Yoav Bergner
Director Of Assessment Development at New York University
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolYoav Bergner is a leader in learning sciences and assessment development with 13 years of experience bridging psychometrics, educational technology, and classroom practice. Currently Director of Assessment Development at RAMA and an Associate Professor at NYU Steinhardt, he develops methods that make assessment data actionable for design, particularly in Makerspaces, online social learning, physics education, and collaborative problem solving. He co-developed CPSX, an Open edX extension for real-time small-group discussion, demonstrating a knack for translating research into practical learning tools. Trained as a physicist (PhD, MIT), he combines rigorous quantitative modeling with hands-on maker and curriculum work, a blend reflected in past roles from ETS research scientist to maker-artist endeavors. Colleagues value him for turning complex measurement challenges into usable interventions that improve group learning dynamics.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Physics, Ph.D., Physics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyA.B., Physics, A.B., Physics at Harvard University
hebrew, french
Github Skills (5)
openedx5
chat4
hardware4
security4
usb3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
IEDMS/cfirt
Jul 2012 - Jun 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 4 pushes in 2 years 11 months
ybergner/carpe-datum
May 2019 - Dec 2024
Contributions:240 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 8 months
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