Sixty-four selected convention papers are presented from the 40th annual Council for Exceptional Children Convention in 1962. The papers range in length from two to seven pages. Selected topics include appraisal in the counseling of deaf clients, trends in curriculum development for the mentally retarded, emotional disturbance in deaf children,…

Discussed in the eight conference papers on creativity and the gifted implications of federal legislation for the gifted, the development of a composite measure of artistic creativity, and an empirical study of cognitive style and creative problem solving in junior high school students. A paper on the identification of creativity in writers…

THE EFFECTS OF TWO TECHNIQUES FOR TEACHING CHILDREN'S LITERATURE TO SAMPLES OF FIRST-GRADE CHILDREN WERE INVESTIGATED. THE EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT WAS BASED ON LAWRENCE KUBIE'S MODEL OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS. THE CONTROL GROUP RECEIVED THE CONVENTIONAL PRESENTATION OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE WITHOUT KUBIE'S EMPHASIS ON METAPHORICAL AND PRECONSCIOUS…

DIVERGENT THINKING TESTS, WHICH MEASURE THE ABILITY TO PRODUCE DIVERSE RESPONSES TO PROBLEMS THAT HAVE NO SINGLE ANSWER, AND CONVENTIONAL TESTS OF CONVERGENT THINKING WERE COMPARED TO DETERMINE IF THE TWO TYPES OF TESTS REPRESENTED MORE THAN ONE DOMAIN OF PSYCHOLOGICAL APTITUDE. ALL STUDENTS IN A GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY COURSE WERE TESTED, AND COMPLETE…

The effects of meditation upon creativity are discussed. (BD)

Children are asked to describe the subtraction process or to describe a context in which subtraction may be used. (JLH)

Reassessment of 120 college females' creativity after the subjects observed others of varying creative ability showed both predicted increases and predicted decreases in subjects' component verbal creativity scores. (RL)

Presents monthly guides on how to teach basic subjects. (RK)

A comparison was made of the effects of a topic-centered lecture and a skill-centered practice session on creativity, as measured by two tests of divergent thinking. Results were interpreted as supporting De Bono's claim that thinking skills are best taught by focusing on techniques which, with practice, can be deliberately applied to a number of…

Provides the syllabus for a course which examines the role of creative thinking with the scientific method and the interrelationship of science and society. (CP)

Written questions and answers lead to original thinking and writing and to better reading class management than does the "directed reading activity" approach to reading instruction. (JM)

A new creativity test is described that is based on the percept-genetic theory, which presumes that percepts are built by ultra-short, mostly preconscious processes. The test uses a still-life with two main structures, which is shown in two series of presentations differing in length. Results of experiments using the test are described. (Author/KM)

Creativity is seen as a problem-solving process including problem recognition and definition, generation and teaching of alternative possible solutions, and selection of the best solution. Using this process as a task analysis for designing instruction in creativity, types of tasks are analyzed. The use of functional completion criteria is…