Comparative levels of creative ability among elementary school children.
Eighty-six black fourth-grade children and 111 white fourth-grade children randomly selected from normal classrooms in a rural country school system in Tennessee were compared on Torrance's Unusual Uses and Ask and Guess activities. No differences were found on the frequency or flexibility measures of either activity. No attempt was made to examine the results on any variable except race. Pearson Product Moment Correlations were computed on the Torrance Test results and Stanford-Binet intelligence test scores for both groups. The correlations were quite different with r = +.51 for the white students and r = +.22 for the black students.
D001741:Black or African American; D002648:Child; D003405:Creativity; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012424:Rural Population; D013714:Tennessee