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

  by Jonathan A. Plucker (Editor), Carolyn M. Callahan (Editor)

  

  Critical Issues and Practices in Gifted Education: What the Research Says" is the definitive reference book for those searching for a summary and evaluation of the literature on giftedness and gifted education. The book presents almost 50 summaries of important topics in the field, providing relevant research and a guide to how the research applies to gifted education.
  Sample topics addressed include alternative assessment, counseling, early childhood, highly gifted students, homeschooling, parenting, and policy and advocacy. Each chapter adopts a rigorous, empirically grounded approach to inform the reader's understanding of the research in gifted education.
  Despite a century of research on giftedness, the enthusiasm and rhetoric surrounding various programs, models, and approaches often exceed the level of available support-or even contradict the available evidence. This book provides an objective assessment of the status of available knowledge in each area, offers guidance in the application of the research, and suggests areas of needed research.
  
  

Plucker, J., & Esping, A. (2014). Intelligence 101. New York: Springer.
Plucker, J., & Callahan, C. M. (Eds.). (2014). Critical issues and practices in gifted education: What the research says (2nd ed.). Waco, TX: Prufrock Press.
Plucker, J., & Callahan, C. M. (Eds.). (2008). Critical issues and practices in gifted education: What the research says. Waco, TX: Prufrock Press.
Kaufman, J., Plucker, J., & Baer, J. (2008). Essentials of creativity assessment. New York: Wiley.

Plucker, J. (2015). A critical response to “The psychology of creativity: A critical reading.” Creativity: Theories-Research-Applications, 1(2), 228-232. DOI: 10.15290/ctra.2014.01.02.09
Plucker, J., Esping, A., Kaufman, J. C., & Avitia, M. A. (2015). Creativity and intelligence. In S. Goldstein, D. Princiotta, & J. A. Naglieri (Eds.), Handbook of intelligence: Evolutionary theory, historical perspective, and current concepts (pp. 283-291). New York: Springer.
Esping, A., & Plucker, J. (2015). Alfred Binet and the children of Paris. In S. Goldstein, D. Princiotta, & J. A. Naglieri (Eds.), Handbook of intelligence: Evolutionary theory, historical perspective, and current concepts (pp. 153-161). New York: Springer.
Hartley, K.. A., & Plucker, J. (2014). Teacher use of creativity-enhancing activities in Chinese and American elementary classrooms. Creativity Research Journal, 26, 389-399. DOI: 10.1080/10400419.2014.961771. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NJUgPgEpe9FxFcSXA98I/full
Makel, M. C., & Plucker, J. (2014). Facts are more important than novelty: Replication in the education sciences. Educational Researcher, 43, 304-316. DOI: 10.3102/0013189X14545513.
Long, H., Plucker, J., Yu, Q., Ding, Y., & Kaufman, J. C. (2014). Research productivity and performance of journals in the creativity sciences: A bibliometric analysis. Creativity Research Journal, 26, 353-360. DOI: 10.1080/10400419.2014.929425. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/A5T3ujuntv2drEpzGFYx/full
Hardesty, J., McWilliams, J., & Plucker, J. (2014). Excellence gaps: What they are, why they are bad, and how smart contexts can address them … or make them worse. High Ability Studies, 25, 71-80. Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CxEN4szD3IFXscJ6xbNj/full
McWilliams, J., & Plucker, J. (2014). Brain cancer, meat glue, and shifting models of outstanding human behavior: Smart contexts for the 21st century. Talent Development and Excellence, 6(1), 47-55.
Plucker, J., & Callahan, C. M. (2014). Research on giftedness and gifted education: Status of the field and considerations for the future. Exceptional Children, 80, 390-406. DOI: 10.1177/0014402914527244.
Plucker, J., Qian, M., & Schmalensee, S. L. (2014). Is what you see what you really get? Comparison of scoring techniques in the assessment of real-world divergent thinking. Creativity Research Journal, 26, 135-143. DOI: 10.1080/10400419.2014.901023. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/gsnq4DiaCgUuqxB2r4gs/full
Harris, B., & Plucker, J. (2014). Achieving equity and excellence: The role of school mental health providers in shrinking excellence gaps. Gifted Child Today, 37(2), 110-116.
Prusinski, E. L., Ruddy, A., Plucker, J., & Cierniak, K. A. (2014). Chartering new waters: The Indianapolis mayoral transition and the charter school community. Educational Policy. DOI: 10.1177/0895904813510776
Makel, M. C., & Plucker, J. (2014). Creativity is more than novelty: Reconsidering replication as a creative act. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 8, 27-29.
Plucker, J., & Esping, A. (2014). Developing and maintaining a website for teaching and learning about intelligence. Intelligence, 42, 171-175. DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2013.08.007.
Plucker, J. (2014). Managing our expectations: What we can and can’t learn from innovations in teacher quality in other countries. In F. M. Hess & M. Q. McShane (Eds.), Teacher quality 2.0: Toward a new era in education reform (pp. 203-218). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Makel, M. C., & Plucker, J. (2014). School choice. In J. A. Plucker & C. M. Callahan (Eds.), Critical issues and practices in gifted education (2nd ed.; pp. 545-552). Waco, TX: Prufrock Press.
Burroughs, N., & Plucker, J. (2014). Excellence gaps. In J. A. Plucker & C. M. Callahan (Eds.), Critical issues and practices in gifted education (2nd ed.; pp. 255-265). Waco, TX: Prufrock Press.
Plucker, J. (2014). Review of Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 8, 262-263.