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Jonathan A. Plucker

Researcher at Johns Hopkins University

Publications -  216
Citations -  9969

Jonathan A. Plucker is an academic researcher from Johns Hopkins University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Creativity & Gifted education. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 204 publications receiving 8704 citations. Previous affiliations of Jonathan A. Plucker include University of Maine & University of Connecticut.

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

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make specific suggestions for conceptualizing and defining creativity to maximize its potential contributions to educational psychology, and make use of the fact that creativity appears to be an important component of problem-solving and other cognitive abilities, healthy social and emotional well-being.
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Replications in Psychology Research: How Often Do They Really Occur?

TL;DR: It was found that the majority of replications in psychology journals reported similar findings to their original studies (i.e., they were successful replications), however, replications were significantly less likely to be successful when there was no overlap in authorship between the original and replicating articles.
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Facts Are More Important Than Novelty Replication in the Education Sciences

TL;DR: This article analyzed the complete publication history of the current top 100 education journals ranked by 5-year impact factor and found that only 0.13% of education articles were replications, and that replications were significantly less likely to be successful when there was no overlap in authorship between the original and replicating articles.
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Smart People or Smart Contexts? Cognition, Ability, and Talent Development in an Age of Situated Approaches to Knowing and Learning

TL;DR: In this article, the concept of ability and talent development is theoretically grounded in five distinct, yet interrelated, notions: ecological psychology, situated cognition, distributed cognition, activity theory, and legitimate peripheral participation.
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Psychometric Approaches to the Study of Human Creativity

TL;DR: A thorough review of psychometric techniques for the study of creativity benefits both those individuals attempting to measure creativity and those individuals studying creativity via other techniques can be found in this paper, where the authors present a survey of the psychometric studies of creativity.