The chronicle provides information on programs and offers articles of interest to gifted students and educators. Among entries are the following: "Myths about the Gifted" (which presents research relative to myths and negative attitudes regarding the gifted); "Four Faces of Creativity" (about a model for expanding and clarifying the nature of…

Students responded well to the opportunity to create their own final examinations. (JH)

The author shows how one child's creativity is destroyed in the pursuit of correct capitalization, neat margins, and good punctuation. (BD)

Article focused on the essence of instructional style in the modern school and the formulation of new goals of instruction for young people for lifelong education. (Author/RK)

Article investigated the contributions which physical education could provide for stimulating children to desire and seek a creative approach to learning. (Editor/RK)

This article deals with a comparison of the congruent and divergent aspects of expressionistic and phenomenological theories of aesthetics and some implications for aesthetic education. (Author)

Article considered the areas of most of the researches into art education and the problem of establishing clarity and priority in the theoretical framework of studies in the field. (Author/RK)

The intention of the study was to show that reliance on performance on New York Survey (mathematics) and National Educational Development Tests for the purpose of identifying individuals for guidance in mathematics might exclude creatively gifted children. (Author)

Discussed the expansion of perceptual learning and the thought processes that relate our ideas. (RK)

Author examined some logical connections between the creative process and the problem of human relations and argued that though antisocial behavior among creative people is normal and expected, it is neither required nor inevitable. (Author/RK)

Article focused on the introduction of creative ways of thinking early in the prospective teacher's college career thereby making him or her a more effective learner in all areas. (Author/RK)

This study examined the effect of the active pursuit of ballet as a hobby on personality. The study group consisted of 62 members of the junior ballet of the Finnish National Opera, ranging in age from 9 to 17 with the majority under 14. The dancers were given four self-esteem questionnaires which measured empathy, creativity, and other…

Critics of divergent thinking tests have argued that these tests only tap more conventional expressions of intelligence, such as the intelligence quotient. This study was undertaken to examine the relationship between divergent thinking and scores on the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (KABC), a measure which assesses sequential processing…

A creativity test along with both a self-concept battery and a behavior rating scale were administered to 55 first-grade children to see whether there existed a link between certain self-concepts such as anxiety, dependency, ego strength, attention, sense of identity, social conformity, behavior, intellectual and school status, physical…

Arguments in favor of and against the use of literary works in second language instruction are examined. Although access to literary works was once a major purpose of language study, literature is currently in disfavor as a means of language instruction. Arguments against the use of literature in language courses include its lack of practical…