52 pupils from Grades 5 and 6 were given the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking as pretests and posttests to measure the effect of instruction in creativity on the productive thinking skills of these subjects. For 14 the Purdue Creative Thinking Program was used to stimulate the taught group's thinking. Trained subjects made significantly higher scores than the control group on the figural subtests.
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