An evaluation of the effectiveness of the components of the Purdue Creative Thinking Program (used to increase creative thinking) was made. The Program was shown to prove most effective with fourth and fifth graders, with the exercises (writing, drawing) proving to be the most valuable component. (CD)

It was concluded that preschool disadvantaged children could be taught to think in more creative ways. (Author/AG)

The study assessed the creative thinking and moral reasoning of academically gifted male (N=24) and female (N=27) adolescents. There were some indications that the relationship between creativity and moral reasoning differs across age, sex, and creativity subtests. (SB)

A six-hour unit in creative problem solving was offered to a class of gifted high school journalism students. Sessions included a pretest and introduction to unit objectives, brainstorming, discussion of a personal problem, consideration of a newswriting problem, analysis of newswriting suggestions, and a posttest. (SW)

A professor's one-time observation of gifted and low-achieving students at one school leads to a startling conclusion. The gifted students were excessively anxious and unable to think creatively in the face of new problems; the low-achievers demonstrated high levels of creative problem-solving. (Author/WD)

Changes in creative thinking, as measured by Torrance's Thinking Creatively with Pictures, and in dance/movement skills were investigated in 20 hearing impaired students, aged 9 to 14. Analysis of covariance showed that students given dance training improved significantly in originality, elaboration, total thinking creatively score, and…

Results indicated that statistically significant but small relationships appear to exist between the areas of auditory and visual imagery vividness and the creativity components of elaboration and total creativity. (CL)

A teacher had to deal with the problem of effectively instructing slow learners while making sure that the gifted students were kept interested by practicing creative thinking. Paradox and analog techniques were applied to instruction in a biology class. (SBH)

Argues that incrementalism's weakness is that it is another rational approach to problem solving when what is needed is a nonrational approach--creativity. Offers guidelines for improving creativity in oneself and in the work environment. (IRT)

The suggested activities are designed to demonstrate that not all problems have answers, that some solutions are totally unexpected, and that not all effort needs to be channeled toward an objective. (Author/PHR)

The final installment of a series of articles on the "Mushroom Place" learning center program, which involves creative thinking activities for young, gifted students, describes "Doing It the Hard Way," a performance task which involves the actual construction of objects from a selected set of materials in the absence of the usual project tools.…