Evaluations of creativity training programs are described: (1) Productive Thinking; (2) Purdue Creative Thinking; (3) Parnes; (4) Myers-Torrance workbooks; and (5) Khatena. Conceptual and methodological problems are discussed. Although gains on tests of divergent thinking have been noted, it is unclear whether these programs improve real-life…

The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), through its Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC), offers this set of combined resources that define and support ongoing teacher effectiveness to ensure students reach college and career ready standards. This document includes the "InTASC Model Core Teaching…

This submission contains the Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG), held at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. The CMESG is a group of mathematicians and mathematics educators who meet annually to discuss mathematics education issues at all levels of learning. The aims of the…

While little is known about the processes of creative cognition or about the structure of human memory, scholars do understand the immense task of unraveling the cortical structure and function of the human brain. Existing literature on creativity appears to obscure the processes of creativity far more than it clarifies the creative act. However,…

In this study, the relationship of selected characteristics of temperament and ideational fluency in preschool children was explored. Subjects were 58 children ranging in age from 46 to 72 months, with a sample mean age of 57 months. All subjects were given the Multidimensional Stimulus Fluency Measure (MSFM), a test of ideational fluency. Their…

Meta-analyses of the hypotheses that relationships exist between play and problem solving, and between play and creativity, were conducted. The data set for the meta-analyses included studies designed to investigate the relationship between play and fluency or originality, or between play and problem-solving behavior. The meta-analyses of…

In this fact sheet creativity is defined and stages in the creative process and characteristics of creative persons are discussed. Research approaches to creativity and blocks to the creative process are described. Six creative approaches to integrating creativity into counseling are delineated. (MCF)

This study examined the creative performance among siblings of various ordinal birth positions. Subjects were 36 male elementary students, nine sets of four brothers with no additional siblings of either sex in their families. Their families were primarily of middle socioeconomic status and both parents were college graduates. Each subject was…

Reports on research efforts to isolate and identify standards of judging creativity, and to develop judgment and objective correlate measures of creativity in writing. (RB)

One of the claimed benefits of Transcendental Meditation is increased creativity, although the literature neither supports nor negates such a claim. Four groups of 35 subjects each were studied over a six-month period and administered a battery of five creativity measures, both before and after the study period. One group of adults was enrolled in…

This document contains six essays originating from a workshop held at Estoril, Portugal by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The preface describes the focus of the project as an attempt to discover how schools could respond to societal pressures in ways that were both socially responsive and internally creative. The…

This study which involved 60 kindergarten and 69 second grade students sought to identify a significant relationship between internal control perception and creativity. Internal control refers to the perception of positive and/or negative events as being a consequence of one's own actions and thereby under personal control. The Bialer (1961) locus…

One in a series of over 50 similar selected listings relating to handicapped and gifted children, the bibliography contains 81 references on the gifted and creativity selected from Exceptional Child Education Abstracts. References include research reports, conference papers, journal articles, texts, and program guides, and are provided with…

Contained in the annotated bibliography are 73 references to research dealing with creativity and gifted children. Research covers such aspects as academic achievement, cognitive processes, creative thinking, individual characteristics, personality, student attitudes, teaching methods, testing, and program evaluation. The bibliography is one in a…

Thirty-two males were divided into high and low creative groups based on the Remote Associates Test and the Alternative Uses Tests. High creatives exhibited a lower basal alpha index, a higher basal theta index, differential amounts of alpha on creativity and intelligence tests, and were better at alpha control in a feedback situation than low…