THE 1964 WORKSHOP ON THE ACADEMICALLY TALENTED AT SLIPPERY ROCK STATE COLLEGE WAS GIVEN GRADUATE CREDIT. THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE SESSION WROTE ARTICLES ON THE PROCEEDINGS THAT WERE COMPILED INTO A BOOKLET TO HELP ADMINISTRATORS AND TEACHERS DEVELOP EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR THE GIFTED. ONE OF THE AREAS DISCUSSED WAS IDENTIFICATION. SOME OF THE…

IDENTIFICATION AND DEFINITION OF TRAITS AND CHARACTERISTICS USUALLY PRESENT IN MOST KINDS OF ART PRODUCTS WERE ATTEMPTED DURING THE REPORTED RESEARCH. THE STUDY SOUGHT TO COMBINE THE IDENTIFIED AND DEFINED CRITERIA INTO A USABLE SCALE AND TO TRAIN JUDGES (GRADUATE ART EDUCATION MAJORS) IN THE USE OF SUCH A SCALE. PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, AND…

Some of the most used, misused, and abused terms in contemporary education are the words "create,""creative," and "creativity." One way of understanding creativity is to reject the current practice of assuming that creative behavior is directly caused by some special kind of mental operation called "creative thinking." What can be accepted is the…

TO DETERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP OF SEVERAL DIVERGENT, CONVERGENT, AND AFFECTIVE MEASURES ASSESSED IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL WITH DIVERGENT THINKING AND CREATIVE PERFORMANCE FOUR YEARS LATER IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, DATA WERE OBTAINED IN 1962 ON SEVENTH-GRADE CHILDREN CONCERNING IDEATIONAL FLUENCY AND ORIGINALITY, SPONTANEOUS VERBAL FLEXIBILITY, CREATIVE…

At a conference on "Education for Creativity in the American College," educators, artists and researchers considered the proposition that: "Little has been done to provide appropriate academic experiences for highly creative students during the post-adolescent years, and many colleges seem to lose more talented and creative students than they…

We are now undergoing what Charles de Gaulle called a "crisis of civilization." The basis of this crisis exists in our consumer society; it is the reign of technocracy, the supreme monolith of a unique value, productivity. Everything in our society is judged by its productive contribution. Man is alienated and disillusioned. Educators, and…

The purpose of this study is to clarify further the relationships among creative, cognitive, and affective production of students. Thirteen pairs of twins, eight monozygotic (MZ), five dyzygotic (DZ), were administered the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, MMPI, and Revised Beta Examination. The F ratio for testing significance of within-set…

The annotated bibliography which constituted the bulk of this masters thesis focuses on material dealing with rhetorical invention and the act of creativity and should be useful to the teacher of composition. Articles and books from other disciplines, as well as those from the field of English, are included. Items are divided into four categories:…

A brief review of the literature on bilingualism prefaces the study. Research which points up possible deleterious effects of bilingualism is cited. Two additional studies by Reigal et. al., and Peal and Lambert raise the possibility of bilingualism having some positive relationship to creativity. In this study, an attempt was made to examine the…

In these lectures, three aspects of the educational experience are discussed: exploration, conversation, and creation. Exploration is the free reaching outward, compelled by curiosity, wonder, and excitement. This is not necessarily associated with formal education, but must be achieved through the discipline of order and precision; such growth…

Determined was the relationship between performance on a test devised to measure scientific creativity and participation in a science fair. The sample was drawn from three junior high schools and two senior high schools. The experimental group was composed of 311 students who were developing a project for a science fair. The comparison group…

The role of the teacher who seeks to develop individuals who can solve problems, face issues, make decisions, and cope with pressures has at least three facets. The teacher becomes a questioner rather than a teller, encouraging rather than stopping the thinking process; a stage-setter making judgments about the types and varieties of experiences…

Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) has been criticized as inhibiting the development of creativity. It is proposed that a pilot study be conducted whose goal will be the selection and trial of instruments for measuring creative problem-solving ability in order to compare IPI pupils with non-IPI pupils, and to differentiate among individuals…

The effects of low and high levels of test-situation stress on creativity test performance were examined. A group of 60 fifth and six graders was randomly assigned to stress situations (high, low, and control) in which verbal subtasks of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) were administered. Verbal fluency scores from the TTCT…

This packet is a collection of 14 leaflets on topics dealing with education in the middle school. The middle school may be otherwise termed junior high school or intermediate school and may encompass various combinations of grades ranging from the fifth to the ninth grade. Leaflets 1 and 2 deal with understanding the special problems of the…