Scoring categories and administration instructions are given for use with the manual for the Draw-A-Classroom Test. The manual, also available, should be consulted if drawings are to be scored. This appendix to the manual is divided into five sections on space, persons, drawing the person, classroom constants, and objects. Specific details of the…

This collection of interviews on the subjects of teaching and learning writing comes from eleven writers who were also college teachers of writing. The writers were on a staff of poets and novelists at the Hollins Conference in Creative Writing and Cinema, which took place in June 1970. John Graham, a member of the conference staff, taped 110…

A montage of thought and comment on motion pictures is presented, from short articles to cartoons, quotes, poems, drawings and pictures. Included are descriptions of how movies are possible, techniques of filming and editing, criticisms, history, the effects of films on the people who watch them, and personalities of the people involved in films.…

TWO GROUPS OF 31 OR MORE FOURTH-GRADE CHILDREN, WHO SCORED 115 OR HIGHER ON THE 1960 STANFORD-BINET INTELLIGENCE SCALE, RECEIVED ENRICHMENT IN CREATIVE THINKING AND WRITING. ONE GROUP RECEIVED TYPING INSTRUCTION, PRETESTS ADMINISTERED IN THE FOURTH GRADE AND AGAIN TO THE SAME STUDENTS AT THE SIXTH GRADE INCLUDED THE CALIFORNIA ACHIEVEMENT TESTS…

Author attempted to draw crucial distinctions between creativity in the growing child and in the mature artists, and to suggest ways in which current developmental theory can illuminate our understanding of the processes of the development of creativity. (Author/RK)

Letting students create poems out of random collections of words involves and interests them.

Items constructed like those of Mednick's Remote Associates Test (RAT) fall into distinct categories, which are shown to interact significantly with subjects and with subject groups determined on the basis of performance. Some doubts are cast on the validity of the RAT. A similar 16-item test is included. (Author/JKS)

The long-standing belief that age is negatively associated with scientific productivity and creativity is shown to be based upon incorrect analysis of data. Studies reported in this article suggest that the relationship between age and scientific performance is influenced by the operation of the reward system. (Author)

The article discusses the relationship between mental health and giftedness in children. (DLS)

Describes the process involved when intermediate students produced an original film during the last three weeks of the school year. (MAI)

Prospective teachers judged the creativity of eleventh grade students' modified essay compositions on the following subjects; mirrors; if the schools should close; or the new woman. Higher creativity ratings were associated with two factors: number of sentences, and number of novel ideas expressed. (Author/GDC)

Presents a brief but pertinent reminder that many of the so-called "basic" concepts in art education are value-laden and articulated with different degrees of evidential support. (Editor/RK)

The issues related to aesthetic education are examined, recent curriculum developments (such as the Central Mid-Western Education Laboratory) are described, and school programs (including Project Impact, an interdisciplinary model arts program for children and teachers) are discussed. (CL)

What is involved in the creative process? Investigates the teacher's part in all stages of developing the setting for stimulating the student's creativity. (Author/RK)