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Contribution of teacher ratings of behavioral characteristics to the prediction of divergent thinking and problem solving
Author(s) -
Houtz John C.,
Shaning Dennis J.
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<380::aid-pits2310190320>3.0.co;2-p
Subject(s) - psychology , openness to experience , irrational number , cognition , developmental psychology , test (biology) , standardized test , social psychology , clinical psychology , mathematics education , paleontology , geometry , mathematics , neuroscience , biology
Divergent thinking and problem‐solving performance of 382 fourth, fifth, and sixth graders from two suburban, middle‐class elementary schools was predicted from teachers' ratings of students' affective/behavioral characteristics and from standard intelligence and achievement test scores. Median Rs were. 61 and. 38, for full‐model (ratings plus cognitive measures) and reduced‐model (only ratings) predictions, respectively. Results across schools and sexes were similar, with teachers' ratings of sensitivity to beauty, risk taking, awareness of impulses and openness to the irrational, and sense of humor the most frequent significant predictors in addition to the standardized measures. The usefulness of affective/behavioral plus cognitive measures in creative thinking identification procedures is discussed.