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Qaddour, Kinana – English Teaching Forum, 2017
This activity uses podcasts to model narrative writing techniques. The challenges students face when exercising narrative writing skills are unique when compared to those of persuasive and expository writing; my students have repeatedly expressed their qualms with articulating experiences that engage their audience. Although students have…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Audio Equipment, Information Dissemination, Writing Skills
Kettler, Todd; Bower, Janessa – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2017
Creativity and giftedness are frequently associated, and schools may use measures of creativity for identifying gifted and talented students. The researchers examined three aspects of elementary student creativity: (a) the relationship between a teacher's rating of student creativity and rubric-scored student writing samples, (b) group differences…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Creativity, Teacher Evaluation, Gender Differences
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Price, Deborah Ann; Yates, Gregory C. R. – Educational Psychology, 2015
In the course of normal classroom lessons, 103 students (median 11.10 years) were asked to spend 15 min writing "anything you can think of" about the number 50 on a blank page. The products were independently scored by 2 specialist art teachers and 2 specialist mathematics teachers on criteria relevant to their specialisations.…
Descriptors: Creativity, Writing Assignments, Creative Writing, Art Teachers
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Sahbaz, Namik Kemal; Duran, Gozde – Educational Research and Reviews, 2011
The aim of this research is to search the effect of the cluster method on the creative writing skill of 6th grade students. In this paper, the students of 6-A, studying at Ulas Primary School in 2010-2011 academic year, were divided into two groups as experiment and control. Taking into consideration the various variants, pre-test and last-test…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Pretests Posttests
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McDaniel, Ernest; Pietras, Thomas – Research in the Teaching of English, 1972
The results of a creative writing survey among sixth grade disadvantaged pupils indicate that conventional test scores help identify given levels of developed skills, and such skills are related to effective writing. (Author/NL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing, Correlation, Creative Writing
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Moore, Michael T. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1985
A study was conducted to determine whether there is a relationship between problem discovery and the assessed originality of the written product, and to determine whether problem-solving behavior is observable in student writers. Results indicated a relationship between problem finding and the originality of the product. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Creative Development, Creative Writing
Bracey, Gerald – Electronic Learning, 1992
Discussion of creativity in writing focuses on a study of eighth graders that compared results of an expository writing assignment completed on word processors with the assignment using pencil and paper. Students' ability levels are considered, and revision processes are examined. (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Comparative Analysis, Creative Writing, Creativity
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Yang, Jie Chi; Ko, Hwa Wei; Chung, I. Ling – Educational Technology & Society, 2005
This study reports the development and evaluation of a web-based interactive writing environment designed for elementary school students. The environment includes three writing themes, "story pass on", "story chameleon" and "thousand ideas", to encourage reading comprehension, creativity and problem-solving skills of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Socialization, Creative Writing
Hamilton, Mary, Ed.; Withnall, Alexandra, Ed. – 1995
The following conference papers cover a wide spectrum of issues in continuing education: "Introduction" (Katherine Leni Oglesby); "Footprints in the Sand?--The Legacy of the University Funding Council's Support for Research in Continuing Education" (Chris Duke); "Thinking Fragments: Learning, Life Histories and the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning