All students enrolled in media courses gained in creativity. (JH)

Creating and displaying artworks based on words helps students appreciate the subtle strengths of language. (JH)

The author argues that in educational settings in which there is a low tolerance for "disruptive" and "antisocial" behavior, the nurturing capacity for creativity is also low. Creative persons exhibit not only anti-social behaviors, but also behaviors such as originality, self-sufficiency, and independence in thought and judgment, which may be…

Examines the relationships between intelligence, creativity, and the performance of EMR pupils as rated by their teachers. For this group of 217 subjects, equally distributed among black, white, male, and female, creativity appears to be as important as intelligence, or more so, in determining their rated performance scores. (Author)

Some realistic changes in the traditional authority-responsibility organizational concepts, which would recognize creativity, initiative, influence, and potential accomplishments, would involve people in industry who do not have formal authority or status--just talent. (Author/BP)

The subjective nature of the humanities does not lend itself to expression in behavioral terms. However, because humanities instructors are evaluated by the same "accountability" criteria as teachers of cognitive subjects, they are now stressing the measurable and ignoring the intangible areas of interpretation or even creativity. (Author/DC)

The possible relationship between masculinity and creativity in college women was investigated through a battery of masculinity-femininity scales that tapped both manifest and latent anxiety, factorially derived clusters, and an ipsative measure. Highly creative subjects scored higher on activity and described themselves as more masculine.…

This book contains comments by ten authors of children's literature concerning the influences they feel account for the particular qualities that define their books and about creative writing and children's literature in general. In the first article, P. L. Travers stresses the importance of fairy tales, myths, and legends in shaping her work,…

Benjamin Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives (knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation) combined with commonly accepted steps of the creative process (gathering material, reflection, inspiration, first draft or model, and evaluation) can be used to explore some of the possibilities of working with alphabet…

The focus of this study was on the processes students used in making mathematical conjectures for five divergent problem situations. The relationship of the processes to creativity factors across the problems was also examined. The results of various cluster analyses and correlational measures indicated that students use different sequences of…