TWO CLOSELY RELATED ART LEARNING EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED IN A SETTING WHERE COLLEGE UNDERGRADUATES, TRAINED AND UNTRAINED IN ART, MADE SEQUENTIAL DRAWINGS OVER A 6- AND 7-WEEK PERIOD UNDER RELATIVELY CONSTANT CONDITIONS, EXCEPT FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF CONTROLLED TREATMENT INFLUENCES. THE SECOND EXPERIMENT WAS BUILT, IN PART, ON THE OUTCOMES OF…

RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED TO FOCUS ON AN EXAMINATION OF SEVERAL ASPECTS OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS AS WELL AS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TEST OF CREATIVE THINKING. THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES WERE (1) TO CONSTRUCT A TEST WHICH WILL MEASURE CREATIVITY AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL, (2) TO IDENTIFY THE VARIABLES THAT ARE EFFECTIVE IN INFLUENCING THE CREATIVE PROCESS,…

The assumption underlying the ideas presented in this study is that each of these two types of scientific creativity is accompanied by a specific psychological approach on the part of the scientist to his or her world of experience. A schema is presented for illustrating the processes of scientific perception, thinking, formulation, testing, and…

Fantasy activities are part of everyday experience. The author imagines hugging or touching someone, daydreams about sitting on a bench or riverbank, visualizes standing up during a boring meeting and shouting "let's wake up and do something!" Fantasy is also a tool that can be used in experimenting with new behavior, becoming more aware…

The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate television as an instructional medium for teaching creative thinking to fifth and sixth grade students by use of the "inquiry" method of instruction in the area of science. A secondary purpose was to determine the effect of student involvement in the live telecasts on their performance on a test…

A group of children were presented with several tasks, including the invention of a sleep machine and a machine to weigh elephants. The tasks were chosen to involve the children in coping with problems of a distinct character. A study of the children's drawings and interpretations shows that children's thinking ability is not very different from…

Investigated was the self directed learning readiness of 1,729 gifted students (grade 3-12) as measured by a 10-item measure of self directed learning and an abbreviated form of Thinking Creatively About The Future. (CL)

Activities are presented which involve folding and cutting paper, and then describing the finished product before opening the paper. (JT)

Discusses the use and stimulation of lateral, or divergent, thinking to promote creativity. (SL)

Learning disabled students need systematic instruction in thinking skills. Both individual clinical studies and group programs have proven such training effective. Some important thinking strategies include goal clarification, previewing, organization, questioning, imagining, predicting, checking results, humor, and self-monitoring techniques. (DB)

The sensitivity of creative thinking measured by the Torrance Tests with an experimenter-induced response set was investigated. Subjects (n=198) were divided into four groups and each was given a unique set of instructions. A multivariate Dunnett test showed that the Torrance Tests were highly sensitive to experimenter manipulation. (Author/DWH)

College education is essentially concerned with argumentation about interpretations. It depends on and trains for the capacity to assume different points of view simultaneously in order to interpret and predict, and it should celebrate playful acts of imagination. (MSE)

Examines the effects of rewards on ideational fluency of 75 preschool children. The children, who were assigned to a reward or nonreward condition, were administered two ideational tasks. Analyses revealed a significant main effect for reward on ideational components of originality, total fluency, and flexibility. Rewarded subjects scored lower,…

Examined the writing forms used as a means of self-expression by 148 high school students. Results indicated the majority of the participants utilized at least one writing mode. Females and those who were juniors in high school reported more frequent use of these than did males and seniors. (Author/BL)

Ways in which two children solve a division example are presented. The focus is on encouraging students to explore and develop ways of solving mathematics problems. (MNS)