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)

Discusses the progression of critical thinking skills from least difficult to most difficult. The hierarchy begins with "basic abilities," the next level is creativity and critical thinking, and the highest level is "problem solving." The entire process is called metacognition. Includes a chart outlining the developmental sequence and a list of…

The Test for Creative Thinking-Drawing Production, an open-ended drawing test, is an approach to assessing and identifying students' creativity in terms of 11 criteria: completion; additions; new elements; connections with a line; connections with a theme; boundary-breaking, fragment-dependent; boundary-breaking, fragment-independent; perspective;…

The study investigated whether 25 intermediate grade learning disabled students would generalize creativity training to increased competence on a spontaneous writing task. Following creativity training, including such activities as nonjudgmental brainstorming, the experimental group's writing significantly improved in number of thought units,…

This article presents theoretical and practical reasons for encouraging greater creativity in secondary school art instruction. Included is a list of questions and student outcomes which may be used by art teachers to assess whether their instruction is providing for the development of creativity. (JDH)

Describes the place play has in school learning. Discusses play and problem-solving ability, play and symbolizing, and learning by experimenting, and recognizes the need for a learning theory that includes recognition of play in learning development. (CRH)

Adapts Edward de Bono's "Intermediate Impossible" strategy--for considering ideas that normally would be discarded as stepping-stones to new ideas--for use as a prewriting activity to enhance creative problem solving. (HTH)

The microcomputer can foster creative thinking by enhancing problem solving, divergent and convergent thinking, motivation, and cognitive and affective domain abilities. Features of menu selection, interaction and branching, and feedback are noted. (CL)

The result of an investigation to establish evidence that trained gifted children, ages 8 to 11, would draw more realistically than untrained gifted children showed a significant difference between experimental and control groups and a significant interaction between age and treatment. (Author/PN)

The authors stress the need for teaching gifted children to read creatively, which includes synthesizing information into meaningful relationships, and propose a 20-item checklist to generate objectives and activities for fostering creative reading development. (MC)

A noted writer of fiction explores the role of imagination in the intellectual development of children and the need for imagination in various facets of daily lives and suggests ways of stimulating its use by children. (RBW)

Reports on a study that investigated the effect of readers' abilities to be creative on their abilities to make inferences in reading prose passages. (FL)