Determined was the relationship between performance on a test devised to measure scientific creativity and participation in a science fair. The sample was drawn from three junior high schools and two senior high schools. The experimental group was composed of 311 students who were developing a project for a science fair. The comparison group…

The role of the teacher who seeks to develop individuals who can solve problems, face issues, make decisions, and cope with pressures has at least three facets. The teacher becomes a questioner rather than a teller, encouraging rather than stopping the thinking process; a stage-setter making judgments about the types and varieties of experiences…

Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) has been criticized as inhibiting the development of creativity. It is proposed that a pilot study be conducted whose goal will be the selection and trial of instruments for measuring creative problem-solving ability in order to compare IPI pupils with non-IPI pupils, and to differentiate among individuals…

The effects of low and high levels of test-situation stress on creativity test performance were examined. A group of 60 fifth and six graders was randomly assigned to stress situations (high, low, and control) in which verbal subtasks of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) were administered. Verbal fluency scores from the TTCT…

This packet is a collection of 14 leaflets on topics dealing with education in the middle school. The middle school may be otherwise termed junior high school or intermediate school and may encompass various combinations of grades ranging from the fifth to the ninth grade. Leaflets 1 and 2 deal with understanding the special problems of the…

One analysis of the creative process includes four steps: preparation; concentrated effort; withdrawal from the problem; insight or illumination; and verification, evaluation, and elaboration. The creative process is described elsewhere in four steps: openess, focusing, discipline, and closure. Research studies of highly creative adults have shown…

This teacher's workbook which accompanies the Total Creativity Program consists of a group of checklists for the following purposes: assessing pupils, compiling and diagnosing pupil assessments, and assessing and helping teachers. (JK)

For the past several years, entering University of Illinois freshmen have been required to participate in a "College Diagnostic Testing Program." A central purpose of this program has been to improve the prediction of course grades and of overall gradepoint averages (GPA) within the various colleges of the university. The unit for which the…

The author argues that the scientific method, as it is commonly understood, is a myth. (BD)

A review of L. Terman's studies on the gifted points out design problems and traces the expansion of such concepts concerning the gifted as the use of creativity for educational facilitation and the developmental correlates of creativity. (CL)

Study operationalizes small group structure (n=6) into democratic, authoritarian, and unstructured forms and seeks to determine which form of small group structure is most conducive to group production of creative behaviors. (Author/PD)

Discusses a study designed to assess the impact of information use patterns in an individual's process of creativity. (MH)

The author considers the manner in which children develop awareness of varieties of sound, pitch, and rhythm, and provides an outline for use in a class project in musical composition. (IM)

In a study comparing poetry written by 23 Ss and 24 controls, all students in introductory college speech courses, it was found that poetry written by the Ss who spent 15 minutes prior to writing the poetry in nonverbal activities of the encounter group type was rated higher than that of the controls on all three criteria of originality,…