The study assessed the creative thinking and moral reasoning of academically gifted male (N=24) and female (N=27) adolescents. There were some indications that the relationship between creativity and moral reasoning differs across age, sex, and creativity subtests. (SB)

A six-hour unit in creative problem solving was offered to a class of gifted high school journalism students. Sessions included a pretest and introduction to unit objectives, brainstorming, discussion of a personal problem, consideration of a newswriting problem, analysis of newswriting suggestions, and a posttest. (SW)

A professor's one-time observation of gifted and low-achieving students at one school leads to a startling conclusion. The gifted students were excessively anxious and unable to think creatively in the face of new problems; the low-achievers demonstrated high levels of creative problem-solving. (Author/WD)

Changes in creative thinking, as measured by Torrance's Thinking Creatively with Pictures, and in dance/movement skills were investigated in 20 hearing impaired students, aged 9 to 14. Analysis of covariance showed that students given dance training improved significantly in originality, elaboration, total thinking creatively score, and…

Results indicated that statistically significant but small relationships appear to exist between the areas of auditory and visual imagery vividness and the creativity components of elaboration and total creativity. (CL)

A teacher had to deal with the problem of effectively instructing slow learners while making sure that the gifted students were kept interested by practicing creative thinking. Paradox and analog techniques were applied to instruction in a biology class. (SBH)

Argues that incrementalism's weakness is that it is another rational approach to problem solving when what is needed is a nonrational approach--creativity. Offers guidelines for improving creativity in oneself and in the work environment. (IRT)

The suggested activities are designed to demonstrate that not all problems have answers, that some solutions are totally unexpected, and that not all effort needs to be channeled toward an objective. (Author/PHR)

The final installment of a series of articles on the "Mushroom Place" learning center program, which involves creative thinking activities for young, gifted students, describes "Doing It the Hard Way," a performance task which involves the actual construction of objects from a selected set of materials in the absence of the usual project tools.…

Provides a model for the process of invention and illustrates it through an analysis of Shakespeare's 33rd sonnet. (DD)

The author discusses definitions of creativity through research and analogy and suggests that since some of mankind's most compelling needs underlie the creative process, a denial of those needs results in illness. Physiological and psychological reasons for the therapeutic nature of creative problem solving are considered. (CL)

This article developed out of a belief that our great hope of building a peaceful, brilliant world civilization, based upon the best that all the great cultures can offer, lies in the vast potentiality of creative ideas expressed in terms of a sane international policy under the leadership of the world's statesmen. (Author)

Discusses a need for problem posing and gives a definition and explanation of the term. Highlights an environment in which problem posing is a natural process of mathematical learning. Presents activities supporting problem posing. Contains 16 references. (ASK)

States that imagery is increasingly recognized as important in children's sense-making activities in mathematics. Presents an example of Elaine, a fifth-grade student who used her well-developed spatial sense in solving a nonroutine mathematics task. Illustrates some direct connections between a student's use of imagination and the ability to…

Finds that double presentation of a radio story to children did not result in fewer novel ideas than did a single presentation, thus proving implausible the faulty-memory hypothesis that radio stories elicit more novel responses than television stories because they are less well remembered. Notes that radio stories elicited more novel responses in…