Discusses the societal roles, perceptions, and methods of both the artist and the scientist. Contends that both combine elements of experience whose interrelationship is not perceived by anyone else; thus both are required for survival, since the syntheses of their compositions provide new insights into reality. Journal availability: see SO 506…

Examines the objectives of a 16-week course on how a professor can determine the degree to which traits of creativity have been developed in students. Also tests for creative thinking are evaluated. (Author/RK)

Recommends that students be required to write poems in elementary French classes according to prescribed linguistic rules. The recommendation is justified from pedagogical, literary and linguistic perspectives. (MLA)

Reports a significant correlation between the development of genius and parental loss. (SL)

While the elements of enjoyment, creativity, and pleasure are present in the learning process, education is basically work, and despite its joyful aspects, it is sometimes drudgery. (JD)

Two Minnesota Importance Questionnaire (MIQ) scales, Creativity and Independence were validated by experiment. Subjects (N=68) were exposed to four task conditions representing joint combinations of high or low levels of Creativity and Independence. The behavioral results were consistent with the subjects' MIQ score levels on the two scales,…

Two groups of children seen by the Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children because of school difficulties were compared on tests for brain dysfunction, verbal intelligence, creativity, and mental health to find whether the group diagnosed as hyperkinetic and taking drug medication (N=47, average age=10.6 years) differed significantly from the…

A study of the creative performance of forty-eight preschool children from middle and lower income homes indicated that the boys produced more original ideas than the girls and that the middle class children were higher in creative fluency ability. (MF)

The philosophy, purpose and methods of the Creative Problem-Solving Institute are discussed. (RW)

The concept of general systems as a pattern of growth and development which involves integration, disintegration and reintegration and applies to natural sciences, behavioral sciences, and man-made systems is discussed in a dialogue between the authors. (RW)

The study examines the role of conceptual tempo in creativity and problem solving. It was hypothesized that reflective children would do well on tasks involving evaluation components, while impulsive children would do well on typical creativity tasks. Results indicated no significant differences among the conceptual tempo groups. (Author)

One approach to foreign language literature appreciation focuses on demystifying literature and encouraging and maintaining active student motivation and interest in the creative process. The literature lesson is divided and presented in four parts: directed observation; active analysis by discussion groups; re-creation of characters; and creative…

Four dimensions (Contact, Consciousness, Interest, and Fantasy) of the Creativity Classification System (CCS) have demonstrated high validity in identifying fourth- to sixth-grade students for an enrichment program. An identification procedure for use at the high school level is explained in relation to CCS. (Author/DB)