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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
  • 1990 - Review of Research Award, American Educational Research Association
  • 1989 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

James W. Stigler is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Social Sciences, Computer Science, and Psychology, with a notable focus on Education, Statistics and Probability, as well as Computer Science Applications.

Their scholarly work covers a range of topics such as Statistics Education and Methodologies, Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods, Online and Blended Learning, Online Learning and Analytics, Innovations in Educational Methods, Data Analysis with R, and Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Practicing Connections: A Framework to Guide Instructional Design for Developing Understanding in Complex Domains, 2020, Educational Psychology Review
  • Teaching Statistics and Data Analysis with R, 2022, Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education
  • Modeling First: Applying Learning Science to the Teaching of Introductory Statistics, 2020, Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education
  • Instructed Hand Movements Affect Students' Learning of an Abstract Concept From Video, 2021, Cognitive Science
  • The Better Book Approach for Education Research and Development, 2020, Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Ji Y. Son
  • Icy Zhang
  • Mary C. Tucker
  • Karen B. Givvin
  • Stacy T. Shaw

James W. Stigler's work has been published in venues such as the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, Educational Psychology Review, Cognitive Science, Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education, and Anxiety Stress & Coping.

The scientist has received recognition including being named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2008, receiving the Review of Research Award from the same association in 1990, and being a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1989.

Best Publications

  • The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom

    James W. Stigler;James Hiebert

  • A Knowledge Base for the Teaching Profession: What Would It Look Like and How Can We Get One?

    James Hiebert;Ronald Gallimore;James W. Stigler

  • The learning gap : why our schools are failing and what we can learn from Japanese and Chinese education

    Harold William Stevenson;James W. Stigler

  • Teaching Mathematics in Seven Countries: Results From the TIMSS 1999 Video Study

    James Hiebert;Ronald Gallimore;Helen Garnier;Karen Bogard Givvin

  • The TIMSS Videotape Classroom Study: Methods and Findings from an Exploratory Research Project on Eighth-Grade Mathematics Instruction in Germany, Japan, and the United States.

    James W. Stigler;Patrick Gonzales;Takako Kawanaka;Steffen Knoll

  • Cultural psychology : essays on comparative human development

    James W. Stigler;Richard A. Schweder;Gilbert Herdt

  • Understanding and Improving Classroom Mathematics Instruction: An Overview of the TIMSS Video Study

    James W. Stigler;James Hiebert

  • The role of lesson analysis in pre-service teacher education: an empirical investigation of teacher learning from a virtual video-based field experience

    Rossella Santagata;Claudia Zannoni;James W. Stigler

  • Mathematics achievement of Chinese, Japanese, and American children

    Harold W. Stevenson;Shin-Ying Lee;James W. Stigler

  • The laws of sympathetic magic: A psychological analysis of similarity and contagion.

    Paul Rozin;Carol Nemeroff

  • Using Video Surveys to Compare Classrooms and Teaching Across Cultures: Examples and Lessons From the TIMSS Video Studies

    James W. Stigler;Ronald Gallimore;James Hiebert

  • Improving Mathematics Teaching.

    James Hiebert;James W. Stigler

  • Measuring Usable Knowledge: Teachers’ Analyses of Mathematics Classroom Videos Predict Teaching Quality and Student Learning

    Nicole B. Kersting;Karen B. Givvin;Belinda J. Thompson;Rossella Santagata

  • Mathematics Teaching in the United States Today (and Tomorrow): Results From the TIMSS 1999 Video Study:

    James Hiebert;James W. Stigler;Jennifer K. Jacobs;Karen Bogard Givvin

  • Mathematics achievement of children in China and the United States.

    Harold W. Stevenson;Shin-ying Lee;Chuansheng Chen;Max Lummis

  • Teachers’ Analyses of Classroom Video Predict Student Learning of Mathematics: Further Explorations of a Novel Measure of Teacher Knowledge:

    Nicole B. Kersting;Karen B. Givvin;Francisco L. Sotelo;James W. Stigler

  • A Proposal for Improving Classroom Teaching: Lessons from the TIMSS Video Study

    James Hiebert;James W. Stigler

  • Cognitive performance and academic achievement of Japanese, Chinese, and American children.

    H W Stevenson;J W Stigler;S Y Lee;G W Lucker

  • “Mental abacus”: The effect of abacus training on Chinese children's mental calculation

    James W. Stigler

  • Reading disabilities: the case of Chinese, Japanese, and English.

    Harold W. Stevenson;James W. Stigler;G. William Lucker;Shin-ying Lee

  • The Learning Gap: Why our Schools are Failing and What We can Learn from Japanese and Chinese Education.

    Reuben G. Pierce;Harold W. Stevenson;James W. Stigler

  • Cultural psychology: Cultural conceptions of psychoanalysis

    James W. Stigler;Richard A. Schweder;Gilbert Herdt

Frequent Co-Authors

James Hiebert
James Hiebert University of Delaware
Harold W. Stevenson
Harold W. Stevenson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ronald Gallimore
Ronald Gallimore University of California, Los Angeles
Gilbert Herdt
Gilbert Herdt San Francisco State University
Keith J. Holyoak
Keith J. Holyoak University of California, Los Angeles
David A. Kenny
David A. Kenny Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority
Mutsumi Imai
Mutsumi Imai Keio University
Scott P. Johnson
Scott P. Johnson University of California, Los Angeles
Chuansheng Chen
Chuansheng Chen University of California, Irvine
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University

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