Montessori education has a long history, but its recent growth in American public schools has led to increased interest in research efforts, particularly in exploring the potential of the Montessori experience to moderate the effects of poverty and in gathering data to evaluate public investment in Montessori schools. To assist research efforts,…

This report reviews the research on creativity assessment and on biases in creativity measures. The study attempts to clarify the relative bias of convergent and divergent ability and esthetic preference, and their relative bias to aspects of personality and educational preferences involving both subject matter and instructional method. A modified…

The recognition that children's cognitive skills are evident in visual as well as verbal conventions has led to the construction of the Silver Test of Cognitive and Creative Skills (STCCS) for the assessment and development of children's cognitive abilities. Research on cognition, the role of language in cognition, and left and right brain…