The paper describes Project ICE (Institute for Creative Education), an approach to developing students' divergent thinking skills through a creative problem-solving process. Project ICE is designed to help students of all backgrounds and ability levels benefit by growth in fluent, flexible, original, and elaborate responses to problems or tasks.…

Instructional consultation in postsecondary institutions is explored by examining problem solving behaviors of instructional consultants and their faculty clients. Study goals were to: determine whether instructional consultants or the faculty clients guide the discussion during instructional consultation; describe the issues discussed by…

This paper describes a model education program in art education. The goals of the program are to: (1) encourage higher levels of thinking; (2) increase knowledge of arts terminology, style, and concepts; and (3) develop the characteristics of creative thinking, in students from kindergarten through high school. The teaching focus requires the…

The ideas in this workbook for stimulating children's creative thinking are presented as integral parts of ten stories about a boy named Dudley Bond (a distant relative of a very famous spy), his friend Max (a professional bear), and his cousin Maybelle. They find their imaginations stretched by a backyard scientist-inventor who knows dozens of…

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…