This interview with David Perkins, codirector of Harvard's Project Zero and author of "The Mind's Best Work," focuses on the links between creative and critical thinking styles. Exercises in Venezuela's Project Intelligence are also discussed, along with possible curricular approaches to teaching skills. (11 references) (MLH)

In a study of the relationship between children and parents' scores on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT), 65 fifth-grade children and 121 parents were administered the TTCT. There were no significant correlations between scores for mothers and children. (Author)

To study the effects of guided fantasy on the creative thinking of students, 51 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students were assigned to one of two groups (relaxation techniques and guided fantasy or an arithmetic lesson). (PHR)

Age trends in ideational fluency were investigated by subjecting English schoolchildren to three tests. Consistent increases with age were found on the verbal divergent and Draw a Man tests but not on the figural divergent test. Sex did not significantly affect the results. (Author/MJL)

The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking: Verbal Form A were given to 39 fifth-grade children in a rural elementary school and scored for fluency, flexibility, and originality. (Author/MP)

This study compared the creative thinking areas of flexibility and fluency of fifth grade Japanese and American children. A new instrument for cross-cultural settings, consisting of ten flexibility items and six fluency items, was constructed and administered to fifth graders. The results indicated that there were no differences in fluency between…

Partial correlation procedures were used to compare the reliability of ideational creativity in 225 academically gifted and nongifted fifth to eighth grade children. The divergent thinking interitem and intertest correlations of the gifted children were significantly larger than the nongifted. Ideational originality was reliable only in the…

Children, ages 7 and 11, were asked to manipulate strips of cardboard into outlines of ideas and objects. Responses were categorized to show if novel configurations appeared and developed and if this phenomenon was a function of creative thinking as measured by Torrance's Figural Test, Form B. (Author/SJL)

This study measured the interrelationships among three creativity measures: student-teacher ratings of each other's performance, subtests from the Torrance Tests of Crative Thinking, and judges' ratings of student-produced classroom products. Data were obtained from 24 gifted fifth-grade boys and girls. Data analysis indicated that girls were…

Elementary school-aged children (N=569) from 11 countries were administered the Test for Creative Thinking-Drawing Production. The 11 countries had distinctly different political, economic, and educational systems. The test was discovered to be culture-fair, culture-sensitive, gender-fair, and gender-sensitive. (Author/JDD)

Two studies are reported that measure the long-term stability of performance assessments involving story-writing and poetry-writing (involving grade four and five students) and story-telling (involving grade two students). The long-term stability of these assessments compares favorably with stability figures for other creativity tests. (Author/JDD)

Waldorf Education, founded by Rudolf Steiner in 1919, is based on the philosophy of critical idealism, in which teachers assist in the natural unfolding of children's preexistent possibilities. But because there has been little research on Waldorf Education, few data have been gathered on the effectiveness of its teaching methods and…

The relation between field independence-dependence and creativity was investigated in 40 fourth graders equally divided by sex. The measures used were the Children's Embedded Figures Test, several verbal and figural subtests from the Torrance Tests of Creativity, and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test. No significant Pearson correlations were…

The validity and reliability of the Yugoslavian (Beograd) version of the Hungarian adaptation of the Torrance Divergent Capacities Test (HAT-DAT) were tested, with a view toward improving the methodology of scoring the creative abilities test and determining standards for Yugoslavia. The test, based on the work of J. P. Guilford (1977), examines…

The study determined whether using outdoor experiences as a teaching medium increased the level of creative thought for sixth grade children. Four factors of creativity were measured: figural fluency, figural flexibility, figural originality, and figural elaboration. Two groups of sixth grade pupils, one experimental (with 30 children)and the…