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Comparison of Children's Performance on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking and Selected Piagetian Tasks
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1979
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships of children's performance on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) and on selected Piagetian tasks of conservation. Study subjects, 133 kindergarten and first grade multi-racial boys and girls, were administered the TTCT-Figural Form A and selected Piagetian tasks of conservation of number, of discontinuous quantity, of mass and of time measurement. Two assumptions were tested: (1) that characteristics of creative thinking, such as flexibility of thought and resistance to premature closure, in particular, also underly ability to conserve, and (2) that those children who attained an above average creativity index on the TTCT would be early conservers. Analysis of variance yielded significant correlations at the .001 level that indicated that conservers were more resistant to premature closure and their thinking was more flexible than non-conservers. A multiple regression of the creativity variables that were significant as a result of canonical correlation was done to identify those useful in predicting readiness for conservation. Piaget's notion of reversibility of thought is brought into question. Conservation is interpreted as reconciling simultaneous opposites or "Janusian thought" taken from the creativity literature. (Author/MP)
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- Title
- Comparison of Children's Performance on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking and Selected Piagetian Tasks
- Creators
- Fredricka ReismanE. Paul Torrance
- Publisher
- Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse
- Resource Type
- Report
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]
- Identifiers
- 991021861651804721