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Kelly C. Berthiaume; Selcuk Acar; Denis Dumas – Grantee Submission, 2024
Despite decades of research, the creative process remains to be fully understood, and most theories and empirical evidence focus on adults' creativity. Without understanding children's creative processes, the generalizability of these theories is questionable, which is crucial for teaching, learning, and parenting. However, studying children's…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Lubart, Todd; Zenasni, Franck; Barbot, Baptiste – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2013
This article presents the concept of creative potential and its link to talent. Psychological measures to assess creative potential in children and adolescents (EPoC) and adults (Creative Profiler) are then described. Implications for developing creativity are proposed.
Descriptors: Creativity, Talent, Creativity Tests, Creative Thinking
MEDNICK, MARTHA T.; MEDNICK, SARNOFF A. – 1965
RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED TO FOCUS ON AN EXAMINATION OF SEVERAL ASPECTS OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS AS WELL AS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TEST OF CREATIVE THINKING. THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES WERE (1) TO CONSTRUCT A TEST WHICH WILL MEASURE CREATIVITY AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL, (2) TO IDENTIFY THE VARIABLES THAT ARE EFFECTIVE IN INFLUENCING THE CREATIVE PROCESS,…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Creativity Research
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Pellegrini, A. D. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1981
To investigate the extent to which free play versus a sequenced questioning paradigm facilitated preschoolers' associative fluency, 36 children were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: free play, questioning, or control, and asked to articulate novel uses for conventional objects. Responses in the questioning condition were significantly…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Creative Development, Methods Research
Koch, Norman E. – 1986
Stressing language development as the prime component of all learning, this resource book presents suggestions to teachers to aid them in developing children's descriptive language. Basic to the described activities is the concept that vocabulary development is essentially concept development, requires a variety of experiences, and results from…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Choral Speaking, Classroom Techniques, Creative Development