James W. Stigler | |
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Nationality | American |
Other names | Jim Stigler |
Occupation(s) | Psychologist, researcher, entrepreneur and author |
Academic background | |
Education | A.B., Religious Studies (1976) M.S., Education (1977) M.A., Developmental Psychology (1979) Ph.D., Developmental Psychology (1982) |
Alma mater | Brown University University of Pennsylvania University of Michigan |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of California,Los Angeles |
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 and a Fellow of the Precision Institute at National University,San Diego. [1]
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. [2] He is the co-author of two books,The Teaching Gap [3] and The Learning Gap. [4]
Stigler has received several awards for his research,including a Guggenheim Fellowship [5] and the QuEST award from the American Federation of Teachers. [6] He is a fellow with the American Psychological Society [7] and the American Educational Research Association,and a member of the National Academy of Education. [8]
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. [9]
Stigler joined the University of Chicago in 1983 as an Assistant Professor,becoming Associate Professor in 1989. In 1991,he left the University of Chicago and taught briefly at Dartmouth College before joining University of California,Los Angeles where he has remained since. [9] 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. [1] From 2008 to 2017,he was a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. [10]
In 2017,the 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 methodologies in higher education. [10]
From 1997 to 2001,Stigler served on the Board of Behavioral,Cognitive and Sensory Sciences at National Academy of Sciences. [9]
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 Pearson. Thereafter,he was appointed as the Senior Vice President of Research at Pearson Achievement Solutions and worked in this position until 2007. [11]
In 2013,he co-founded (with his son Charlie Stigler) Zaption,an education technology company in the video learning space. Zaption was acquired by Workday in 2016. [12]
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, [13] and two trade books:The Learning Gap (co-authored with Harold W. Stevenson) and The Teaching Gap (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 Germany,Japan,and the United States. [3] Most of his work has focused on mathematics teaching and learning. [13]
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 study comparing algebra teaching in Finland,Norway,Sweden,and the US. [14]
In later research,Stigler extended this work in various ways. In research with Nicole Kersting at the University of Arizona,Stigler focused on teacher knowledge and how it impacts instructional quality and student learning. A key innovation in this work was the development of the Classroom Video Analysis (CVA) assessment of teacher knowledge. [15]
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. [2]
In the late 2010s Stigler started a collaboration with Ji Son at California State University,Los Angeles. They worked on a theory-based course redesign of introductory statistics as a means of developing and testing what they called the practicing connections hypothesis. [2]
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 online textbook based on the approach in 2017,and the first paper to come from this collaboration in 2018. [16]
Some of 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 development of Carnegie's Statway program for community colleges. [17]
In August 2017,Stigler and his team at UCLA,with funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative,has been developing what he calls the Better Book 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 Better Book 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 Better Book approach is the introductory statistics book co-authored with Ji Son. [18] [19]
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