This catalog contains descriptive abstracts of over 250 regular, handicapped, and guidance projects in Pennsylvania having substantive life during the period January 1, 1974 to June 30, 1975. Title III or Projects to Advance Creativity in Education (PACE) attempts to encourage new ways of teaching by providing needed services for children and…

It was postulated that the combination of heterogeneity and an element of similarity--i.e., complementarity--would produce a stimulating yet cohesive group interaction. The subjects for this study were 359 students enrolled in six required English and six required social science classes at Miami-Dade Community College. Within the limitations of…

The annotated bibliography on creativity contains approximately 150 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents published from 1961 to 1973 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC). It is explained that titles were…

At present, the theory of creative writing most widely used is based on the premise that personal writing contains dimensions for child growth. Recent research indicates that students taught from the creative model require the same degree of facility in writing skills as those students taught by the traditional method. Furthermore, students in…

Biographical data were collected on 665 students (in grades 11 and 12) previously identified as gifted and 421 other (control) students in an effort to improve identification procedures of students gifted in academic, leadership, or artistic areas; and to reduce racial and other biases when selecting students for specialized training. Ss were…

The adoption of a behavioralist stance in education--namely, that of the "specificationist" who attempts to strengthen the humanist position by examining the behaviors which educators are trying to shape and by finding the most effective methods of instruction for accomplishing these ultimate goals--can help rid the schools of their worst evils…

A creative-aesthetic approach to school readiness and beginning reading and arithmetic, as formulated by Fortson, was used with 24 kindergarten children. Two control groups included 39 children. Two replications of the study were made, each having two experimental groups. Experimentals scored signifcantly higher on tests of creative thinking,…

Articles included in the collection of convention papers discuss a creativity score from the Stanford Binet and its applications, performance based instruction, methods for maximizing the development of talent among the urban disadvantaged, and talent potential among the disadvantaged. Abstracts of papers are provided on the following topics:…

To gather data on the implications of the proposition that intellectual ability should be conceived as multidimensional, 19 different measures, all of which have been employed as selection criteria for programs for the gifted, were used as a basis for selecting 5 students from 2 fifth-grade classes (N=49) for inclusion in a hypothetical program…

Designed to examine the cultural influences on creative development, the study analyzed imaginative stories by students from a segregated Negro school in Georgia and from a middle class white school in Minnesota. The stories were evaluated in terms of originality, interest, style, and pressures of divergency and conformity. The students were…

Participative education could provide impetus and direction to the educational revolution that has been brewing for some time. This approach, based on student involvement and participation, would meet the needs of students and teachers, both of whom are searching for alternatives to traditional education. Emphasizing self-responsibility,…

The Picture Interpretation Test (Torrance and Grossman, 1967) was used in a battery of creative tests as part of a construct validity test. The test was administered to 46 boys and 37 girls in five first grade classrooms in a Clayton County, Georgia, elementary school. The purpose of the test was to measure the child's ability to "read a…

The primary concern of the English teacher should be to develop the unique potential every student has for imaginative thinking and creative expression. The ability to think creatively stimulates the student's intellectual curiosity, frees him from the rigidity of social class values, religious dogma, and historical precedent, and enables him to…

One hundred and thirty-eight undergraudate college males were administered individual and group measures of perceptual field-independence. Most of these subjects were also administered two measures of intelligence and a battery of tests of creativity. Comparisons were made of the creative test performance of three groups of 15 subjects each,…

In teaching students how to write, the utilitarian aspect does not need to be ignored, but--more important--the imaginative, expressive aspect should be emphasized. Since all writing depends on the full resources of the imagination, students need to be taught how to recreate or vivify people, objects, scenes, and feelings. A process which helps…