Recent research findings have challenged the idea that creativity is domain-general.  Domain Specificity of Creativity brings together the research information on domain specificity in creativity -- both the research that supports it and answers to research arguments that might seem to challenge it.  The implications for domain specificity affect how we move forward with theories of creativity, testing for creativity, and teaching for creativity.  The book outlines what these changes are and how creativity research and applications of that research will change in light of these new findings.Summarizes research regarding domain specificity in creativityOutlines implications of these findings for creativity theory, testing, and teachingIdentifies unanswered questions and new research opportunities

Domain Specificity of Creativity (Explorations in Creativity Research)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Baer, John

Psychology & Counseling

Academic Press

Creative Teachers, Creative Students

Creative Teachers, Creative Students

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Allyn&Bacon

Discover practical, step-by-step instructions for accurately and effectively assessing creativity with Essentials of Creativity Assessment, a guide that provides useful information about using solid theoretical and research-based evidence for creativity assessment. Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to effectively assess creativity, a popular measure of cognitive ability correlated with intelligence. Receive an overview of the wide variety of assessments that can be used to gauge creativity, enabling you to select the creativity assessment method that best fits the situations, groups of people, and programs that are involved.

Essentials of Creativity Assessment

Kaufman, James C.

Plucker, Jonathan A.

wiley

Volume One introduces SuperWrite theory and beginning transcription principles. The step-by-step approach to writing principles guides students to alphabetic writing success. Eight lessons develop personal success factors such as goal-setting, problem-solving, time management, attendance, and promptness. Updated keyboarding style references reflect current business practices.

SuperWrite: Alphabetic Writing System, Office Professional, Volume One

Lemaster, A. James

Computers & Technology

South-Western Educational Pub

Set of 20 Dictation Audio cassettes to accompany lessons 1-40

Business & Money

Processes & Infrastructure

Cengage Learning'

Volume Two emphasizes advanced transcription and includes a review of SuperWrite principles. Transcription develop-mental material in keyboarding styles, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, word usage, and grammar are also included.

SuperWrite: Alphabetic Writing System, Office Professional, Volume Two

Devotional Purity: A Handbook on Worship

Rod and Staff Publishers

Creativity and Divergent Thinking: A Task-Specific Approach

Do general-purpose creative-thinking skills -- skills like divergent thinking, which is touted as an important component of creative thinking no matter what the task domain -- actually make much of a contribution to creative performance? Although much recent research argues against such domain-transcending skills -- including several new studies reported in this book -- the appeal of such general skills remains strong, probably because of the theoretical economy and power such skills would provide. Divergent thinking, in particular, has had an incredible staying power. Despite its many flaws, divergent thinking remains the most frequently used indicator of creativity in both creativity research and educational practice, and divergent thinking theory has a strong hold on everyday conceptions of what it means to be creative. Reviewing the available research on divergent thinking, this book presents a framework for understanding other major theories of creativity, including Mednick's associative theory and a possible connectionist approach of creativity. It reports a series of studies (including the study that won APA's 1992 Berlyne Prize) that demonstrate the absence of effects of general creative-thinking skills across a range of creativity-relevant tasks, but indicate that training in divergent thinking does in fact improve creative performance across diverse task domains. The book then ties these findings together with a multi-level theory, in which a task-specific approach to creativity is strengthened by recasting some divergent-thinking concepts into domain- and task-specific forms. This book fills the gap between divergent-thinking theory and more recent, modular conceptions of creativity. Rather than advocate that we simply discard divergent thinking -- an approach that hasn't worked, or at least hasn't happened, because of many attacks on its validity and usefulness -- this book shows how to separate what is useful in divergent-thinking theory and practice from what is not. It shows that divergent-thinking training can be valuable, although often not for the reasons trainers think it works. And it offers specific suggestions about the kinds of creativity research most needed today.

Mental Health

Psychology Press

Teaching for Creativity in the Common Core Classroom

Creativity and the Common Core State Standards are both important to today’s teachers. Yet, for many educators, nurturing students’ creativity seems to conflict with ensuring that they learn specific skills and content. In this book, the authors outline ways to adapt existing lessons and mandated curricula to encourage the development of student creativity alongside more traditional academic skills. Based on cutting-edge psychological research on creativity, the text debunks common misconceptions about creativity, describes how learning environments can support both creativity and the Common Core, offers creative lessons and insights for teaching English language arts and mathematics, and includes assessments for creativity and Common Core learning. Featuring numerous classroom examples, this practical resource will empower teachers to think of the Common Core and creativity as encompassing complementary, rather than mutually exclusive, goals. Book Features: <ul>
<li> Shows how teaching skills mandated by the CCSS and teaching for creativity can reinforce one another.</li> <li> Helps teachers better understand what creativity is, how to develop it, and how to assess it in meaningful ways.</li> <li> Examines the many misconceptions about creativity that prevent teachers from doing their best work.</li> <li> Provides classroom examples, ideas, and lesson plans from successful teachers across disciplines.</li>
</ul>

Beghetto, Ronald A.

Teachers' College Press

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Domain Specificity of Creativity (Explorations in Creativity Research)

Creative Teachers, Creative Students

Essentials of Creativity Assessment

SuperWrite: Alphabetic Writing System, Office Professional, Volume One

SuperWrite: Alphabetic Writing System, Office Professional, Volume One

SuperWrite: Alphabetic Writing System, Office Professional, Volume Two

Devotional Purity: A Handbook on Worship

Creativity and Divergent Thinking: A Task-Specific Approach

Teaching for Creativity in the Common Core Classroom

Teaching for Creativity in the Common Core Classroom