IN THE SPRING OF 1961, TESTS WERE ADMINISTERED TO SEVENTH-GRADE STUDENTS TO IDENTIFY CREATIVITY WITHOUT REFERENCE TO INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT OR ACHIEVEMENT. IN THE 2D YEAR THE TESTS WERE REFINED, AND A SECOND GROUP OF CREATIVE STUDENTS WAS FORMED. IN 1963, FIFTH-GRADE CLASSES WERE SET UP, IN ADDITION TO A THIRD SEVENTH-GRADE CLASS. TESTS FOR THE…

THIS STUDY SOUGHT TO IDENTIFY VARIABLES RELATED TO EFFECTIVENESS OF COMMUNICATION IN MILITARY OPERATIONS. THE GOAL WAS TO DEVELOP TESTS TO CLASSIFY OFFICERS AND AIRMEN, BASED UPON ALL OF THE BROAD COMMUNICATION ABILITIES NEEDED IN THE AIR FORCE. THE RESEARCH OUTLINE CONSISTED OF REVIEWING COMMUNICATION STUDIES AND OTHER TESTS, PREPARING A REDUCED…

This selected bibliography of articles and books concerns the effects of industrial climate on research performance. (HW)

Through his prose and poetry, John Keats revealed much about his personal outlook and values that might be applied to a description of poets in general. Keats was fascinated by the workings of the human mind with its power to transform, connect, and communicate. He was full of curiosity, eager to relate the fragments of knowledge he acquired to…

Encouraging children to create imaginary worlds through writing provides them with ways of coping with the world in which they live, gives them the satisfaction of creating order and experiencing success, and prompts their natural inclinations to plan for a better future. In addition, such planning for utopias can both improve the quality of…

Students who scored very high, very low, and average on the ACT test were compared on their responses to 48 items of six nonacademic achievement scales. The six categories were: leadership, music, drama and speech, art, writing, and science. Significant, though slight, relationships were found between academic ability and several specific…

The first in this group of four papers presents an innovative technique of profile analysis called Shape-Type Criteria of Profiles, which uses both the information inherent in the order in which the elements of a profile occur and the information contained in the magnitude of the profile elements themselves to provide objective measures of profile…

The primary purpose of this study was to determine if an increase in creative ability occurs when prospective elementary mathematics teachers are exposed to, and participate in, the various aspects of a creative classroom environment. A secondary purpose was to determine the nature of the relationship which exists between creative ability, as…

The annotated bibliography on research in the area of the gifted and talented contains approximately 100 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents selected from the computer file of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Center and published from 1959 to 1973. It is explained that the abstracts are chosen according to…

This literature review concerns the relationships between imitation-modeling as a learning process and creative behaviors. If it can be demonstrated that creative (unusual, flexible) behaviors are increased upon seeing other creative behaviors modeled, this finding would contradict the simple matching to template interpretation for modeling…

The encouragement of creative thinking on the part of librarians is the purpose of this management guide. Every librarian has creative potential and the author discusses ways it can be developed. Included are discussions on the meaning of creativity, the need for creativity in libraries, traits of the creative librarian, steps in the creative…

The selected bibliography on gifted and talented contains approximately 100 abstracts with indexing information. Abstracts were drawn from the computer file of the Council for Exceptional Children Information Center's complete holdings as of June, 1973 and were chosen using the criteria of availability of document to user, currency, information…

The purpose of this study was to determine patterns of similarities and differences in perception of the college environment of four groups of undergraduate students classified as to degree of creative ability. Three questions were asked: (1) do perceptions of the actual or real campus environment differ for the group with the higher (HM) as…

This presentation focuses on honesty as an ingredient in the creative process of artists. Several suggestions resulted from this research: (1) the product of the creative process is about something; it has a referent, and this referent involves the artist's personal vision of world and self; (2) the honesty is not a recitation of factual reality…

This program, which consists of six volumes, a teaching strategies packet, and audiovisual materials, is based on a model which stresses the importance of identifying and encouraging eight thinking-feeling abilities which all children are capable of developing. The basic goals of the program are concentrated on stimulating growth in these…