Abstract
AbstractThe effects of the Purdue Creative Thinking Program (PCTP) on the creative abilities of elementary school children in an underdeveloped country were evaluated in an experiment with 578 Brazilian fourth- and fifth-graders. At each grade level, twelve classes were assigned to each of two treatment conditions (PCTP with reinforcement and PCTP without reinforcement) and a control group which had no exposure to PCTP. Pre- and post-testing with the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) yielded twelve creativity measures. Using a 3 X 2 X 2 (treatment by sex by grade level) analysis of covariance, the creativity training was found to be effective, but reinforcement of pupil performance appeared to have a decremental effect.
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