentary on R. S. Siegler's: Developmental sequence within and between concepts. Monographs of the Society of Research in Child Development, 1980, (75-80)
11. R. Falk, R. Falk, I. Levin
A potential for learning probability in young children
Educational Studies in Mathematics, 11, 1980 (181-204)
12. I. Levin, I. Gilat, T. Zelniker
The role of cue salience in the development of time concepts:
Duration comparisons in young children.
Developmental Psychology, 16, 1980 (661-671)
13. I. Levin, I. Gilat
A developmental analysis of early time concepts: The equivalence and additivity of the effect of interfering cues in duration comparisons of young children
Child Development, 54, 1983 (78-83)
14. I. Levin
The sequence in development of time, speed and distance concepts
Cahiers de Psychologie, 3, 1983 (371-377)
15. I. Levin, R. Goldstein, T. Zelniker
The role of memory and integration in early time concepts
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 37, 1984 (262-270)
16. I. Levin, T. Globerson
The development of time concepts among advantaged and disadvantaged Israeli children Journal of Genetic Psychology, 145, 1984 (117-125)
17. I. Levin, F. Wilkening, Y. Dembo
Development of time quantification: Integration and non-integration of beginnings and endings in comparing durations
Child Development, 55, 1984 (2160-2172)
18. L. Tolchinsky-Landsmann, I. Levin
Writing in preschoolers: An age-related analysis
Applied Psycholinguistics, 6, 1985 (319-339)
(Special issue on psycholinguistics and writing)
19. L. Tolchinsky-Landsmann, I. Levin
Writing in four to six year olds: Representation of semantic and phonetic similarities and differences
Journal of Child Language, 14, 1987 (127-144) [French translation by J. Fijalkow, (1987). Ecrire de quatre a six ans. Les Dossiers de L'Education, 11-12, 43-60.]
20. F. Wilkening, I. Levin, S. Druyan
Children's counting strategies for time quantification and integration
Developmental Psychology, 23, 1987 (823-831)
21. I. Levin, & T. Globerson
Competence and performance revisited: A review of E. D. Neimark, R. De Lisi & J. L. (Eds.). Moderators of Competence, Hillsdale, N J: Erlbaum, 1985.
Contemporary Psychology, 32, 1987 (701-702)
22. I. Levin, L. Tolchinsky-Landsmann
Becoming literate: Referential and phonetic strategies in early reading and writing International Journal of Behavioral Development, 12, 1989 (369-384)
23. I. Levin, S.R. Siegler, S. Druyan
Misconceptions on motion: Development and training effects
Child Development, 61, 1990 (1544-1557)
24. I. Levin, S.R. Siegler, S. Druyan, S., R. Gardosh
Everyday and curriculum-based physics concepts: When does short-term training bring change where years of schooling have failed to do so?
British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 8, 1990 (269-279)
25. I. Levin, & O. Korat
Sensitivity to phonological, morphological, and semantic cues in early reading and writing in Hebrew
Merrill Palmer Quarterly, 39, 1993 (213-232)
26. I. Levin, S. Druyan
When socio-cognitive transaction among peers fails: The case of misconception in science Child Development, 64, 1993 (1571-1591)
27. I. Levin
Against rejection, and in favor of doubt: Don't ask what reading instruction method wins, but how, when and for what
Megamot, 34, 1994 (438-446) (Hebrew)
28. S. Druyan, I. Levin
The differential contribution of field-dependent-independent cognitive styles
to socio-cognitive transactions in promoting scientific reasoning
International Journal of Behavioral Development, 19, 1996 (831-850)
29. Y. Dembo, I. Levin, R.S. Siegler
Schooling and training effects on a geometric misconception:
A comparison of Ultra-orthodox and mainstream students
Developmental Psychology, 33, 1997 (92-103)
30. I. Levin, R. Levy-Shiff, T. Appelbaum-Peled, I. Katz, M. Komar, N.Meiran
Antecedents and consequences of maternal involvement in children's homework:
A longitudinal analysis
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology,18, 1997 (207-227)
31. Y. Dembo, I. Levin, R.S. Siegler
Ultra-orthodox and mainstreamers:
The effects of different schooling systems on problem solving
Megamoth, 38, (4), 1998 (469-503) (Hebrew)
32. E. Adi-Japha, I Levin, S. Solomon
Emergence of representation in drawing: The relation between dynamic
and referential aspects
Cognitive Development, 13, (1), 1998 (25-51)
33. E. Shatil, D. C. Share & I. Levin
On the contribution of kindergarten writing to grade 1 literacy:
A longitudinal study in Hebrew, Applied Psycholinguistics, 21, 2000, (1-21).
