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Enhancing Creative Performance in College Students.
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Greer, Martin; Levine, Elaine – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1991
This study compared the relative effectiveness of fantasy induction, intrinsic motivation induction, and combined fantasy/intrinsic motivation induction upon creative writing performance of 100 freshmen college students. All three methods enhanced the creativity of the students' poetry writing, with the conjunctive approach exhibiting no more…
Descriptors: College Students, Creative Development, Creative Writing, Creativity
Academically Gifted Students' Use of Imagery for Creative Writing.
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Jampole, Ellen S.; And Others – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1994
This study evaluated the use of guided imagery practice to enhance creative writing with 43 academically gifted students (stratified as either high or low creativity) in grades 3 and 4. Groups receiving the guided imagery practice (regardless of original creativity level) generated more original writing, which contained more sensory descriptions…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Creative Writing, Creativity, Elementary Education
Learning Disabled Students' Composing under Three Methods of Text Production: Handwriting, Word Processing, and Dictation.
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MacArthur, Charles A.; Graham, Steve – Journal of Special Education, 1987
Eleven fifth- and sixth-grade learning-disabled students composed and revised stories using handwriting, dictation, and word processing. Dictated stories differed from other formats on product measures such as length, quality, and grammatical errors. Differences between handwritten and word-processed stories were found on the process measures of…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Dictation, Handwriting, Intermediate Grades
A Survey of Schools. Literacy in the Arts, An Imperative for New Jersey Schools.
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Garcia, Eduardo – 1989
This document presents the results of a survey of New Jersey schools districts examining the state of arts education in New Jersey schools. Data from the department of education's annual series of fall reports of vital educational statistics also was reviewed. The information from the survey was combined with the data in the fall report to provide…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Art Education, Creative Writing, Curriculum Development
Comparison of Writing Instructional Methods on Computer-Based Cooperative Learning for Mild Learning Disabled, Linguistic Minority and Non-Minority Junior High School Students. Final Report.
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Semmel, Melvyn, I.; And Others – 1989
This study investigated the collaborative interactions of junior high school boys (N=36) with learning disabilities while engaged in writing stories using a word processor. Half the subjects were of Anglo-American background and half of Mexican-American background. Each subject worked in two dyads, ethnically homogeneous and ethnically…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Cooperative Learning, Creative Writing, Ethnic Groups
Teaching of Writing: Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations Published in "Dissertation Abstracts International," July through December 1983 (Vol. 44 Nos. 1 through 6).
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ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 25 titles deal with a variety of topics including the following: (1) the effects of a heuristic prewriting model on eleventh-grade students; (2) a writing-across-the-curriculum program at a small liberal arts university; (3) a…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Annotated Bibliographies, Classroom Communication, Cognitive Processes