Despite the amount of work done in evaluation in the humanities, there has not been enough clarification of the kind of knowledge or experience that the humanities can yield. More of this clarification must be done before developing even more new evaluation techniques. (MSE)

Gives an overview of creativity by defining it, characterizing the creative person, and identifying ways in which to encourage its development, such as providing creative role models, maintaining a safe and secure environment, avoiding criticism, communicating, and remaining flexible. (DC)

Discusses how the Orff-Schulwerk approach to music education can be applied to the needs of mainstreamed, elementary-level, special education students. The Orff method stresses multisensory experiences, creativity, and individualized instruction. The author shows how an activity from a regular, elementary Orff class can be modified for special…

Describes a reading/writing program that allowed second grade students who were poor readers to invent their own spellings for words as they wrote. Concludes that the program led students to write more, request more help with spelling, and feel better about their writing. (FL)

In an interview, designer and filmmaker Saul Bass discusses the nature of creativity and the creative process and his work in the visual arts and their implications for education. (HTH)

Composition is not a straightforward, linear process; it involves a creative search for meaning that becomes clear only as the writer engages in the composing process. This suggests that teaching not dwell on the correctness of the finished product. (Author/SJL)

In recent years, researchers have shown interest in errors that can frustrate teaching, training, and learning. A discussion of the form an overall theory of error might take is presented in a comparatively discursive and nonrigorous way. Thirty-two references are listed. (Author/CHC)

The EEG biofeedback training produced baseline effects in the presumably dysfunctional left hemisphere and had an impact on arousal in task, suggesting remedial potential for the possible hemispheric arousal deficts in learning disabilities. Training the right hemisphere toward higher arousal and the left hemisphere toward lower arousal resulted…

The Program for Academic and Creative Enrichment (PACE) is a pull-out program for gifted elementary students. It is implemented by resource teachers working on a three stage model to develop basic thinking, critical thinking and problem solving, independent study, and research skills. (CL)

The author reviews research and theory about the role of incubation (a period in which there is no apparent activity toward problem solving but some progress toward a solution occurs) in creative thinking. Note: For related information, see EC 120 233-238. (CL)

It is suggested that coming up with fresh and interesting ideas for college and university publications requires keeping an open mind to events, people, and surroundings, finding good writers, and planning interesting layouts with illustrations. (MSE)

This study explored general relationships between figural creativity, as measured by the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, and cerebral dominance, as identified by the conjugate lateral eye movement (CLEM) interview procedure. Subjects were 175 adults. Results indicated no significant differences in figural creativity due to brain dominance…

The article explores the interaction of music and language: common characteristics, parallel development, and benefits from concurrent study. The author contends that music study enhances intellectual development, creativity, and verbal communication. (PHR)

A society can educate all its members to be more creative than Aristotle's "ideal choosing agent" if it can encourage them to conform to certain standards while at the same time educating them to express individual proclivities. (JD)

Data from questionnaires mailed to a sample of full professors were used to test the hypothesis that as persons advance through career stages, they are granted greater latitude in, and have greater inclination for, the expression of creative research activity within a broader perspective. Support was found for this hypothesis. (Author)