Fifty students from intermediate level learning disabilities classrooms served as subjects. The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking were used as pretests and post tests to measure the effect of creativity instruction on the subjects' cognitive skills. For 14 weeks the Purdue Creative Thinking Program was used to stimulate the learning disabled experimental group's creative thinking. Subjects in the learning disabled experimental group made significantly greater scores than the learning disabled control group in divergent thinking as measured by the verbal and figural subtests of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking.
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