This study asks (1) are teachers able to identify creative children in their classrooms at better than chance level, (2) does this ability change with grade level, and (3) does creativity itself increase as a function of grade level in school? The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking--Circles Subtest--was administered to 455 first, second, and…

This annotated list of Educational Testing Service research reports includes 1) investigations in which creativity is the major subject of the study, 2) ones in which creativity is a variable, and 3) studies concerned with the development of methods or instruments for use in creativity research. Included are studies, or phases of studies,…

By employing an analytic method developed by the authors entitled the Inventory of Dramatic Behavior, this project set out to accomplish the following goals: (1) to provide a developmental profile of dramatic behavior of Florida elementary school children, (2) to correlate such data with previous results from a New York City sample, and (3) to…

High- and low-creative male and female college students were asked to devise humorous captions to cartoons containing sexual, aggressive, or neutral themes. Results indicate that males generated funnier captions than females to sexual and aggressive stimuli but not to neutral stimuli. Moreover, creativity was positively related to humor…

Creativity of 72 third-graders from open and structured classes was measured in relation to anxiety level. Low anxiety children were found more creative in open as compared to structured classrooms. No significant differences were found between creativity levels of high anxiety students in the two types of classes. (Author)

Junior college students were randomly assigned to dyadic or individual test conditions and scored on the Unusual Uses Activity of the TTCT. Analyses showed dyads more flexible and original than individuals; no significant differences due to locus of control; and males more flexible in creative functioning. (Author/SJL)

Disadvantaged, Upward Bound students (n=94) were administered a test battery of the Otis Quick-Scoring Mental Ability Test, Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test, Guilford's tests of Expressional Fluency, Alternate Uses, and Consequences; and the Figural Form of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. Results are discussed in relation to previous…

This study evaluated interrelationships among the scores of 51 high school seniors on the Remote Associates Test (RAT), verbal subtests of the Torrance Tests, the Alpha Biographical Inventory (ABI), and IQ. For all Ss, RAT scores, IQ, and the ABI Academic Success score comprised an interrelated "intelligence cluster." With males, none of…