James W. Stigler
| James W. Stigler | |
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| Born | |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| Other names | Jim Stigler |
| 💼 Occupation | Psychologist, researcher, entrepreneur and author |
James W. Stigler is an American psychologist, researcher, entrepreneur and author. He is distinguished professor in the Department of Psychology at University of California, Los Angeles.
Stigler's research is focused on understanding processes of teaching and learning, especially of mathematics and science. He is the co-author of two books, The Teaching Gap and The Learning Gap.
Stigler is the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a fellow with the Association for Psychological Science and the American Educational Research Association, and a member of the National Academy of Education.
Education
Stigler received an A.B. in Religious Studies from Brown University in 1976 and an M.S. in Education from University of Pennsylvania in 1977. Later, he received an M.A. in Developmental Psychology in 1979 and a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology in 1982, both from University of Michigan.[1]
Career and research
Stigler joined the University of Chicago in 1983. In 1991, he left the University of Chicago and joined University of California, Los Angeles.[1] In 2017, the Precision Institute at National University, San Diego appointed him as a fellow.[2]
He founded LessonLab, which was acquired by Pearson in 2003[3] and co-founded Zaption, an education technology company in the video learning space.[4]
Stigler's research has focused on cross-cultural comparison of teaching and learning, specifically Mathematics[5] He is the author of the books The Learning Gap (co-authored with Harold W. Stevenson)[6] and The Teaching Gap (co-authored with James Hiebert). The latter book reported on the video surveys he directed in the 1990s, the TIMSS Video Studies, and compared eighth-grade mathematics teaching in Germany, Japan, and the United States.[7]
Some of Stigler's research has been focused on how research and development for education is carried out. In this area he contributed to the development of Carnegie's Statway program for community colleges.[8]
Awards and honors
- 1989 - Boyd R. McCandless Young Scientist Award, Division 7 of the American Psychological Association[9]
- 1989 - 1990 - Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences[10]
- 1989 - 1990 - Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation[11]
- 2003 - Member, National Academy of Education[3]
- 2013 - Fellow, Association for Psychological Science[12]
Selected publications
Books
- The Learning Gap: Why Our Schools Are Failing and What We Learn from Japanese and English Education. 1992. Search this book on
- The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas From the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom. 1999. Search this book on
- Introduction to Statistics: A Modeling Approach. 2017. Search this book on
Selected articles
- Stigler, J. W. (1984). ""Mental Abacus": The effect of abacus training on Chinese children's mental calculation". Cognitive Psychology. 16 (2): 145–176. doi:10.1016/0010-0285(84)90006-9.
- Stevenson, H. W.; Lee, S. Y.; Stigler, J. W. (1986). "Mathematics achievement of Chinese, Japanese and American children". Science. 231 (4739): 693–699. Bibcode:1986Sci...231..693S. doi:10.1126/science.3945803. PMID 3945803.
- Stigler, J. W.; Gallimore, R.; Hiebert, J. (2000). "Using video surveys to compare classrooms and teaching across cultures: Examples and lessons from the TIMSS and TIMSS-R video studies". Educational Psychologist. 35 (2): 87–100. doi:10.1207/S15326985EP3502_3.
- Stigler, J. W.; Thompson, B. (2009). "Thoughts on creating, accumulating, and utilizing shareable knowledge to improve teaching". Elementary School Journal. 109 (5): 442–457. doi:10.1086/596995.
- Givvin, K. B.; Stigler, J. W.; Thompson, B. (2011). "What community college developmental mathematics students understand about mathematics, part 2: The interviews". The MathAMATYC Educator. 2 (3): 4–18.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Jim Stigler". Conference on Sustainability of Systemic Reform 2003. Archived from the original on 25 March 2025. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
- ↑ "Psychology professor named fellow at National University". UCLA.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Our Members". National Academy of Education. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
- ↑ "Zaption: Bringing YouTube to Life in the Classroom". The EdTech Roundup.
- ↑ Spiegel, Alix (12 November 2012). "Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning". NPR.org.
- ↑ The Learning Gap: Why our schools are failing and what we can learn from Japanese and Chinese education. OCLC 443373208. Search this book on
- ↑ Brown, Michael L. (2001). "Book Review: The Teaching Gap by James W. Stigler and James Hiebert". Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal. 1 (24): 47–50. doi:10.5642/hmnj.200101.24.16. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
- ↑ "Learning Our Way Into a Better System". Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. July 31, 2013.
- ↑ "Boyd McCandless Award". American Psychological Association Division 7. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
- ↑ "James W. Stigler". Stanford University. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
- ↑ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | James W. Stigler". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 2022-06-29. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
- ↑ "Fellows Directory". Association for Psychological Science. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
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