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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Jonathan A. Plucker is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily focusing on psychology and social sciences with a notable emphasis on education and cognitive development.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Within these broader categories, Plucker's work is concentrated in the following subfields:

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Education
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Their research topics cover a range of educational and psychological areas such as:

  • Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
  • School Choice and Performance
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation
  • Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
  • Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities

Jonathan A. Plucker has published articles in multiple academic venues with repeated contributions to:

  • Gifted Child Today
  • Phi Delta Kappan
  • Gifted Child Quarterly
  • Journal for the Education of the Gifted
  • AERA Open

Selected recent publications illustrate the focus of their work and include:

  • Replication is important for educational psychology: Recent developments and key issues, 2021, Educational Psychologist
  • The evidence base for advanced learning programs, 2020, Phi Delta Kappan

Frequent collaborators contributing alongside Plucker include:

  • Melanie S. Meyer
  • Matthew C. Makel
  • Scott J. Peters
  • Julia Link Roberts
  • Carolyn M. Callahan

Recognition for their work includes several fellowships:

  • Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), 2009
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2011
  • Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, 2017

Best Publications

  • Why isn't creativity more important to educational psychologists? Potentials, pitfalls, and future directions in creativity research.

    Jonathan A. Plucker;Ronald A. Beghetto;Gayle T. Dow

  • Psychometric Approaches to the Study of Human Creativity

    Jonathan A. Plucker;Joseph S. Renzulli

  • Replications in Psychology Research: How Often Do They Really Occur?

    Matthew C. Makel;Jonathan A. Plucker;Boyd Hegarty

  • Essentials of Creativity Assessment

    James C. Kaufman;Jonathan A. Plucker;John Baer

  • Smart People or Smart Contexts? Cognition, Ability, and Talent Development in an Age of Situated Approaches to Knowing and Learning

    Sasha A. Barab;Jonathan A. Plucker

  • Facts Are More Important Than Novelty Replication in the Education Sciences

    Matthew C. Makel;Jonathan A. Plucker

  • Assessment of Creativity

    Jonathan A. Plucker;Matthew C. Makel

  • Why Creativity Is Domain General, Why It Looks Domain Specific, and Why the Distinction Does Not Matter.

    Jonathan A. Plucker;Ronald A. Beghetto

  • Is the Proof in the Pudding? Reanalyses of Torrance's (1958 to Present) Longitudinal Data

    Jonathan A. Plucker

  • Development and Psychometric Integrity of a Measure of Ideational Behavior

    Mark A. Runco;Jonathan A. Plucker;Woong Lim

  • Beware of Simple Conclusions: The Case for Content Generality of Creativity

    Jonathan A. Plucker

  • Advancing Creativity Theory and Research: A Socio‐cultural Manifesto

    Vlad Petre Glaveanu;Michael Hanchett Hanson;John Baer;Baptiste Barbot

  • Mind the (Other) Gap! The Growing Excellence Gap in K-12 Education.

    Jonathan A. Plucker;Nathan Burroughs;Ruiting Song

  • Research on Giftedness and Gifted Education Status of the Field and Considerations for the Future

    Jonathan A. Plucker;Carolyn M. Callahan

  • The death of creativity measurement has been greatly exaggerated: Current issues, recent advances, and future directions in creativity assessment

    Jonathan A. Plucker;Mark A. Runco

  • Assessment of Creativity

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  • Preparation versus practice: How do teacher education programs and practicing teachers align in their use of technology to support teaching and learning?

    Anne T. Ottenbreit-Leftwich;Thomas A. Brush;Jesse Strycker;Susie Gronseth

  • Looking outside and inside: Self-Concept Development of Gifted Adolescents:

    Jonathan A. Plucker;Vicki B. Stocking

  • Identifying and Assessing Creativity as a Component of Giftedness

    James C. Kaufman;Jonathan A. Plucker;Christina M. Russell

  • We Recruit Them, But Then What? The Educational and Psychological Experiences of Academically Talented Undergraduates

    Anne N. Rinn;Jonathan A. Plucker

  • The Relationship Between School Climate Conditions and Student Aspirations

    Jonathan A. Plucker

  • Critical Issues and Practices in Gifted Education: What the Research Says.

    Jonathan A. Plucker;Carolyn M. Callahan

Frequent Co-Authors

James C. Kaufman
James C. Kaufman University of Connecticut
Ronald A. Beghetto
Ronald A. Beghetto Arizona State University
Mark A. Runco
Mark A. Runco Southern Oregon University
John Baer
John Baer Rider University
Dean Keith Simonton
Dean Keith Simonton University of California, Davis
D. Betsy McCoach
D. Betsy McCoach University of Connecticut
Robert J. Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg Cornell University
Shalom H. Schwartz
Shalom H. Schwartz Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Todd Lubart
Todd Lubart Université Paris Cité
Giovanni Emanuele Corazza
Giovanni Emanuele Corazza University of Bologna

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