The mosaic construction test described here is based upon 242 mosaics made by research scientists, successful well-known writers, highly creative architects, senior honor students in engineering, student playwrights, mathematicians, and upper-division and graduate students in a course in personality assessment. (Author/CB)

A study of 115 undergraduate psychology students was undertaken to determine (1) if the average college student could fake the response pattern of a highly creative person or an uncreative drudge, (2) if a social desirability scale could detect fakers, and (3) if high creativity is fakable, whether positive traits are more easily faked than…

The aim of this article is to investigate the effect of creativity on performance in oral narrative tasks. Participants in the study were Hungarian learners whose creativity was measured with a standardized creativity test. We examined the relationships among 3 aspects of creativity--originality, flexibility, and creative fluency--and different…

The purpose of this study was to explore Vygotsky's notion of private speech as a cognitive self-regulatory process and how it related to creativity measures among at-risk children. Thirty-two Head Start and state-funded Pre-K children completed the Torrance creativity test Thinking Creatively in Action and Movement (TCAM). The children's private…

The purposes of this article are (1) to report empirical findings of studies of original or creative thinking in preschoolers, (2) to point out important issues to be considered in measuring the creativity of preschool children, and (3) to discuss the practical implications of these findings and issues. Research conducted at the Virginia…

The effects of low and high levels of test-situation stress on creativity test performance were examined. A group of 60 fifth and six graders was randomly assigned to stress situations (high, low, and control) in which verbal subtasks of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) were administered. Verbal fluency scores from the TTCT…

This study which involved 60 kindergarten and 69 second grade students sought to identify a significant relationship between internal control perception and creativity. Internal control refers to the perception of positive and/or negative events as being a consequence of one's own actions and thereby under personal control. The Bialer (1961) locus…

To test the hypothesis that common responses will tend to predominate initially with unique or original responses occurring more often later in a sequence of responses, 56 protocols from the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking were examined. Both a figural and a verbal form were administered following prescribed directions to children in the…

For the past several years, entering University of Illinois freshmen have been required to participate in a "College Diagnostic Testing Program." A central purpose of this program has been to improve the prediction of course grades and of overall gradepoint averages (GPA) within the various colleges of the university. The unit for which the…

Studies creativity as it relates to body image, and examines the communality of several creativity measures. (RC)

Twenty-six elementary teachers and 51 fourth grade students were administered the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking and the Rorschach Inkblot Test. (Author/CL)

Discussed is the identification and stimulation of creative imagination imagery. (Author/DLS)

The measurement of creativity in children is discussed. (DLS)

Discussed are the use of personality inventories as tests of creative potential and their use as screening measures in programs for the creatively gifted. (JYC)

This study examined possible differences due to race in socioeconomically matched Caucasion and Black college classes using Torrance's Ask and Guess and Unusual Uses Tests. No differences were found based on race. (GO)