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James W. Stigler is Professor of Psychology at UCLA , Director of the
TIMSS video studies, and founder and CEO of LessonLab. He is co-author
of two recent books: The Teaching Gap (with James Hiebert, Free Press,
1999) and The Learning Gap (with Harold Stevenson, Simon & Schuster,
1992). He received his A.B. from Brown University in 1976, a Masters in
Education from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977, and a Ph.D. in
Developmental Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1982.
Before moving to Los Angeles in 1991, he served eight years on the
faculty of the University of Chicago. He has received numerous awards
for his research, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1989 and the
QuEST award from the American Federation of Teachers in 1995. Dr.
Stigler is best known for his observational work in classrooms, and has
pioneered the use of multimedia technology for the study of classroom
instruction.
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