This book challenges traditional notions of creativity as a trait, and brings forward ideas of multiple types of creativity, along with the possibility of development of creativity.

The Creativity Conundrum: A Propulsion Model of Kinds of Creative Contributions (Essays in Cognitive Psychology)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Sternberg, Robert J.

Kaufman, James C.

Pretz, Jean E.

Psychology & Counseling

Psychology Press

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

Baer, John

Plucker, Jonathan A.

wiley

Applied Intelligence

Typical texts develop students' knowledge while only minimally developing the general skills they will need for success in school and in life. The goal of our text is to assist students in acquiring the most important skills for facing the diverse challenges life presents. The book contains an overview of theories of intelligence, but itself is based in large part on a theory according to which individuals need creative skills to generate new ideas and a vision for the future, analytical skills to make sure that the vision is a good one, and practical skills to execute the ideas and to persuade other people of their value. The book considers key skills in problem solving, logical reasoning, analysis of arguments, knowledge acquisition, creative and practical thinking, automatizing information processing, and avoiding life traps that derail even the most intelligent among us.

Sternberg PhD, Robert J.

Grigorenko, Elena L.

Cambridge University Press

Documents the worst major league baseball pitchers from 1876 to 1992, including those with the worst seasons and the worst career statistics

The Worst Baseball Pitchers of All Time: Bad Luck, Bad Arms, Bad Teams, and Just Plain Bad

Sports & Outdoors

Kaufman, Alan S.

Baseball

Citadel Pr

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>
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Education & Teaching

Beghetto, Ronald A.

Schools & Teaching

Teachers' College Press

Biographies & Memoirs

McFarland Publishing

The Creativity Advantage

Creativity is usually seen as a good thing, but why? The Creativity Advantage first offers an overview of creativity studies with an emphasis on the little-discussed benefits of being creative. These include how creativity can lead to self-insight, help people heal, forge connections with others, inspire drive, and enable people to leave behind a meaningful legacy. Written in an engaging style and illustrated with interesting anecdotal material, this book offers a new perspective on creativity scholarship that can serve as an introduction to the field for newcomers or as a way to encourage new avenues for research.

Lessons in Creativity from Musical Theatre Characters

Lessons in Creativity from Musical Theatre Characters blends cutting-edge research, juicy anecdotes, lived experience, hands-on activities, and gentle advice to take readers on a journey to explore and enhance their own creativity.

Arts & Photography

Rowe, Dana P.

Music

Routledge

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