34. D. Ben Yitzhak & I. Levin
The development of communication skills of hearing impaired toddlers in the second year: From pragmatics to semantics. Journal of The Israeli Speech, Language and Hearing Association, 23, 2001 (79-97).
35. I. Levin, D. Ravid, & S. Rapaport
Morphology and spelling among Hebrew-speaking children:
From kindergarten to first grade. Journal of Child Language, 28, 2001, (741-772).
36. R. Ezrati, & I. Levin
Time estimation by adults who stutter. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 44, 2001, (144-155).
37. I. Levin & C. Greenbaum
Introduction: Children in Israel: Historical aspects and current issues. Megamot, 41, 2001, (9-17).
38. O. Korat & I. Levin
Maternal beliefs, mother-child interaction, and child’s literacy:
Comparison of independent and collaborative text writing between two social groups. Applied Developmental Psychology, 22, 2001, (397-420).
39. D. Aram & I. Levin
Mother-child joint writing in low SES:
Sociocultural Factors, Maternal Mediation, and Emergent Literacy. Cognitive Development, 16, 2001, (831-852).
40. I. Levin, Patel, S., Margalit, T. & N. Barad
Letter-names: effect on letter saying, spelling and word recognition in Hebrew. Applied Psycholinguistics, 23, 2002, (269-300).
41. D. Aram & I. Levin
Mother-Child joint writing and storybook reading:
Relations with literacy among low SES kindergartners.
Merrill Palmer Quarterly, 48, 2002, (202-224).
In Press
42. O. Korat & I. Levin
The social construction of spelling:
Mother-child interaction, maternal beliefs and child’s spelling.
Journal of Literacy Research.
Submitted
1. I. Levin & A. Bus
Does writing evolve from drawing?
Young children making notes and mothers’ recognition of their notations
2. D. Ben Yitshak & I. Levin
Play development, preverbal skills, and home environment in infants with hearing loss and with normal hearing
B. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
1. I. Levin
The nature and development of time concepts: The effect of interfering .
In W. J. Friedman (Ed.), The psychology of time, 1982 (pp. 47-85). New York: Academic Press.
. L. Tolchinsky-Landsmann, I. Levin
The development of the graphic and symbolic aspects of the written language among preschoolers: A study in a semitic language
In E. Ferreiro & M. Gomez (Eds.), Vuevos perspectivas soire los procesos lectura y escritura, 1982. Mexico: Editorial Siglo xxi.
3. I. Levin, H. Simons
The nature of children's and adults' concepts of time, speed and distance and their sequence in development: Analysis via circular motion
In I. Levin (Ed.), Stage and structure: Reopening the debate, 1986 (pp. 77-105). Norwood: Ablex Publishing.
4. I. Levin
Introduction
In I. Levin (Ed.), Stage and structure: Reopening the debate, 1986 (pp. vii-xix). Norwood: Ablex Publishing Company.
5. I. Levin, Wilkening, F.
Measuring time via counting: The development of children's conception of time as a quantifiable dimension
In I. Levin & D. Zakay (Eds.), Time and human cognition: A life span perspective, 1989 (pp. 119-144). Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Company
6. I. Levin
Principles underlying time measurement: The development of children's constraints on counting time
In I. Levin & D. Zakay (Eds.), Time and human cognition: A life span perspective , 1989 (pp. 145-183). Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Company
7. I. Levin, D. Zakay
Introduction
In I. Levin & D. Zakay (Eds.), Time and human cognition: A life span perspective (pp. 1-7). Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Company
8. S. Druyan, I. Levin
Socio-cognitive transaction as a learning environment of everyday and formal concepts.
In G. Gilli & A. Marchetti (Eds.), Intelligenza come sociabilita, 1991 (pp. 183-209). Milano: Raffaello Cortina. (To appear also In S. Strauss (Ed.), Learning environments and cognitive development. Norwood: Ablex)
9. I. Levin
The development of the concept of time in children: An integrative model.
In F. Macar, V. Pouthas & W.J. Friedman (Eds.), Time, action and cognition: Towards bridging the gap, 1992 (pp. 13-32). Dodrecht: Kluwer Academic Publisers
10. I. Levin, R. Gardosh.
Everyday concepts and formal concepts: Do children distinguish between linear and rotational speed?
In D. Tirosh (Ed.), Implicit and explicit knowledge: An educational approach, 1994 (pp. 181-203). Norwood: Ablex
11. I. Levin, O. Korat, P. Amsterdamer
Emergent writing among Israeli kindergartners: Cross-linguistic commonalities and Hebrew-specific issues
In G. Rijlaarsdam, H. van den Bergh, & M. Couzijn, (Eds.).Theories, models and methodology: Current trends in research of writing, 1996 (pp. 398-419). Amsterdam University Press.
