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Creativity from a Talent Development Perspective

How It Can Be Cultivated in the Schools

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Creatively Gifted Students are not like Other Gifted Students

Part of the book series: Advances in Creativity and Giftedness ((ACAG,volume 5))

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American creativity is in a crisis, at least according to two respected pop culture authors writing in Newsweek on recent trends in creativity. According to Bronson and Merryman (2010), American creativity scores, once ever-rising, are now in a state of steady decline. They cite in their Newsweek article a study by Kyung Hee Kim (2011) at the College of William & Mary, who analyzed almost 300,000 scores on a popular creativity test—The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (Torrance, 1990, 2008).

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  1. College of William and Mary, Virginia, USA

    Kyung Hee Kim

  2. California State University, San Bernardino, USA

    James C. Kaufman

  3. Rider University, New Jersey, USA

    John Baer

  4. The University of Montana, USA

    Bharath Sriraman

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Pfeiffer, S.I., Thompson, T.L. (2013). Creativity from a Talent Development Perspective. In: Kim, K.H., Kaufman, J.C., Baer, J., Sriraman, B. (eds) Creatively Gifted Students are not like Other Gifted Students. Advances in Creativity and Giftedness, vol 5. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-149-8_15

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