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In the late 2000s
Stigler started researching what community college students remember and understand about basic middle- and high-school mathematics, producing several papers (with Karen Givvin) that documented the fragile and fragmented nature of what remains of students’ K12 mathematics education.
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Throughout his career, Stigler has been involved in founding companies that tie into his research. In 1995, Stigler founded
Digital Lava, a multimedia technology company and took the company to IPO in 1999. He founded LessonLab, Inc. in 1998 and served as its CEO until 2003, when it was acquired by
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Precision Institute at National University, San Diego appointed him as a Fellow. At the Precision Institute, he has worked to develop and share research aligned with the Institute's mission of expanding data-driven approaches to identifying and applying effective personalized learning
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According to this hypothesis, extensive and deliberate practice applying core concepts and representations of a domain to increasingly complex problems throughout a course will result in knowledge that is more coherent, flexible and transferable. They published the first version of an interactive
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Through this work
Stigler became well known for his work in the analysis of classroom video, both cross-culturally and within cultures as a means of explaining within-culture variation in teachers’ Value Added Assessment (VAE) scores. He collaborated with a group of Scandinavian researchers on a
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Stigler's research has been focused on re-thinking how R&D for education is carried out. Part of this effort has been conducted in collaboration with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where he served as a Senior Fellow from 2008 to 2017 and contributed to the
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University of California, Los Angeles where he has remained since. He was appointed as Associate Dean for Research and Innovation in the UCLA Division of Social Sciences in 2011 and served in this position until 2016. From 2008 to 2017, he was a Senior Fellow at the
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Son, J. Y., Ramos, P., DeWolf, M., Loftus, W. & Stigler, J. W. (2018). Exploring the practicing-connections hypothesis: using gesture to support coordination of ideas in understanding a complex statistical concept. Cognitive
Research: Principles and Implications , 3:1
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Kersting, N. B., Givvin, K. B., Thompson, B. J., Santagata, R., & Stigler, J. W. (2012). Measuring usable knowledge: Teachers’ analyses of mathematics classroom videos predict teaching quality and student learning. American
Educational Research Journal, 49(3),
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Stigler, J. W. & Miller, K. F. (2018). Expertise and expert performance in teaching. In K. A. Ericsson, R. Hoffman, A. Kozbelt & A. M. Williams (Eds.) The
Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pages
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Stigler, J. W., Fernandez, C., and
Yoshida, M. (1996). Cultures of mathematics instruction in Japanese and American elementary classrooms. In T. Rohlen and G. Le Tendre (Eds.), Teaching and learning in Japan. New York: Cambridge University Press.
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Stigler's research is focused on understanding processes of teaching and learning, especially of mathematics and science. He has also conducted research on reshaping the role of research and development in education. He is the co-author of two books,
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Stigler, J.W., Gallimore, R., and 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, Volume 35, Number 2, Spring. Pages
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approach to education research and development, as well as a technology platform (CourseKata) designed to support the approach. Instead of researchers, curriculum developers, and instructors working in silos, the
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Stigler, J. W., & Hiebert, J. (2017). The culture of teaching: A global perspective. In A. Motoko & G. K. LeTendre (Eds.), International handbook of teacher quality and policy. New York: Routledge, pages
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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, Volume 2, No. 3,
250:(co-authored with James Hiebert). The latter book reported on the first of two large video surveys he directed in the 1990s, the TIMSS Video Studies, and compared eighth-grade mathematics teaching in
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In the beginning of his career, Stigler's research was focused primarily on cross-cultural comparison of teaching and learning, producing a number of studies and articles, and two trade books:
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Stigler, J.W., Givvin, K.B. & Thompson, B. (2010). What community college developmental mathematics students understand about mathematics. The MathAMATYC Educator, Volume 1, No. 3, 4-16.
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Stigler, J.W. & Thompson, B. (2009). Thoughts on creating, accumulating, and utilizing shareable knowledge to improve teaching. Elementary School Journal, Volume 109, No. 5, 442–457.
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Hiebert, J., Gallimore, R., and Stigler, J.W. (2002). A knowledge base for the teaching profession: What would it look like, and how can we get one? Educational Researcher, 31, 5, 3-15.
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approach involves an ongoing collaboration focused on incremental and continuous improvements to an online interactive textbook based on student-generated data. The first focus of the
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Richland, L. E., Stigler, J. W., & Holyoak, K. J. (2012). Teaching the conceptual structure of mathematics. Educational Psychologist, 47(3), 189–203.
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Stevenson, H. W., Lee, S. Y., and Stigler, J. W. (1986). Mathematics achievement of Chinese, Japanese and American children. Science, 231, 693–699.
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In 2013, he co-founded (with his son Charlie Stigler) Zaption, an education technology company in the video learning space. Zaption was acquired by
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Stigler, J. W. (1984). "Mental Abacus": The effect of abacus training on Chinese children's mental calculation. Cognitive Psychology, 16, 145–176.
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