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Dudek, Stephanie Z. – 1973
There are many myths about young children based on the definition of creativity as an innate capacity for openness to experience. This definition of creativity as a personality trait or attitude (creativity as expressiveness) has little relationship to creativity as the making of original and socially valuable products. Studies of children's art…
Descriptors: Art Expression, Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Cognitive Ability
Wakefield, John F. – 1989
This study explores the usefulness of a creativity construct for arts education. It is hypothesized that an arts orientation is a valid personality construct, that this orientation is correlated with contrasting cognitive skills, and that these skills are manifested in creative behaviors. Sixty-five high school seniors were given the ACT Interest…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Expression, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement