TY - JOUR AU - Torrance, E. Paul AB - the of School Children Predicting Creativity Elementary (1958-80) —and the Teacher Who "Made a Difference" E. Paul Torrance This is a of 22 of research preliminary report on The Teachers and What years Did They the adolescent and adult creative achievements predicting to Make a Difference of school children and some of the elementary things their teachers did that &dquo;made a difference.&dquo; in I asked the who in this fol- 1958 young people participated Beginning and to to think of some continuing all enrolled in two low-up study try incident in which one through 1964, pupils schools were administered vari- of their teachers had creative Minneapolis elementary elementary encouraged ous batteries of the Torrance Tests Creatiue behavior and how this had made a difference in their of Thinking each Scores over a careers. year. three-year were combined period to a Index. In the yield data of of had in recal- Creativity 1979-80, follow-up Many respondents great difficulty adolescent and adult creative behavior were obtained incident of this also ling any single type. had They difficulty from 220 women and 102 in (118 men) of the 400 singling out any one teacher who had their originally encouraged three tested, for TI - Predicting the Creativity of Elementary School Children (1958-80) —and the Teacher Who "Made a Difference" JF - Gifted Child Quarterly DO - 10.1177/001698628102500203 DA - 1981-04-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/predicting-the-creativity-of-elementary-school-children-1958-80-and-cDccsuDO06 SP - 55 EP - 62 VL - 25 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -