This paper broadly summarizes research conclusions on the following aspects of creativity: characteristics of the creative behavior of preschool children; specific thinking abilities that account for differences in the degree of creativity from one person to another (fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration); general conditions under…

Creative reading can develop creative thinking as it inspires readers to change their behavior to produce a new or different product or process. Some characteristics of a creative reading program are that it develops creative thought, develops creative behavior, avoids rigid conformity, provides satisfying reading experiences, gives the child…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS RESEARCH WAS TO IDENTIFY THE BIOGRAPHICAL CHARACTERISTICS WHICH DISTINGUISH POTENTIALLY CREATIVE SCIENTISTS AND ARTISTS IN THEIR ADOLESCENCE FROM EACH OTHER AND FROM THEIR FELLOW STUDENTS. FROM A SAMPLE OF 442 BRIGHT MALE STUDENTS TAKING A NEW PHYSICS COURSE IN 72 CLASSROOMS IN 17 STATES SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, THREE…

Many methods in clinical and personality psychology has as their implicit if not explicit aim the eliciting of transformations so that the mind of the subject may be better understood. By offering a graduate seminar in "Psychobiography and Historiometry," the author hoped to deal with the problem of design and transformation in the study…

Reported is a study of the efficacy of mutually aided learning in science, defined as the systematic and long term use of high school students in an instructional role in elementary school science classes. A group of five or six high school juniors or seniors served as instructors in an elementary school science class, with each high school…

This study attempted to test hypotheses relating to the differential performance of two groups of elementary school children on tests of creative thinking. The two groups tested were from Freedom Schools in Prince Edward County, Va., where public schools had been closed for 5 years, and from schools of Jackson, Mich. The Virginia group consisted…

Reported is the development and testing of a program designed to encourage individual creative mathematical activity in first grade students. Initially some characteristics of the creative process and creative thinking were examined and six criteria describing certain aspects of mathematical creativity were identified and validated. An instrument…

Reported is research involving the development and testing or a program designed to encourage individual creative mathematical activity in first grade students. Initially, some characteristics of the creative process and creative thinking were examined and six criteria describing certain aspects of mathematical creativity were identified and…

A program designed to develop the creative potential of sixth, seventh and eighth grade students, incorporates ideas from a three-part model which conceptualizes the components of creativity as appropriate creative attitudes, various cognitive abilities, and idea-generating techniques. It attempts to increase students' awareness of, and…

To determine if use of a creativity training workbook (Stretch) would increase creative performance, 45 fourth grade pupils were studied. The students were divided into control and experimental groups with half high (mean IQ 113) and half normal (mean IQ 101) ability with the controls using a placebo workbook and the experimentals using the…

The purpose of this book is to examine various strategies for increasing creative productivity, particularly in industry and in the schools. In addition to the emphasis on training imagination, the articles included in this book analyze such critical variables as the physical and psychological atmosphere which encourages or stifles imagination,…

Major obstacles to good teaching of literature are discussed. To teach literature is to teach reading of mature literature, by oneself. Certain characteristics of our culture present major obstacles to accomplishing this teaching task: (1) the fact that we are a business-oriented culture with values that conflict with those that are inherent in…

The purpose of thinking is to collect information and to make the best possible use of it. Because of the way the mind works to create fixed concept patterns we cannot make the best use of new information unless we have some means for restructuring the old patterns and bringing them up to date. Our traditional methods of thinking teach us how to…