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Artley, Nancy L.; And Others – Creative Child and Adult Quarterly, 1980
Findings indicated that, among college students, problem finding ability is independent of intelligence and field dependence. (Author/SBH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Creativity Research, Higher Education
Reisman, Fredericka K.; And Others – Creative Child and Adult Quarterly, 1981
Ss were administered Thinking Creatively in Action and Movement (TCAM), traditional Piagetian measures of conservation of number and mass, modification Piagetian tasks, and the Sequential Assessment Mathematics Inventory. Among findings was that creative thinking ability, as assessed by the TCAM, significantly predicts cognitive performances that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Creativity Tests
Torrance, E. Paul – Creative Child and Adult Quarterly, 1979
The third in a series of six articles on the use of different models for developing creativity and instructional materials focuses on the sociodrama model. (SBH)
Descriptors: Creativity, Instructional Materials, Models, Problem Solving
Torrance, E. Paul – Creative Child and Adult Quarterly, 1978
The author discusses definitions of creativity through research and analogy and suggests that since some of mankind's most compelling needs underlie the creative process, a denial of those needs results in illness. Physiological and psychological reasons for the therapeutic nature of creative problem solving are considered. (CL)
Descriptors: Creative Expression, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Definitions
Torrance, E. Paul – Creative Child and Adult Quarterly, 1978
The author identifies and describes models for developing materials to teach creative thinking and problem solving skills. (CL)
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Instructional Materials
Torrance, E. Paul; Torrance, J. Pansy – Creative Child and Adult Quarterly, 1978
The authors describe practice problems of the 1977-78 Future Problem Solving Program (involving gifted students from fourth to twelfth grade) to illustrate the Osborne-Parnes problem solving model for developing creativity instructional materials. (SBH)
Descriptors: Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society), Gifted
Burns, Mary T. – Creative Child and Adult Quarterly, 1986
Educators need to develop teaching strategies that allow children to explore creative musical processes that will nurture musical skills, self-awareness, and imagination. A sequence of five lessons encompassing language arts and music demonstrates how students can develop creativity by writing haiku and then composing music to accompany the poems.…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creativity, Haiku, Lesson Plans
Torrance, E. Paul; Sato, Saburo – Creative Child and Adult Quarterly, 1979
Among findings were that almost twice as many Japanese students preferred the intuitive approach to solving problems, and 27 percent of Japanese students regarded themselves as more intellectual than creative compared to 49 percent of American students studied. Preference by the Japanese students for verbal modes of learning as compared to their…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Creativity, Educational Research
