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The Teaching Gap Stigler, J.W. and Hiebert, J. (1999) "The Teaching Gap". The Teaching Gap: Best ideas from the world's teachers for improving education in the classroom. New YorK: Free Press. Order book >

This is the official report on the TIMSS 1995 Video Study from the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education.

Stigler, J. W., Gonzales, P. Kawanaka, T., Knoll, S., & Serrano, A. (1999). The TIMSS 1995 Videotape Classroom Study: Methods and findings from an exploratory research project on eighth-grade mathematics instruction in Germany, Japan, and the United States. NCES (1999-074), U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.      

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Understanding and Improving Classroom Mathematics Instruction: An Overview of the TIMSS 1995 Video Study

This article provides a brief overview of the methods and findings of the TIMSS 1995 video study.

Stigler, J. W. & Hiebert, J. (1997). Understanding and improving mathematics instruction: An overview of the TIMSS Video Study. Phi Delta Kappan, 79(1), 14-21.

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

This article presents results from the video study regarding teachers' perceptions of the effects of recent reforms on their practice. The authors propose a research and development system for improving teaching that builds on the Japanese process of lesson study.

Hiebert, J., & Stigler, J. (2000). A proposal for improving classroom teaching: Lessons from the TIMSS Video Study. Elementary School Journal, 101(1), 3-20.

Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to the Analysis of Video Data on Classroom Teaching (175 kb)

This article discusses the usefulness of integrating quantitative and qualitative analyses, and then describes how large-scale video surveys can enable a cyclical process of generating and validating discoveries.

Jacobs, J., Kawanaka, T., & Stigler, J. (1999). Integrating qualitative and quantitative approaches to the analysis of video data on classroom teaching. InternationalJournal of Educational Research, 31, 717-724.

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Teachers’ Use of Questions in Eighth-Grade Mathematics Classrooms

Kawanaka, T., & Stigler, J. W. (1999). Teachers’ use of questions in eighth-grade mathematics classrooms in Germany, Japan, and the United States. Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 1(4), 255-278.

The TIMSS Videotape Study

The authors argue that cultural "scripts" have an enormous influence on what happens in the classroom. And, they say, we ignore these scripts at our peril.  The article describes the TIMSS 1995 Video Study of eighth-grade math classes in the U.S., Germany, and Japan and the surprising differences in how lessons were organized and what teachers expected of their students.

Stigler, J. W. and Hiebert, J. (1998). The TIMSS Videotape Study. American Educator, 22 (4), 7; 43-45.

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