Dr. Dominique-Esther Seroussi is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education of Tel Hai Academic College in, Israel. Since thirty years, she is teaching courses in chemistry, physics, meteorology and didactics of sciences, and working as a mentor for preservice teachers. Dr. Seroussi is an alumni of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in France where she earned her doctorate in chemistry, and she additionally graduated with a B.A. in social psychology from the Sorbonne in Paris and a M.Ed. from Harvard University. In the field of education, she worked as a research assistant at Harvard University and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. At Ohalo College, she served in various positions including dean of the science teaching department and director of the school of technicians, and she is continuously engaged with curriculum writing and academic management. Dr. Seroussi's research focuses on affective and social factors influencing the learning process. This includes subjects as self-regulation in learning, parental influence on academic behaviour, peer learning and peer assessment, influence of learning environments, and psycho-social correlates of scientific misconceptions and beliefs. As her research method, Dr. Seroussi joins qualitative data collection and analysis to the statistical analysis of quantitative measures.