There are great opportunities and challenges to sharing large-scale mathematics classroom observation data. This Research Commentary describes the methodological opportunities and challenges and provides a specific example from a mathematics education research project to illustrate how the research questions and framework drove observational choices, and how these choices might constrain or limit sharing of data for other research purposes.
Marsha Ing, University of California, Riverside, 1207 Sproul Hall, Riverside, CA 92521; marsha.ing@ucr.edu