Investigated the impact of the 14-week Purdue Creative Thinking Program on learning disabled intermediate grade children. Found pupils in the experimental group made significantly higher scores on the creativity variables of the verbal subtest of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. (Author/JAC)

Two opinions are expressed: (1) that the notion that lawyers and judges are obliged to answer all hypothetical questions asked about laws and litigation is unrealistic and inappropriate, and (2) that hypotheticals can be intelligent questions illuminating some of the difficulties of legal theory. (MSE)

Educational imagery is a teaching method that guides students into decision-making situations through directed daydreaming or fantasizing. The theory is that if a decision is clearly imagined and acted out, the process will be facilitated in real life. (JN)

Because assessment of creative potential is important in the selection of leaders, it is recommended that the critical activities of any occupational assignment should be examined in connection with the whole range of abilities of the structure-of-intellect model. (CM)

Although restorative psychotherapy is primarily curative, counseling is largely an educative and growth-oriented activity. Successful coping requires continual adaptation to the array of changing environments and life roles. The balance between thought and emotion is important for personal effectiveness as well as for creative productivity.…

The author suggests that the preconscious is the true locus of significant prose because of its greater amount of freedom to gather, compare, and rearrange ideas, and that the ultimate challenge to teachers of composition is to give freedom to their students' preconscious processes. (KC)

Reports of one poet's efforts in elementary classrooms to counteract the misconception of the syllabic nature of haiku. (RL)

Presents an analysis of student science projects at science fairs that judges are likely to encounter. Presents a challenge to the organizers of science fairs to define the goals of the fair and the criteria for selecting winners. The problems associated with the process are discussed. (SA)

Wallach-Kogan Tests of Creativity were administered to 129 second-graders and fluency and uniqueness scores were computed for each of five subtests. Evidence was obtained for the construct validity of the Wallach-Kogan measures of creative thinking. (Author)

Effective Thinking Outdoors (ETO) is an organization that teaches thinking skills and strategies via significant outdoor experiences. Identifies the three elements of thinking as creativity, play, and persistence; presents a graphic depiction of the problem-solving process and aims; and describes an ETO exercise, determining old routes of travel…

Describes The Teachers, Time, and Transformations (TTT) project and uses the discussions of open-ended problem to present a cooperative model of staff development. Attempts to portray the advantages of such an approach and concludes with challenging readers to attempt a similar group-mathematics experience. Appendices include six approaches to the…

Two studies involving 60 graduate and undergraduate students explored the role of structured imagination in story creation. Results indicate representational knowledge was an important influence on story meaning and originality and that meaningful and original stories were more likely to contain abstract concepts than were nonmeaningful and…

Reports on the winning tool creations by 1,300 fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students in the 1997 Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Awards Program. Students had to use mechanical and science process skills to design and build tools to meet their needs in solving a problem. The winning entry was a calibrated angle and depth scissors. (AIM)

Discusses how clothing choices can be a form of art expression in children and young adults and believes that art teachers should encourage such creativity. Describes types of outlets for artistic dress-up that can be used in the classroom. (CMK)

Focuses on how music teachers can make choral rehearsals more interesting for students by incorporating creative lessons and activities. Explores what it means to be creative and includes examples of creative lessons that can be used in the choral rehearsal. (CMK)