Demonstrates how the LOGO computer language's flexibility can be used to stimulate children's creativity, while its structured nature helps develop problem-solving skills. Stresses the use of exercises involving the transformation of simple patterns as a means of encouraging creativity. (SKC)

The rise in the number of students who showcase their particular talents on videos sent along with written applications to college admissions offices is discussed. Most are tapes of the student performing on stage or in sporting events, but some range from visual autobiographies to comic and dramatic productions. (MLW)

Despite evidence that researchers seek information by intuitive, illogical means, librarians approach research in a static, product-oriented way. In performing searches for scholars, librarians need to understand the organic nature of research and facilitate online searching's capability to enhance that process. (CDD)

Examines the relationships between doctoral students and their research problems under circumstances presently thought to be ideal for creative research endeavor. The article focuses on three contextual perspectives: (1) psychological and primarily affective, (2) theoretical-methodological and primarily cognitive, and (3) institutional. (CT)

To encourage the advancement of the arts in education, the article describes a form of interactive television that focuses on the use of creative drama techniques by the classroom teacher. (JD)

Discusses the support for higher-order skills in the secondary school and vocational curricula, the need for higher-order skills in the marketing curriculum, methods of teaching higher-order skills, and implications for teacher education. (CT)

The knowledge era demands that students and faculty analyze and organize information, which requires intellectual skills rooted in critical thinking, problem solving, formal operations, creative, and more recent metacognitive and cognitive concepts. These skills seem to have operations in common, including description, selection, representation,…

Gifted children often encounter problems both during school and after graduation. Due to their above average abilities, they often feel that the world will bend to accommodate them. Suggestions for helping the bright child prepare for life after school are offered. (DF)

Using Raven Progressive Matrices Test items, this study developed an empirical measure of subjects' ability to create new problems. The relationship between this ability and problem solving skills was examined. A very low correlation was found between inventing and solving problems. Problem creation was more difficult than problem solving. (BS)

Three myths about the cognitive processing of television and its effects on children and adults--television is a passive medium, viewing decreases creativity, and viewing is an addictive behavior--are discussed and compared with relevant research findings. (MBR)

Young adults, middle-aged, and old persons (n=150) participated in a study of creativity and age. Results showed age differences in creativity to the disadvantage of the old. Reduced speed of information processing, lower level of complexity, and decreased willingness to risk original solutions by age are offered as explanations. (Author/AS)

Three problems occurring as a result of combining separate junior and senior high school bands into a single junior-senior band are discussed. These include (1) range of ability, (2) student apathy, and (3) inhibition of younger students as a result of fear of senior high members of the band. (RM)

How Piaget's theory of developmental stages affects the musical ability of children at different ages is important for the music educator to understand. The following developmental stages are discussed: sensorimotor period, preoperations period, concrete operations period, formal operations period, and creative stage. (RM)

An effective arts program in the elementary schools of Nigeria should assist children in comprehending culture, past and present, and in understanding people's dependence-independence balance in relation to their environment. The arts also have an unmistakable role to play in easing the tension of modern living. (RM)

"Diagraming Analysis of a Fuzzy Technique" (DAFT) is a model rectifying two problems associated with Future Problem Solving Bowl activities, namely problem definition by teams and evaluation of team responses. (MC)