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,…

The author identifies and describes models for developing materials to teach creative thinking and problem solving skills. (CL)

Reviews research on possible contributions of role playing, games and sports, and play to the developmental process, e.g., the inter-relationships between play and creativity. (MBR)

Described is the SICCS model (Social Interaction and Creativity in Communication System) for systematically analyzing behaviors associated with creativity. (DB)

The author discusses the apparent lack of present day progress and developments of mathematics and mathematicians as compared with those of previous generations. (Author/MN)

Describes two studies of brain hemisphere development which indicate children retarded in the functions of one hemisphere may not be retarded in the functions of the second hemisphere. Suggests that the left hemisphere functions may inhibit some right hemisphere functions. (SL)