12. I. Levin, D.L. Share, E. Shatil
A qualitative-quantitative study of preschool writing: Its development and contribution to school literacy. In M. Levy & S. Ransdell (Eds.), The science of writing, 1996 (pp. 271-293). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
13. I. Levin, P. Amsterdamer, O. Korat
Early writing in preschool: Developmental perspectives and language effects.
In J. Shimron (Ed.), Psycholinguistic studies in Israel: Language acquisition, reading and writing. 1996 (pp. 248-289). Jerusalem: Magnes. (Hebrew)
14. D. L. Share, I. Levin
Learning to read and write in Hebrew
In M. Harris & G. Hatano (Eds.), Learning to read and write: A cross-linguistic perspective, 1999 (pp. 89-111). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, in the series: Cambridge Studies in Cognitive and Perceptual Development. Cambridge University Press.
15. I. Levin, D. Ravid & S. Rapaport
Developing morphological awareness and learning to write: A two - way street.
In T. Nunes (Ed.). Learning to read: An integrated view from research and practice, 1999, (pp. 77-104). Kluwer Academic Publishers.
16. I. Levin
Aleph-Ohel, Bet Ze Bayit, Gimel ze Gamal Gadol (ABC song in Hebrew)
What do young children gain from letter names? In P. Klein & D. Givon (Ed.), Language, learning and literacy in young children, (in press). Tel Aviv: Ramot (Hebrew).
17. D. Aram, O. Korat & I. Levin (authors ordered alphabetically)
Parent-child joint writing: A context for promoting emergent literacy. In M. Joshi (Ed.), Literacy acquisition assessment & intervention: The role of phonology, orthography and morphology.
C. PAPERS PRESENTED AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
PUBLISHED IN PROCEEDINGS
1. I. Levin, & R. Gardosh, R. (1987).
The development of the concept of speed: A case of different frames of reference. In J. D. Novak (Ed.). Proceedings of the second international seminar Misconception and Educational Strategies in Science and Mathematics, 1987. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 3, 302-309
2. E. Adi-Japha, I. Levin, S. Solomon (1995).
The dynamics of children's drawings
Proceedings of the 2nd Summer School in Cognitive Science (Perspectives on Cognitive Science, Vol. 2) B. Konikov, (Ed. ). Sofia, Bulgaria: New Bulgaria University
3. D. Ben-Yitzhak & I. Levin (1998).
The development of solitary play of hearing impaired infants and toddlers
Proceddings of the 18 th International Congress on Education of the Deaf (Cognition and learning, vol. 1) A. Weisel & T. Akamatsu (Eds.), pp. 310-314: Tel Aviv University
4. R. Ezrati & I. Levin (2000)
Anxiety and coping strategies in people who stutter.
Abstract: Journal of Fluency Disorders, 25, 220.
5. R. Ezrati & I. Levin (2001)
Anxiety in people who stutter - State and/or trait
Proceedings of the IFA: Third World Congress on Fluency Disorders: theory research, treatment and self-help (pp. 159-165), Numegen University Press, Nyborg, Denmark
6. D. Aram & I. Levin (in press)
Maternal Contributions to Literacy via Writing and Reading with her Kindergartner. Proceedings of the EARLI, special Interest Group on Writing, Verona, Italy.
D. EDITING
1. I. Levin (Ed.)
Stage and structure: Reopening the debate. Norwood: Ablex (original contributions), 1986
2. I. Levin, & D. Zakay (Eds.)
Time and human cognition: A life span perspective. Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Company (original contributions), 1989
3. I. Levin, & Greenbaum, C. (Guest Eds.)
The Child in Israel. Megamot (Hebrew) 2001
E. MISCELLENIOUS
1. I. Levin
The great debate between 'whole language' and 'skill training' or the ideological science vs. the experimental science. Hed Hagan, 4, 1998 373-384. (Hebrew)
2. D. L. Share, I. Levin, G. Salomon, O. Lam, Y. Shimron, M. Shany, & E. Shatil.
On ‘Whole Language’: Position paper of researchers in the domain of literacy. Hed Hachinuch, 64, 12-13. 2000 (Hebrew)
3. I. Levin
The development of knowing the system of writing: Does early letter knowledge assist in reading and writing acquisition. Panim, 15, 2000, 90-99. (Face: Journal of Culture, Society and Education) (Hebrew)
4. I. Levin
Aleph: Letter names as a bridge between written and spoken word. Hed Hagan, 2000, 12-23. (Hebrew)
5. I. Levin (and a committee). Promoting written and oral language in preschool:
Towards emergent reading and writing. A report invited by the Israeli Ministry of Education. 2001. (Hebrew).
6. I. Levin & D. Ravid (2001). The development of linguistic literacy in children in a sociolinguistic perspective:
Acquiring linguistic features of written narrative register. Research Report submitted to Ford Foundations – Grants in Education.