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Overview

David J. Purpura is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research focus lies primarily within the social sciences, psychology, and mathematics, with a significant emphasis on education and developmental aspects of mathematical skills.

Their body of work spans several subfields, including education, statistics and probability, developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and clinical psychology. The main topics addressed in their research include cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, early childhood education and development, parental involvement in education, reading and literacy development, mathematics education and teaching techniques, child development and digital technology, and education, achievement, and giftedness.

David J. Purpura has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent outlets for their work include:

  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
  • Infant and Child Development
  • Journal of Numerical Cognition

Frequent coauthors collaborating with David J. Purpura include Sara A. Schmitt, Robert J. Duncan, Jimena Cosso, Alexa Ellis, and Jennifer K. Finders.

The following are recent publications highlighting aspects of their research:

  • Engaging caregivers and children in picture books: A family-implemented mathematical language intervention (2021), Journal of Educational Psychology
  • Examining the Factor Structure of the Home Mathematics Environment to Delineate Its Role in Predicting Preschool Numeracy, Mathematical Language, and Spatial Skills (2020), Frontiers in Psychology
  • Next directions in measurement of the home mathematics environment: An international and interdisciplinary perspective (2021), Journal of Numerical Cognition
  • Why do early mathematics skills predict later mathematics and reading achievement? The role of executive function (2021), Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • When do preschoolers learn specific mathematics skills? Mapping the development of early numeracy knowledge (2020), Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Best Publications

  • Early literacy and early numeracy: the value of including early literacy skills in the prediction of numeracy development.

    David J. Purpura;Laura E. Hume;Darcey M. Sims;Christopher J. Lonigan

  • Evaluating the components of an emergent literacy intervention for preschool children at risk for reading difficulties.

    Christopher J. Lonigan;David J. Purpura;Shauna B. Wilson;Patricia M. Walker

  • Foundations of mathematics and literacy: The role of executive functioning components

    David J. Purpura;Sara A. Schmitt;Colleen M. Ganley

  • Mathematics and language: Individual and group differences in mathematical language skills in young children

    David J. Purpura;Erin E. Reid

  • Examining the Relations between Executive Function, Math, and Literacy during the Transition to Kindergarten: A Multi-Analytic Approach.

    Sara A. Schmitt;G. John Geldhof;David J. Purpura;Robert Duncan

  • The Transition from Informal to Formal Mathematical Knowledge: Mediation by Numeral Knowledge.

    David J. Purpura;Arthur J. Baroody;Christopher J. Lonigan

  • Working memory and language: skill-specific or domain-general relations to mathematics?

    David J. Purpura;Colleen M. Ganley

  • The nature of preschool phonological processing abilities and their relations to vocabulary, general cognitive abilities, and print knowledge

    Christopher J. Lonigan;Jason L. Anthony;Beth M. Phillips;David J. Purpura

  • Causal Connections Between Mathematical Language and Mathematical Knowledge: A Dialogic Reading Intervention

    David J. Purpura;Amy R. Napoli;Elizabeth A. Wehrspann;Zachary S. Gold

  • Informal Numeracy Skills The Structure and Relations Among Numbering, Relations, and Arithmetic Operations in Preschool

    David J. Purpura;Christopher J. Lonigan

  • The home literacy and numeracy environment in preschool: Cross-domain relations of parent-child practices and child outcomes.

    Amy R. Napoli;David J. Purpura

  • The nonlinear relations of the approximate number system and mathematical language to early mathematics development.

    David J. Purpura;Jessica A. R. Logan

  • Understanding the Home Math Environment and Its Role in Predicting Parent Report of Children's Math Skills.

    Sara Ann Hart;Colleen M Ganley;David J. Purpura

  • Fostering alphabet knowledge development: a comparison of two instructional approaches

    Shayne B. Piasta;David J. Purpura;Richard K. Wagner

  • Why Do Early Mathematics Skills Predict Later Reading? The Role of Mathematical Language.

    David J. Purpura;Jessica A. R. Logan;Brenna Hassinger-Das;Amy R. Napoli

  • Early Numeracy Assessment: The Development of the Preschool Numeracy Scales.

    David J Purpura;Christopher J Lonigan

  • Using a Brief Preschool Early Numeracy Skills Screener to Identify Young Children With Mathematics Difficulties

    David J. Purpura;Erin E. Reid;Michael D. Eiland;Arthur J. Baroody

  • Age‐related differences in the relation between the home numeracy environment and numeracy skills

    Rebecca J. Thompson;Amy R. Napoli;David J. Purpura

  • Relations between preschoolers' mathematical language understanding and specific numeracy skills.

    Caroline Byrd Hornburg;Sara A. Schmitt;David J. Purpura

  • Using block play to enhance preschool children’s mathematics and executive functioning: A randomized controlled trial

    Sara A. Schmitt;Irem Korucu;Amy R. Napoli;Lindsey M. Bryant

  • Early Numeracy and Literacy: Untangling the Relation Between Specific Components

    David J. Purpura;Amy R. Napoli

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher J. Lonigan
Christopher J. Lonigan Florida State University
Megan M. McClelland
Megan M. McClelland Oregon State University
Sara A. Hart
Sara A. Hart University of Waterloo
G. John Geldhof
G. John Geldhof Oregon State University
Pamela E. Davis-Kean
Pamela E. Davis-Kean University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jason L. Anthony
Jason L. Anthony University of South Florida
Richard K. Wagner
Richard K. Wagner Florida State University
Natasha J. Cabrera
Natasha J. Cabrera University of Maryland, College Park
Camilla Gilmore
Camilla Gilmore Loughborough University
Beth M. Phillips
Beth M. Phillips Florida State University

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