E Paul Torrance

Datos Biográficos

ID1043
NOMBREE Paul Torrance
NOMBRESE Paul
APELLIDOTorrance
FIRMATORRANCE E P
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Georgia
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS31
TOTAL DE CITAS16
TOTAL COMO AUTOR31
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1954
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN1987
ÍNDICE H2

  • Future Career Image as a Predictor of Creative Achievement in a 22-Year Longitudinal Study

    Open AccessE Paul TorranceARTICLEPsychological Reports1987

  • Alternative Procedures for Assessing Intellectual Strengths of Young Children

    Open AccessFredericka K Reisman, E Paul TorranceARTICLEPsychological Reports1980

    Children's scores on the Metropolitan Readiness Test were correlated with their creativity indicators on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, Figural Form B and performances on selected conservation tasks. Significant correlations were found among the three sets of measures. The creativity indicators appeared to be sensitive to identifying strengths not suggested by the other measures

  • Some Creativity and Style of Learning and Thinking Correlates of Guglielmino's Self-Directed Learning Readiness Scale

    Open AccessE Paul Torrance, Salah A Mourad et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1978

    In an exploratory study of the construct validity of Guglielmino's Self-directed Learning Readiness Scale, 41 graduate students in education were administered the following criterion measures: Sounds and Images (Originality), Thinking Creatively About the Future (Fluency and Originality), Schaefer's Simile Test (Originality), Templeton's Photoanalogies Test, Gershon and Guilford's Possible Jobs test, Khatena and Torrance's What Kind of Person Are…

  • Discovering Man in Psychology

    E Paul Torrance, Frank T SeverinARTICLEReview of Religious Research1976

  • Relationships Between Creative Thinking Abilities and a Measure of the Creative Personality

    Open AccessGerald Halpin, Glennelle Halpin et al.ARTICLEEducational and Psychological…1974

    Persons with creative abilities might be expected to have creative personality characteristics. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the relationships between a creative personality measure, What Kind of Person Are You? Test, and three verbal and four figural creative ability measures derived from the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. The subjects were 65 males and 164 female undergraduates enrolled in the introductory course in educatio…

  • The Child's World of Make-Believe

    E Paul Torrance, Jerome L SingerARTICLEAmerican Educational Research…1974

  • Effects of Triadic Interaction on Performance of Five-Year-Old Disadvantaged Children

    Roger W Peters, E Paul TorranceARTICLEPsychological Reports1973

  • Effects of blindness on creative thinking abilities of children

    Glennelle Halpin, Gerald Halpin et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology1973

  • Dyadic Interaction of Preschool Children and Performance on a Construction Task

    Open AccessRoger W Peters, E Paul TorranceARTICLEPsychological Reports1972

    26 children (5 each at ages 2, 3, 4, and 5 and 6 at age 6) in a day care center were administered a construction task both singly and in randomly constructed same sex dyads. Dyadic interaction had an over-all effect of increasing the number of blocks used but not the amount of time the children spent on the task. The influence of age was significant for both number of blocks used and amount of time spent. Only for the 6-yr.-olds does dyadic inter…

  • The Development of Causal Thinking of Children in Mexico and the United States

    Open AccessHasan Langgulung, E Paul TorranceARTICLEJournal of Cross-Cultural…1972Citada por: 1Referencias: 3

    From a larger data pool, random samples of 40 each were selected from the fourth and sixth grades in metropolitan areas in the United States and Mexico. In each sample the Ss were divided equally according to sex and economic status (advantaged and disadvantaged). Responses to the Guess Causes test of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking were analyzed for causal thinking. Analyses of variance and Duncan New Multiple Range tests indicate that t…

  • A Cross-Cultural Study of the Perception of Situational Causality

    Open AccessCrane Walker, E Paul Torrance et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cross-Cultural…1971Citada por: 3Referencias: 1

    This study was designed to test developmental, cross-cultural, and sex differences in the perception of situational causality. Three hundred fifty-nine (359) Ss were divided by grade (third and sixth), culture (United States and Indian), and sex. It was hypothesized that developmental, cross-cultural, and sex differences would be found in the perception of situational causality. Ss were shown a picture depicting a Mother Goose nursery rhyme and w…

  • Influence of Dyadic Interaction on Creative Functioning

    Open AccessE Paul TorranceARTICLEPsychological Reports1970

    Two experiments, one with college students and the other with 5-yr.-old children as Ss, were conducted to test the hypothesis that dyadic interaction will facilitate the production of original ideas among individuals. 20 college Ss were administered 4 tasks from the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking under standard conditions; 20 others randomly assigned to dyads from the same population were tested under the same conditions except that they wer…

  • Verbal Originality and Teacher Behavior

    Open AccessE Paul Torrance, Conchita A Tan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Teacher Education1970Citada por: 1

  • It's time you learned to eat peas with a fork

    E Paul TorranceARTICLETheory Into Practice1969

  • A Longitudinal Examination of the Fourth Grade Slump in Creativity

    Open AccessE Paul TorranceARTICLEGifted Child Quarterly1968

    From September 1959 to May 1964 the children enrolled in a university and a public elementary school were tested each year with a battery of tests of creative thinking. Relatively complete data were obtained for 350 children. A random sample of 100 cases was drawn from this pool for further analysis. All raw scores were converted to standard or T-scores based on fifth grade comparison group norms. The results showed that when studied longitudinal…

  • Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking

    Michael A Wallach, E Paul TorranceARTICLEAmerican Educational Research…1968

  • Rewarding Creative Behavior

    David Johnston, E Paul TorranceARTICLEBritish Journal of Educational…1966

  • Nurture of creative talents

    E Paul TorranceARTICLETheory Into Practice1966Citada por: 2

    1966). Nurture of creative talents. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 5, Creativity, pp. 167-173

  • Independent study as an instructional tool

    E Paul TorranceARTICLETheory Into Practice1966Citada por: 1Referencias: 1

  • The Question-Asking Behavior of Highly Creative and Less Creative Basic Business Teachers Identified by a Paper-and-Pencil Test

    Open AccessE Paul Torrance, Ethel HansenARTICLEPsychological Reports1965

    From the total population of basic business teachers in a large metropolitan area, criterion groups of highly creative and less creative teachers were selected on the basis of a battery of pencil-and-paper tests of creative thinking abilities. Detailed classroom observations were made of the six highly creative and six less creative basic business teachers during five different class sessions distributed throughout a semester. A record was made o…

  • Organizing Educational Research

    E Paul Torrance, Paul F Lazarsfeld et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Higher Education1965

    Organizing Educational Research: An Exploration." The Journal of Higher Education, 36(4), pp. 237–238

  • Education and the Creative Potential

    Dick Field, E Paul TorranceARTICLEBritish Journal of Educational…1964

  • Guiding creative talent.

    E Paul TorranceBOOK1962

  • The Chosen Few

    W R Niblett, W D Furneaux et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Educational…1962

  • Creative Thinking of Children

    Open AccessDavid G Ryans, E Paul TorranceARTICLEJournal of Teacher Education1962