Edith Betts (1983) presented an Amy Morris Homans lecture entitled "Keepers of the Crown Jewels." During her lecture, Betts told a story of a queen who had some beautiful crown jewels. There were four that were particularly precious to her--a ruby, a pearl, a sapphire, and an emerald. As the story evolved, the queen noticed that after she left the…

Why not combine the use of technology with the excitement of a scavenger hunt that moves middle-level students out into the "wilds" of their school campus to classify plants? In the lesson plan described here, students embark on a botanical scavenger hunt and then document their findings using a digital camera. This project was designed to allow…

This study examined how Texas community college artist-educators balance artistic productivity with their teaching responsibilities. The 98 survey respondents represented 76.6% of a stratified random sample of the full-time instructors in visual arts departments within the 50 Texas public community college districts. Access to studio space and…

The relationship of the Stroop Color and Word Test (SCWT) to three independent measures of creativity: a verbal task, nonverbal task and teacher ratings were investigated. The purpose of this investigation was to test the validity of the SCWT as a measure of creativity. (Author/DEP)

Creativity theory supports the conclusion that when a person recognizes the isomorphism in an analogic construct, that insight is the essentially creative act. Infraconscious mentation is more likely to produce insightful analogies than is rigorous, willful, consciously rational mentation, because infraconscious mentation, operating in the mode of…

Presents some historical examples which illustrate the effects of social and cultural backgrounds on the appearance of creativeness. Included are suggestions necessary for the industrial, government, and university laboratories to enhance their employees' creativity. (CC)

Study evaluates an intensive training program with gifted young adults in inducing creativity. (GB)

Study submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the PhD degree at the University of Michigan, August 1967.

TO DEVELOP AND VALIDATE AN INSTRUMENT FOR IDENTIFYING CREATIVITY IN PREADOLESCENTS, 19 SUBJECTS, 17 OF WHOM WERE TEACHERS EVALUATED EIGHT DRAWINGS BY 10-12 YEAR OLDS USING THE FIVE POINT ROUSE SCALE. THIS SCALE COUNSISTS OF A SERIES OF DESCRIPTIONS OF GRAPHIC AND PLASTIC ARTS COVERING 20 ITEMS, SUCH AS SHAPE, TEXTURE, UNITY, ORIGINALITY, AND…

Nonverbal creativity, here primarily referring to scientific or mathematical creativity, is considered a function of a set of psychophysiological characteristics. The most important of these, necessary and sufficient for nonverbal creativity, is seen to be a slight dominance of hippocampal or cortical inhibitory activity over reticular, or…

Based on previous studies with college students, this study investigated the hierarchy and creativity of responses in young children. According to the theory of hierarchies, the uncreative person initially produces stereotyped responses and soon runs out of alternatives, while the creative person initially has common ideas but subsequent ideas are…

Some of the conceptual and methodological problems in identifying and measuring creativity in young children are presented. Among the issues raised are: (1) the prediction of validity of creativity tests, (2) the problem of predicting adult creativity from evidence of childhood creativity, and (3) the need to identify and adequately measure the…

This research project studied the effects of an experimental teacher training program designed to help teachers nurture creativity in their pupils during the initial year of a city school desegregation plan. A pretest-posttest control group design was employed. One-half of the teachers participated in an experimental in-service program throughout…

This summary is a condensation of a 119-page major research study. The project studied the effects of an experimental teacher training program designed to help teachers nurture creativity in their pupils during the initial year of a city school desegregation plan. A pretest-posttest control group design was employed. One-half of the teachers…

The Creativity Center, a consortium of 56 cooperating specialists, has as its primary objective the development of a computer-aided process which will assist the common man in solving the problems of daily life more creatively. The current model guides an individual by questions which lead to an acceptable solution to the problem. Over the…