The Creativity Checklist (CCh) is an eight-item measure developed specifically for the systematic identification of creativity observed by at least one other person. Each item is rated on the basis of that person's observations of individuals and scored on a scale that can vary from l=never to 5=consistently. Each individual's total creativity…

Various defintions of creativity are reviewed and classified according to the relative emphasis that each places on the product, the process, and the personal experience of creativity. The assessments of creative products are usually unreliable because of the problem of defining what is creative. Attempts at assessing the creative process fall…

This book is a study of developments in the field of creativity. The major topics include: (1) creativity as related to intelligence and personality; (2) the structure of intellect; (3) research into convergent and divergent thinking; (4) educational factors in creativity; (5) creativity and environment; and (6) current trends in creativity…

A review of research on the relationship between boredom and creativity led to findings such as the following: boredom often indicates a low level of creativity and a low level of awareness; people who seek physical thrills are frequently bored without stimulation, but do tend to show creativity; and boredom may lead to increased creativity in…

The introduction from a soon-to-be published book on the concept of visioneering -- engineering a vision into reality -- is printed here. The article discusses the creative process, its historical and research background, the use of creative problem solving in approaching challenges and making decisions, and the current language of creativity.…

This article presents a review and outline of the curriculum and supporting procedures of the instructional program used during the two years of the full-scale experiment, 1970-1972. (Authors/CB)

The mosaic construction test described here is based upon 242 mosaics made by research scientists, successful well-known writers, highly creative architects, senior honor students in engineering, student playwrights, mathematicians, and upper-division and graduate students in a course in personality assessment. (Author/CB)

This article presents the argument that being explicit about a previously implicit process has a profound sociological effect---it changes that process from an elitist to an egalitarian activity. (Author)

Discusses the facotrs involved in recognizing and encouraging creative ability, and summarizes creativity research to date. (SP)

Describes the Creative Studies Project, which proposes to increase the degree to which American education cultivates creative potential in our society. (Author/DR)

Describes research on creative processes, in which subjects were tested in a hypnotic experiment. (DR)

Author has attempted to call attention to the weaknesses of some prominent research in the field of art education and to point out what he thinks is the insidious nature of the propaganda that it generates and reinforces. (Author/LF)

The differential role of mobility in creativity and in intelligence suggests that horizontal mobility may be essential in creativity and vertical mobility in intelligence. (Author/WY)

This investigation was conducted to determine whether manipulation of authoritarian attitudes would have a consequent effect on creativity. The marked success in creativity change in all but the high-authoritarian males suggests that creativity and authoritarianism are part of a single underlying dimension called open-mindedness, closed-mindedness…

Presents the idea that research into creativity is an outgrowth of the study of dynamic intelligence and the gifted child. Creativity research has become an important area of study as evidenced by (a) the increasing quantity of research literature in the field, (b) the postulation of theories of creativity, (c) the development of instruments to…