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Harris, Darlene G.; Blank, Stanley S. – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1983
The study involving 103 fifth graders supported previous findings linking classroom climate with students' creative functioning and indicated that both the Productive Thinking Program (PTP) and activities based on the Creative Problem Solving program were successful in enhancing students' creative problem solving. Teachers preferred the more…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedWiles, John; Bondi, Joseph – Roeper Review, 1980
Twenty skills are identified and illustrated by example activities which should help the student receive, organize, and analyze data; manipulate it at a symbolic or model level; and treat it in imaginative ways through purposeful distortion and fantasy. (CL)
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creativity, Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities
Jaben, Twila H. – 1980
The study investigated the impact of participation in a creativity instructional program on measures of creative thinking and problem solving with 49 learning disabled intermediate level students and a control group of 24 nondisabled students. The Purdue Creative Training Program was used as the independent variable. Analysis of verbal fluency,…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creativity, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities
Download full textTallent, Mary K. – 1985
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of the Future Problem Solving Program on gifted students' ability to solve futuristic problems. Two specific research questions were asked. The first question dealt with the effects of the Future Problem Solving Program on subjects' total score on an ill-structured problem. Question two asked…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Futures (of Society), Gifted
Peer reviewedPearson, Erica – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1996
Five problem-based learning activities tested by fourth-grade gifted students are suggested. Each open-ended problem is intended to be worked on by a small group for 30 minutes. Student reactions are quoted and analyzed, noting that students became more willing to take risks, test the properties and limits of their materials, and learn from their…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Creativity
Clode, Linda – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1992
An enrichment program developed for sixth-grade gifted students combined creative problem solving with future studies in a way that would simulate real life crisis problem solving. The program involved forecasting problems of the future requiring evacuation of Earth, assuming roles on a spaceship, and simulating crises as the spaceship traveled to…
Descriptors: Aerospace Education, Creative Development, Creativity, Crisis Intervention
