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Fard, Adnan Eshrati; Asgary, Ali; Sarami, Gholam Reza; Zarekar, Akram – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2014
The current study aimed to identify the appropriate method of teaching creativity through comparing computer-based instruction with problem-solving instruction. A sample of 50 male students studying in the second grade of junior high school was chosen and divided into two equal groups. Both groups filled out the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Problem Solving, Creativity, Scores
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Fard, Adnan Eshrati; Bahador, Ali; Moghadam, Mahsa Nazemi; Rajabi, Hooman; Moradi, Alinoor Noor – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2014
The current study aimed at investigating the possible impact of the problem-solving method of instruction on the exceptional students' creativity. A sample of 50 male exceptional (Mild intellectual disability) students studying in the third grade of junior high school was chosen and divided into two equal groups. Both groups filled out the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mild Mental Retardation, Creativity, Teaching Methods
Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor – 1975
Two studies are briefly reported here, one concerned with a method for locating high ability inner-city students, and the other dealing with a method of motivating low achieving inner-city students. Both studies drew on a population of black junior high school students, eighth and ninth graders, 14, 15, and 16 years of age. In the first study,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Arithmetic, Black Students
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Powers, Stephen; Barkan, Jerry H. – Psychology in the Schools, 1986
Correlations between the Standard Progressive Matrices test (SPM) and the California Achievement Test, Reading, Language, and Mathematics Tests were examined for 99 Hispanic and 93 non-Hispanic Caucasian seventh-grade students. All correlations were highly significant. Supports continued use of the SPM as a measure of nonverbal intellectual…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Ability, Concurrent Validity, Culture Fair Tests