Teaching gifted students to think creatively may follow the AUTA model: awareness of creativity, understanding of creativity, techniques of creativity, and finally, actualization--development of creative talents. (CL)

Factors affecting creativity are environment, personality and motivational traits, biographical characteristics, and creative abilities. Creativity stems from both nature and nurture. (SK)

Reprinted from "Studies in Adolescence II by Robert Grinder (Macmillan Company, 1969).

This study evaluated the hypothesis that affective components of creativity (attitudes, values, interest, motivations) may be strengthened in a university creativity course. A two-group, two-test design was used. For each class, the after-training creativity test scores were significantly higher than the before-training scores of the other class.…

A program designed to develop the creative potential of sixth, seventh and eighth grade students, incorporates ideas from a three-part model which conceptualizes the components of creativity as appropriate creative attitudes, various cognitive abilities, and idea-generating techniques. It attempts to increase students' awareness of, and…

This article discusses the outcomes of a conference on creativity that drew approximately 75 participants from various Arab universities. Papers focused on models of creativity development, factors related to strengthening and measuring creative abilities, family educational and social institutions roles, and fostering creative development in…

The new edition of this text provides updated views, events, and research findings, including a study of extraordinarily successful career women, more attention to gifted education in rural areas, counseling of gay students, and suicide prevention. Chapters have the following titles: (1) "Gifted Education: Matching Instruction with Needs"; (2)…