Creativity is an essential skill that is at the heart of 21st-century education. Mobile phone use occupies considerable amounts of time in people's lives and may influence creativity. However, few studies have linked mobile phone dependence (MPD) to adolescents' domain-specific creativity (science and art). This study investigated the relationship…

Open-ended verbal creativity assessments are commonly administered in psychological research and in educational practice to elementary-aged children. Children's responses are then typically rated by teams of judges who are trained to identify original ideas, hopefully with a degree of inter-rater agreement. Even in cases where the judges are…

Drawing on Dewey's pragmatic perspective on talent cultivation and previous research on promoting employee creativity in industry, this study investigates student creativity performance in relation to teacher's encouragement, intrinsic motivation, and creative process engagement. Based on survey data collected from 140 vocational high school…

The relationship between adolescent extra-curricular activities and choice of graduate-education field was examined among students from three fields of study, science (n = 12), art (n = 12), and education (n = 14), using qualitative and quantitative methods. Results of profile analysis indicated that the different majors participated in…

The article lists and briefly describes 78 noncommercially available instruments useful in studying and measuring creative behavior and creative talent. In addition to a brief description of the instrument, each entry lists the author(s) and the journal or publication reporting on the instrument. (DLS)

The paper describes methods of identifying giftedness, instruments for assessing creativity, and the need for a single measure of many different kinds of talent. Development of the Khatena-Morse Multitalent Perception Inventory, which identifies talent in the areas of art, music, leadership, and creativity, is discussed. (JDD)

Discussed are sources of creative inspiration noted by composers such as Wagner, Strauss, and Puccini; and charted are discrete steps in creativity common to composers seen as producing works of genius. (IM)

A comparison was made of the implicit theories for scientific creativity, artistic creativity, everyday creativity, and noncreativity among a group of amateur and professional artists (N=36) and a control group (N=52). Groups did not differ significantly for number of characteristics or unique characteristics generated though specific…

Of 37 13- to 17-year-old students participating in a creative theater class, the ones with more experience scored significantly higher on creativity tests (Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking and Something About Myself Checklist) than their less experienced counterparts. (CL)

Discussed are some of the oppositions to creativity faced by females as a result of sex stereotyping by society. (IM)

A study of 115 undergraduate psychology students was undertaken to determine (1) if the average college student could fake the response pattern of a highly creative person or an uncreative drudge, (2) if a social desirability scale could detect fakers, and (3) if high creativity is fakable, whether positive traits are more easily faked than…

The author considers the manner in which children develop awareness of varieties of sound, pitch, and rhythm, and provides an outline for use in a class project in musical composition. (IM)

In a study comparing poetry written by 23 Ss and 24 controls, all students in introductory college speech courses, it was found that poetry written by the Ss who spent 15 minutes prior to writing the poetry in nonverbal activities of the encounter group type was rated higher than that of the controls on all three criteria of originality,…

One hundred thirty participants of a 1965 study were reevaluated for creative thinking. Results revealed that in the areas of art, writing, science, and generality of achievement, the creative group established in 1965 accomplished significantly more than the noncreatives over the 10-year period. (CL)

Validation studies of the initial group inventory for finding interests (GIFFI) I and II were carried out with 1,024 students (grades 6-12). Internal consistency, reliability, and validity of the scales, which measure personality and biographical characteristics associated with creativity were substantiated. (CL)