The author discusses preliminary findings from a 22 year follow-up of adolescent and adult creative behavior of 220 persons from the original elementary student sample. Having a childhood future career image that persisted and having a mentor were consistently related to five criteria of creative achievement. (CL)

Author reviews both the major short-range and long-range predictive validity studies of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking and reports the main findings of a 12-year follow-up of a predictive validity study with high school students initiated in 1959. (Author/CB)

Followup responses of 1976 and 1977 participants in the Georgia Governor's Honors Program, a six-week summer program for gifted students, and analysis of learning styles suggested that Ss who report a right cerebral hemisphere or integrated learning style made significantly more applications of their new learnings than Ss with a left hemisphere…

As part of a follow-up study, gifted individuals were asked to name some incident in which one of their elementary teachers had encouraged creative behavior and to relate how this had made a difference in their careers; and 220 gifted Ss were tested to determine criteria for predicting creative achievement. (SB)

Initial findings and case studies of a 30-year follow-up of gifted students and adults suggest that characteristics such as love of one's work, persistence, purpose in life, love of challenge, high energy level, and a sense of mission may be more important in the long run than creative ability, intelligence, and high school achievement. (DB)

This book reports on a 40-year longitudinal study of factors that foster or inhibit creativity over time. Students in elementary grades were originally evaluated from 1958 to 1964. Follow-up in 1980 led to development of a Manifesto for Children which summarized conclusions in the form of guidance for aphorisms such as "Don't be afraid to fall in…