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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Karwowski, Maciej; Gralewski, Jacek – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2013
The threshold hypothesis (TH) assumes the existence of complex relations between creative abilities and intelligence: linear associations below 120 points of IQ and weaker or lack of associations above the threshold. However, diverse results have been obtained over the last six decades--some confirmed the hypothesis and some rejected it. In this…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Item Response Theory, Creativity, Creative Thinking
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Gralewski, Jacek; Karwowski, Maciej – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2012
The goal of this study was to describe the relationship between the creative abilities and the school grades of high school students in Poland. Almost six hundred (N = 589) students from 34 high schools from all over Poland participated in the study. Their creative abilities were measured by using the Test of Creative Thinking-Drawing Production…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Intelligence, Grade Point Average
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Stapleton, Paul – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2011
The term "critical thinking" (CT) is frequently found in educational policy documents in sections outlining curriculum goals. Despite this frequency, however, precise understandings among teachers of what CT really means are lacking. In this study, 72 high school teachers in Hong Kong were surveyed and interviewed on their beliefs about the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Marin, Lisa M.; Halpern, Diane F. – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2011
Although the development and transfer of critical thinking skills are recognized as primary goals for education, there is little empirical evidence to help educators decide how to teach in ways that enhance critical thinking. In two studies, we compared explicit and imbedded instructional modes and assessed critical thinking with the Halpern…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Standardized Tests, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
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Sak, Ugur; Oz, Ozge – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2010
A research study using one-group pretest-posttest design was carried out on the effectiveness of the Creative Reversal Act (CREACT) on creative thinking. The CREACT is a new, teaching technique developed based on the theory of the janusian process. The research participants included 34 students who were attending 10th grade at a social studies…
Descriptors: Creativity, Pretests Posttests, Program Effectiveness, Scores