Torrance's Ideal Child Checklist was administered to 47 Middle Tennessee high school teachers. A rank-order correlation of .20 was found between perceptions of these teachers and perceptions held by Torrance's sample of experts on creativity.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
CohenL. D.Dogmatism and views of the “ideal pupil.”Educational Review (Univer. of Birmingham, England), 1972, 24, 3–10.
2.
TorranceE. P.The creative personality and the “ideal pupil.”Teachers College Record, 1963, 19, 220–227.
3.
TorranceE. P.Rewarding creative behavior. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1965.
