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Impact of instruction on learning disabled students' creative thinking
Author(s) -
Jaben Twila H.,
Treffinger Donald J.,
Whelan Richard J.,
Hudson Floyd G.,
Staincack Susan B.,
Stainback William
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(198207)19:3<371::aid-pits2310190318>3.0.co;2-0
Subject(s) - psychology , torrance tests of creative thinking , creativity , creative thinking , learning disability , mathematics education , learning disabled , developmental psychology , social psychology
Forty‐nine pupils from learning disabilities intermediate‐level classrooms served as subjects in the study and were randomly assigned to an experimental and control group. The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking were used as pretests and posttests. The Purdue Creative Training Program was used to stimulate the learning disabled experimental group's divergent thinking abilities for 14 weeks. Pupils in the learning disabled experimental group made significantly higher scores than did the comparison group on the creativity variables of the verbal subtest of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking.