An eight-week program designed to stimulate fluency, flexibility, and originality proved effective in enhancing the creative thinking skills of 23 fourth grade students. Significant correlations were found to exist between IQ and creativity and between reading achievement and creativity. (GT)

The model involves the following five steps: (1) brainstorm the problems; (2) evaluate the brainstorm list and select the most important one; (3) brainstorm solutions to the problem; (4) create a synthesis of 3; and (5) develop a plan to implement 4. (PHR)

Described is Project Reach (Reaching Educators and Actualizing Children) which is designed for gifted students, and includes exercises in productive thinking, student participation in planning, decision making, forecasting, communication, creative problem solving, and mind stretching. (KC)

This study explored general relationships between figural creativity, as measured by the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, and cerebral dominance, as identified by the conjugate lateral eye movement (CLEM) interview procedure. Subjects were 175 adults. Results indicated no significant differences in figural creativity due to brain dominance…

The inquiry approach to learning is based on three phases. The exploratory phase encourages students to investigate a particular topic; the invention phase asks students to consider what they have learned; the final phase assists students in discovering the inadequacies of their inventions. (JN)

Reports on a class activity in which students wrote letters to leaders and personalities in the fields of art, literature, and politics to solicit bits of their "trash" for a student art show. (RL)

Suggestions are made for classroom activities to improve children's language skills. (JD)

The article lists 25 books for gifted children (ages 4-9 years) for use in stimulating the production of images and creative thinking. Each selection is annotated and includes suggestions for stimulating the reader. (PHR)

Race, academic achievement, locus of control, and general self-esteem influenced the responsiveness of 167 sixth grade students to four modeling conditions. The complexity of the relationships demands further research. (Author/RL)

This study examined the creative thinking of 32 delinquents on parole and 32 nondelinquent male high school students. Results indicated that although there were no consistent differences between the two groups with respect to figural creativity, there were consistent and significant differences when examining verbal creativity. (Author/SJL)

Brainstorming is suggested as one approach to problem solving. Generating possibilities stimulates creative and independent thinking and can facilitate problem solving in many situations. (MP)

To test the effect of psychomotor warm-up activity on creative thinking the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (Activity 3, Figural B) were administered to two groups of 49 second graders. (PHR)

College students were administered the Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT), the Remote Associates Test (RAT), a questionnaire concerning RAT strategy, and two self-report scales. Field independent subjects were found to be significantly more creative than field dependents; and advanced strategy levels and insightful responses were significantly…

Comments critically on Richards' conclusion (AA 524 939) that the extent of correlations among tests of divergent-production abilities justifies the belief in a single unitary creative aptitude. (Author/RK)

Second article of a two-part series focuses on how results of research into learning, creativity, and thinking abilities can be applied to help the individual become more creative. (SL)