Article contains a listing of recent works relating to Creativity and Problem-Solving as reported in Dissertation Abstracts. (Author/RK)

Presents two proposals designed to facilitate the development of behavioral objectives: the inclusion of concrete examples with abstract behavioral descriptions and an emphasis on the behavioral nature of teachers' judgments. (DD)

Article investigated the use of biographical, personality, attitudinal and motivational information for predicting creative potential. (Author/RK)

Described an instrument for developing ideas which will enable organizations to work out creative solutions to problems and issues. (Author/RK)

Article showed students creating paper collage in meeting the art challenge to explore and to work creatively with familiar and freely available material. (Author/RK)

This nationwide study concerned the relation of classroom behavior and student-teacher relationships to facilitation of creativity in college students. Encouragement outside the classroom was found to be the most important aspect affecting creativity. (Author)

Reports that a comparison of scores obtained from 184 fourth through sixth graders on tests of verbal and nonverbal creative thinking and arithmetic tests produced significant correlations of small to moderate magnitude between verbal originality and mathematics. (TO)

Revised and expanded version of a paper presented at the Colloquium of the reasearch Institue for the German Language, Marburg, West Germany, June 16, 1972. (DD)

Article describes the planning of an interrelated arts' class with the emphasis on the child's understanding of what he is portraying. (Author/RK)

Discusses the philosophy behind a part-time program for young people who want to discover and develop their creativity. The program was pioneered in a Massachusetts school to emphasize the process of discovering what is unique about each student for goal-setting and to remedy the ills of tracking. (Author/JF)

The present study observed problem-solving styles with anagrams to see whether observing a model solve anagrams in a rigid or flexible way would affect the types of solutions the subjects used. (Author)

Three basic strategies and a number of nonreactive research methods are suggested as checks on data procoduced through questionnaires and interviews. (PS)

Demonstrates that use of unusual materials frees the students from preconceptions of what his art product could be. (DS)

Describes an experiment built on the hypothesis that a relationship exists between a person's visualization skills and his creative abilities. Twenty-eight college students in engineering were given a design problem which was real and free. Results confirmed the hypothesis. (DF)