Courses Taught

EDU 561 Introduction to Gifted Education

EDU 562 Social-Emotional Development of Gifted Students

EDU 563 Curriculum for Gifted Education

EDU 564 Gifted Education Program Planning and Evaluation  

EDU 501 Curriculum Desgin, Implementation, and Evaluation

EDU 510 Developmental and Learning Sciences

EDU 514 Education Across Cultures

EDU 520 Educational Research

EDU 221 Education Psychology and Measurement

EDU 222 Educational Psychology and Child Development

Research Interests

Psychology of talent development and creativity; creativity and classroom applications; science talent development; systems of beliefs in gifted education; rural gifted education; inequities in advanced academics

Projects

Current/Active Work

• Teacher understandings and knowledge of creativity myths and facts
• Systematic review of measurement for creative self-efficacy
• Connections of creativity and multimodal literacy
• Conceptions of giftedness and gifted education Q-sort 
• Higher level structure of creative activities
• Preservice teachers' experiences of creative micromoments

Selected Publications

Recent and upcoming publications:

Puryear, J. S. (in press). Seeing the creativity in talent development processes. In J. Katz-Buonincontro & T. Kettler (Eds.), Oxford International Handbook of Creativity and Education (pp. xxx-xxx). Oxford University Press.

Rodriguez, R. M, Silvia, P. J., Kaufman, J. C., Reiter-Palmon, R., & Puryear, J. S. (2023). Taking inventory of the Creative Behavior Inventory: An item-response theory analysis of the CBI. Creativity Research Journal (online first). doi.org:10.1080/10400419.2023.2183322 

Puryear, J. S., & Plucker, J. A. (2022). Categorization of place-based, postsecondary learning experiences for rural students. Ascendium Group. https://www.ascendiumphilanthropy.org/assets/Uploads/Resources/Files/Postsecondary-Place-Based-Education-Media-Report-June-2022.pdf 

Puryear, J. S., & Lamb, K. (2020). Defining creativity: How far have we come since Plucker, Beghetto, & Dow?. Creativity Research Journal, 32(3), 206-214. doi:10.1080/10400419.2020.1821552

Recent and upcoming presentations:

Puryear, J. S., & Lamb, K. N. (2023, November). Combatting creativity myths in gifted education. Paper accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the National Association for Gifted Children, Orlando, FL.

Kettler, T., Dai, D. Y., & Puryear, J. S. (2023, November). Emerging conceptions of talent development, creativity, and curriculum. Paper accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the National Association for Gifted Children, Orlando, FL. 

Puryear, J. S., & Lamb, K. N. (2023, August). Fact or fiction: Creativity beliefs of practicing teachers. Poster accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC. 

Puryear, J. S., & Lamb, K. N. (2023, June). Examining the creativity and knowledge of practicing teachers. Poster accepted for presentation at annual UK Creativity Researchers' Conference (online). 

Puryear, J. S., & Plucker, J. A. (2023, April). Characterizing place-based learning experiences in postsecondary education. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL. 

Puryear, J. S. (2022, March). Building creativity skills with things you already do. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Montana Association for Gifted and Talented Education, Great Falls, MT. 

Puryear, J. S. (2022, November). Applying gifted education best practices in rural settings. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Gifted Children, Indianapolis,  IN.

Plucker, J. A., Acar, S., Makel, M., Organisciak, P., Dumas, D., Puryear, J. S., Lee, L. E., & Meyer, M. S. (2022, November). Creativity assessment: Recent advances and future directions. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Gifted Children, Indianapolis, IN.

Puryear, J. S. (2022, September). Relating creativity and personality: A meta-analysis. Invited paper presented at the monthly symposium of the International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation, Online.

Publications

Full citations and publications record available via Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=C3ZjC44AAAAJ 

Affiliations

National Association for Gifted Children

American Educational Research Association

American Psychological Association