The author discusses the development, reliability and validity of the Ideal Pupil Checklist, a 66-item instrument for assessing children's creative characteristics. (LH)

Article focused on Creative Helping, designed to facilitate the development of distinctive personality, to reduce anomie and to release creative energy. (Author/RK)

This article discusses some reasons for not implementing the National Recreation and Park Association certification/registration program. (PD)

The individual stylistic variations of creative potential and conceptual tempo were investigated in 61 preschool children. The Kansas Reflection Impulsivity Scale for Preschoolers (KRISP) was used to measure the reflective/impulsive (that is, creative tempo) dimension, and the Multidimensional Stimulus Fluency Measure (MSFM) was administered to…

A series of studies was conducted to examine effects of various types of praise and of instructions and primes on the making of a different/new form or the using of an object in a unique way by preschoolers. Generalization of creative behavior within a response set of a given task and from a trained task to an untrained (transfer) task was…

The effects of a 14 week creativity training program (the Purdue Creative Thinking Program) on the creativity in written expression of 25 learning disabled (LD) students (11 to 12 years old) was measured. The program consisted of 28 audio tapes and printed exercises designed to foster divergent thinking in areas of verbal and figural fluency,…

Author investigated the meaning of creativity in children in terms of tests designed to measure creative ability. (RK)

Discussed a measurement instrument that expands on self actualization to include actualization of the environment. (RK)

In a world increasingly concerned about the social results of scientific discovery and technical change, we tend to lose sight of the artist as inventor and human being. Creative talent needs opportunity lest it continue to be almost as rare as the genius of the great scientist. (Editor/JR)

Distinguishes 'regulative' and 'creative' administration. Argues that the future of 'participation' has no chance without brilliant and inventive services from the administrator. (Author/WM)

Article investigated some assumptions underlying most of the speculation, theory, and experimentation in the search to define creativity. (Author/RK)

An analysis of how viewing educational media relates to creativity. (HB)

Article provided a well-known example of creative invention, that of the hovercraft, which served well as a highlight of the problems facing the student of creativity. (Author/RK)

A SATURDAY MORNING SEMINAR PROGRAM USED ROCKLAND COUNTY'S COMMUNITY RESOURCES POOL OF PROFESSIONALS TO TEACH SELECTED STUDENTS FROM GRADES 6-12 IN SCIENCE, ART, WRITING, SOCIAL SCIENCE, GOVERNMENT, LAW AND "CRITICAL THINKING" (LOGIC). IN ADDITION, THREE CONCERT-SEMINARS BY PROFESSIONAL MUSICIANS WERE HELD FOR THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND…