Explores the patterns of interrelationships among the part scores and total scores of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking and the Welsh Figural Preference Test for a sample of fifth grade pupils. (Author/RC)

Article adapted from a speech delivered to a Conference of the John Adaskin Project, sponsored by the Canadian Music Center (Toronto, Ontario, November 23, 1967).

Musical improvisation behavior of 4-, 6-, and 8-year-old children who played Orff xylophones during ten 15-minute sessions is described in this paper. Each session involved three improvisatory phases. Phase I consisted of free exploration; Phase II consisted of short verbally stimulated musical tasks (two imitation and six improvisational tasks);…

The sharing of new ideas for improving library services, a concern of every creative librarian, is the goal of this compilation of 156 novel and nontraditional approaches. The ideas are arranged alphabetically by key thought with a contents listing at the front of the handbook. Some are suitable for public libraries, some for school libraries,…

The overall goals of an advanced education course at William and Mary College using microcomputers to stimulate student creativity are to present the necessary background about creativity as it has been studied by psychologists and educators, to introduce students to instructional strategies which may develop creativity, and, finally, to increase…

HOW STUDENTS SAY THEY LEARN WAS INVESTIGATED. INTERVIEWS WITH A RANDOM SAMPLE OF 74 WOMEN STUDENTS POSED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE NATURE, FREQUENCY, PATTERNS, AND CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH ACTS OF DISCOVERY TAKE PLACE IN THE ACADEMIC SETTING. STUDENTS WERE ASSIGNED DISCOVERY RATINGS BASED ON READINGS OF TYPESCRIPTS. EACH STUDENT WAS CLASSIFIED AND…

THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SCHOOL GENERATED ANXIETY AND VARIOUS INDICES OF SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT, CREATIVITY, AGE, AND IQ, ARE INVESTIGATED. A 160 ITEM, MULTIPLE-CHOICE, MULTI-SCALE, SCHOOL ANXIETY QUESTIONNAIRE WAS ADMINISTERED TO 56 FOURTH, FIFTH, AND SIXTH GRADE CHILDREN WITH A MEAN STANFORD BINET IQ OF 126 FROM AN UPPER MIDDLE CLASS COMMUNITY.…

A SERIES OF STUDIES WAS MADE TO DETERMINE WHO THE GIFTED STUDENT WAS, THE ATTITUDES TOWARDS HIM AND THE CAREER ASPIRATIONS THAT HE HAD. IN THE FIRST STUDY, IN WHICH THE OUTSTANDING TRAITS TEST WAS ADMINISTERED, A WIDE VARIANCE OF ATTITUDES TOWARD GIFTED CHILDREN AND THEIR CAREERS WAS FOUND AMONG THE PARENTS AND TEACHERS. THE SECOND AND THIRD TESTS…

A CONTINUATION OF A PREVIOUS STUDY--"RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS AND STUDENT BEHAVIOR--PART I"--IS PRESENTED. A FURTHER ANALYSIS OF THE TEACHER MATRIX REVEALED THAT THOSE TEACHERS VIEWED TO BE NEAR THE WARM, PERMISSIVE END OF THE SCALE WERE NOT FOUND TO BE LESS WELL LIKED BY THE CHILDREN. THEY MADE LESS ACHIEVEMENT GAIN…

A STUDY OF LITERATURE ON CREATIVITY IS PRESENTED. CREATIVITY DEMANDS AN AWARENESS OF PROBLEMS, ABILITY TO CONCENTRATE ON THESE PROBLEMS, ABILITY TO TOLERATE, PERHAPS WELCOME, THE TENSION OF AN UNSOLVED PROBLEM. CREATIVE PEOPLE CAN BE YOUNG, AND THEY ARE ABLE TO WORK IN A FREE SITUATION. THEY ARE SELF-STARTING, WITH HIGH INTELLECTUAL ABILITY. THEIR…