Study evaluates an intensive training program with gifted young adults in inducing creativity. (GB)

Study submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the PhD degree at the University of Michigan, August 1967.

TO DEVELOP AND VALIDATE AN INSTRUMENT FOR IDENTIFYING CREATIVITY IN PREADOLESCENTS, 19 SUBJECTS, 17 OF WHOM WERE TEACHERS EVALUATED EIGHT DRAWINGS BY 10-12 YEAR OLDS USING THE FIVE POINT ROUSE SCALE. THIS SCALE COUNSISTS OF A SERIES OF DESCRIPTIONS OF GRAPHIC AND PLASTIC ARTS COVERING 20 ITEMS, SUCH AS SHAPE, TEXTURE, UNITY, ORIGINALITY, AND…

Nonverbal creativity, here primarily referring to scientific or mathematical creativity, is considered a function of a set of psychophysiological characteristics. The most important of these, necessary and sufficient for nonverbal creativity, is seen to be a slight dominance of hippocampal or cortical inhibitory activity over reticular, or…

Based on previous studies with college students, this study investigated the hierarchy and creativity of responses in young children. According to the theory of hierarchies, the uncreative person initially produces stereotyped responses and soon runs out of alternatives, while the creative person initially has common ideas but subsequent ideas are…

Some of the conceptual and methodological problems in identifying and measuring creativity in young children are presented. Among the issues raised are: (1) the prediction of validity of creativity tests, (2) the problem of predicting adult creativity from evidence of childhood creativity, and (3) the need to identify and adequately measure the…

This research project studied the effects of an experimental teacher training program designed to help teachers nurture creativity in their pupils during the initial year of a city school desegregation plan. A pretest-posttest control group design was employed. One-half of the teachers participated in an experimental in-service program throughout…

This summary is a condensation of a 119-page major research study. The project studied the effects of an experimental teacher training program designed to help teachers nurture creativity in their pupils during the initial year of a city school desegregation plan. A pretest-posttest control group design was employed. One-half of the teachers…

The Creativity Center, a consortium of 56 cooperating specialists, has as its primary objective the development of a computer-aided process which will assist the common man in solving the problems of daily life more creatively. The current model guides an individual by questions which lead to an acceptable solution to the problem. Over the…

During the 1960's, a good deal of research was conducted on the psychological nature and measurement of creativity and on curriculum and instruction in the nurturing of creativity. (Author)

Viewing a videotaped model giving responses to a creativity test did have an effect on sixth graders' creativity performance in this study, but the effect varied with sex, race, creativity traits measured, and test used. (MJB)

Six guidelines for designing an instrument to measure creativity are presented with a focus on the psychometric and definitional concerns. The Detroit Public School Creative Product Scales is described as a possible approach for measuring creativity. (Author)

The Egyptian architect Wissa Wassef believed artistry in crafts to be an innate human characteristic that would be universally expressed under the right conditions, i.e., the practice of the craft from early childhood. When he had Egyptian peasant children with no previous art experience weave tapestries, the results astounded the world. (RM)

A preliminary scoring system is proposed for identifying creative individuals based on rapid opposite responding to the Kent-Rosanoff Word Association list. (Author/KM)

Describes the four major instruments now in use in the study of the creative ability of young children. (Atuhor)