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…

Reported is research involving the development and testing or 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…

A program designed to develop the creative potential of sixth, seventh and eighth grade students, incorporates ideas from a three-part model which conceptualizes the components of creativity as appropriate creative attitudes, various cognitive abilities, and idea-generating techniques. It attempts to increase students' awareness of, and…

To determine if use of a creativity training workbook (Stretch) would increase creative performance, 45 fourth grade pupils were studied. The students were divided into control and experimental groups with half high (mean IQ 113) and half normal (mean IQ 101) ability with the controls using a placebo workbook and the experimentals using the…

The purpose of this book is to examine various strategies for increasing creative productivity, particularly in industry and in the schools. In addition to the emphasis on training imagination, the articles included in this book analyze such critical variables as the physical and psychological atmosphere which encourages or stifles imagination,…

Major obstacles to good teaching of literature are discussed. To teach literature is to teach reading of mature literature, by oneself. Certain characteristics of our culture present major obstacles to accomplishing this teaching task: (1) the fact that we are a business-oriented culture with values that conflict with those that are inherent in…

The purpose of thinking is to collect information and to make the best possible use of it. Because of the way the mind works to create fixed concept patterns we cannot make the best use of new information unless we have some means for restructuring the old patterns and bringing them up to date. Our traditional methods of thinking teach us how to…

TWO GROUPS OF 31 OR MORE FOURTH-GRADE CHILDREN, WHO SCORED 115 OR HIGHER ON THE 1960 STANFORD-BINET INTELLIGENCE SCALE, RECEIVED ENRICHMENT IN CREATIVE THINKING AND WRITING. ONE GROUP RECEIVED TYPING INSTRUCTION, PRETESTS ADMINISTERED IN THE FOURTH GRADE AND AGAIN TO THE SAME STUDENTS AT THE SIXTH GRADE INCLUDED THE CALIFORNIA ACHIEVEMENT TESTS…

This publication was designed to help teachers learn about promising materials, methods, and techniques for teaching creative thinking and problem solving to disadvantaged elementary school children. Two kinds of reviews of published teaching materials for specific grade levels and subject areas are included: (1) reviews of commercially published…

Briefly discusses perceptual and organizational differences between the brain's left (sequential) and right (associational) hemispheres. Suggests that learning situations can be greatly enhanced by involving the learner's right hemisphere and describes some ways to stimulate that portion. (MF)

The organizational thinking structure presented here aims to help teachers and children to develop and use thinking skills during reading. Three levels of reading are defined: reading the lines, reading between the lines, and reading beyond the lines. (Author/DS)

Found managers do not differ significantly by gender in level of creative thinking, but do vary in creativity-job relationships. Need achievement was a significant predictor of creativity for men, while need affiliation predicted creativity in women. For women, age, education, and hierarchical level were positive predictors; organizational tenure…