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Category Archives: Creativity
A twist in traits
The Myers Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) is probably one of the most widely known personality type assessments. Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother Katharine Cook Briggs developed it from theories recorded by the well know psychologist Carl Jung. Neither Myers … Continue reading
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Tagged creative personality, extraversion, five factor model, introversion, Meyers Briggs type inventory
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Creative Semantics
Early psychology was considered a science that dealt with the causes and treatment of mental illness. Famed psychologist such as Sigmund Freud worked with neurotic and psychotic patients. His theories of psychoanalysis and resulting model of mental structure were based … Continue reading
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Tagged creative ability, creative acheivement, five factor model, semantics
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Creative compared to whom?
In the twentieth century, experimental psychological shifted from the study of the mentally ill to research on the cognitive and personality development of basically normal people. Soon there was a plethora of theoretical models on the formation of personality, with … Continue reading
The edge of psychotic
Writing synopsis of creativity research has led me to realize how much my spelling has deteriorated. Mostly I rely on the word processor’s spell check, but sometimes it doesn’t recognize the scientific terms; other times it doesn’t recognize my vague … Continue reading
Why create art?
Recently I took a hiatus from an almost daily habit of spending an hour or so writing poetry or fiction. It wasn’t really intentional. Mistakenly, I saw the two weeks work shut down at the end of the year as … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Creative destruction, Creative writing, Creativity, Joseph Schumpeter
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How much is their work worth?
In 1992, Dallas Public Schools tried out a reading/language arts portfolio assessment. A research project examined how well this portfolio program worked and found that the school district was unprepared to provide the time, money and technical quality required to … Continue reading
Defining the portfolio
Do you regret the time lost with state mandated assessments? What if the products being assessed were actually part of the learning experience. That is one of the ideas behind the move to assess students through their portfolios. However, before … Continue reading
The case for the case
Portfolio – a portable case for holding papers – a simple name for a collection of works into which a person has poured hours of deliberation and sweat. Today the portfolio is just as likely to be stored on a … Continue reading
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Tagged creative portfolio assessment, Creativity, Education, John Baer, portfolio, Teresa Amabile
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Elaboration: the hardest part of creative writing
Elaboration is the process of presenting and developing an idea, by adding more detail to explain the exterior situation so that the reader gains privileged access to interior thoughts of authors. Forming creativity into a product that someone else can … Continue reading
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Tagged Creativity, elaboration, Torrance Test of Creative Thinking
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The ogre of orginality
The creative writer combines originality, complexity, independence of judgment, and aesthetic sensitivity according to the research of Frank Barron, who was known for his in-depth studies of the creative mind. His subjects often took extremely complex elements to produce a … Continue reading
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Tagged Creativity, K through 12, originality, Torrence
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