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Ritchie, Stephen M.; Edwards, John – Learning and Instruction, 1996
A study involving 22 Australian Aboriginal students, age about 11 years, and 12 controls found that a thinking skills program, the Cognitive Research Trust Program, can enhance their creative thinking in mainstream classrooms, but did not improve scholastic aptitude, academic achievement, thinking approaches, self-concept as a thinker, or locus of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Creative Thinking, Indigenous Populations