This monograph deals specifically with the challenge of recognizing or assessing creativity. It is intended for teachers, program coordinators, administrators, counselors, or researchers who are concerned with such questions as, "Can creativity be measured?" "What assessment tools are available to assist us in recognizing creativity in students?"…

MATHCOUNTS is a national coaching and competition program designed to stimulate 7th- and 8th-grade students' interest and achievement in mathematics. Teachers and volunteers coach students beginning each fall and continuing throughout the year. Participating schools can select individuals or four-person teams to compete in on-site competitions.…

Drama in the school can be used to help the child become a more fully integrated being by developing his physical, mental, emotional, psychological, and spiritual faculties, and it can serve as an instrument for teaching skills and facts. (Author)

This article presents the argument that being explicit about a previously implicit process has a profound sociological effect---it changes that process from an elitist to an egalitarian activity. (Author)

Does, in fact, the teaching profession attract people of low conceptual level, and/or do teacher education programs encourage arrestation at a low conceptual level of development? (Author)

Discusses the facotrs involved in recognizing and encouraging creative ability, and summarizes creativity research to date. (SP)

Describes the Creative Studies Project, which proposes to increase the degree to which American education cultivates creative potential in our society. (Author/DR)

Describes research on creative processes, in which subjects were tested in a hypnotic experiment. (DR)

An evaluation of the effectiveness of the components of the Purdue Creative Thinking Program (used to increase creative thinking) was made. The Program was shown to prove most effective with fourth and fifth graders, with the exercises (writing, drawing) proving to be the most valuable component. (CD)

It was concluded that preschool disadvantaged children could be taught to think in more creative ways. (Author/AG)