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Peer reviewedTorrance, E. Paul; Safter, H. Tammy – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1989
A 22-year longitudinal study of the "Just Suppose" Test is reported. Five criteria of later achievement were correlated with such test measures as fluency, originality, and emotional expression. Correlation coefficients were statistically significant in 27 of the 35 cells with the overall Creativity Index being most predictive of…
Descriptors: Achievement, Creative Activities, Creativity, Creativity Research
Grossman, Marvin; Torrance, E. Paul – Art Educ, 1970
Descriptors: Art Activities, Creative Activities, Disadvantaged Youth, Discovery Processes
Peer reviewedTorrance, E. Paul; Torrance, Pansy – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1972
Article is based on an evaluation report of a creativity workshop for disadvantaged children conducted in 1971. (Authors)
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Expression, Curriculum, Disadvantaged Youth
Download full textTorrance, E. Paul – 1976
After a brief historical review of the place of creativity in educational programs, this article argues that we are moving into a new phase in educational thinking about the role of creativity in education. Educational objectives now include many aspects of creative behavior. The use of textbooks, supplementary materials, tests, and training…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Educational Philosophy
Torrance, E. Paul – Gifted Child Quart, 1969
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Creative Activities, Creativity, Exceptional Child Research
Myers, Robert E.; Torrance, E. Paul – 2003
This book contains 52 units designed to assist teachers in helping their students improve their creative writing and communication skills, improve their skills in creative problem solving, and enlarge, enrich, and make more accurate their images of the future. Each unit begins with an overview of the activity, an explanation of the creative…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Activities, Creative Thinking, Creative Writing
Torrance, E. Paul – 1969
This pamphlet touches on definitions of creativity; its manifestations and methods of measurement on the preschool, elementary, high school, and college levels; its pattern of development; non-test ways of identifying creative behavior; and an explanation of creative learning. Common blocks to creative development are delineated, and a section…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creativity
