Merav Asulin

Research Analyst, Quality Assurance Team (Quality in Social Services Group)

Quality Assurance

Research Analyst, Quality Assurance Team, Quality in Social Services Group, Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute (MJB), Israel’s leading center for applied social research.

Merav Asulin has worked at MJB since 2022. Her main areas of research are quality assurance processes for the Early Childhood Centers, supervision of kindergartens and the development of standards for social services.

Prior to her employment at the Institute, Merav played a leading role in the mapping of needs for children and youth at risk as part of 360˚ – The National Program for Children and Youth at Risk in the Rehovot and Kiryat Ekron cluster of towns and administered the 360˚ program in that area for about a decade.

Merav has a bachelor’s degree in Education and Hebrew Literature from Ben Gurion University in the Negev, a master’s degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a second master’s degree in Anthropology and Sociology from Tel Aviv University.

Merav Asulin can be contacted by email at: [email protected]

Children, Youth and Young Adults

Quality Assurance

Operating Welfare-Education After-School Programs for Children at Risk in Times of Emergency as a Means to Strengthen Resilience: Literature Review
Merav Asulin, Ruth Baruj-Kovarsky
2024

This literature review addresses the importance of operating the welfare-education after-school programs, as part of strengthening the resilience of elementary school children at-risk and protecting their well-being in times of emergency.

Arab Population

Children, Youth and Young Adults

Disabilities

Evaluation of a Pilot Program for Promoting Inclusion in Preschools
Fida Nijim-Ektelat, Merav Asulin, Efrat Golovenzitz
2024

The report (in Hebrew) describes the programs which were implemented during the pilot year, the survey findings, and insights and strategies for the continued implementation of inclusion programs in preschools. 

Quality Assurance

Early Childhood Centers in the Inter-Ministerial Module in Emergencies
Merav Asulin, Hilla Dolev, Dvora Mintz, Mimi Ackerman, Iris Kronman
2023

The Early Childhood Center (ECC) is an anchor for its target population in routine times and in emergencies. The countrywide ECC network is led by the Early Childhood Division of the Ministry of Education in an inter-ministerial partnership along with 3600 – the National Program for Children and Youth at Risk. The network currently includes […]

Quality Assurance

Inspection of Early Childhood Education and care provision: An International Review
Dr. Lior Beserman Navon, Merav Asulin, Hilla Dolev, Dalia Ben Rabi
2023

The goal of this review is to learn about inspection approaches to early childhood educational and care services, and the implementation of these approaches in various countries. This, with the aim of providing knowledge that will support the development of an inspection system for the early childhood education and care systemin Israel – including an inspection policy (legislation, goals, and perceptions), inspection system structure, and inspection practices.

Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance in Early Childhood Centers (ECCs): Measurement Findings for 2022
Merav Asulin, Hilla Dolev
2022

The goals of the measurement were: (1) to incorporate a culture of quality measurement and assurance and thereby enable continuous learning in the ECCs; (2) to assist the ECC manager in evaluating the ECC performance and compliance with the standards required of a one-stop center that provides early childhood services for children and their parents; (3) to enhance the work done by the ECC in four areas: identification of needs, care services in response to needs, preventive enrichment, and collaboration with parents; (4) to examine the incorporation of activities developed in the ECCs to cope with the COVID-19 challenges. The latter is an additional goal set for the present measurement.