A high-creative and a low-creative group of student teachers (ns = 40) were established on the basis of averaged ranks on a verbal and a nonverbal test of creative thinking Two series of classroom observations showed that high-creative group gave more original but not more fluent nor flexible teaching performance. A teacher-creativity index correlated significantly with more subtests of verbal test than of the nonverbal test of creative thinking.
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