The Manifesto
By E. Torrance. 2002
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More than 40 years ago, E. Paul Torrance undertook to study creativity in students and study whether it would predict their creative achievements as adults. He and his colleagues wanted to determine what other factors influence, predict, encourage or sustain their creativity over time. There has never been a longitudinal study of creativity of this magnitude. Its findings will be useful to, and have implications for, several audiences: parents, teachers, counselors—especially vocational counselors—university and college instructors, and educational administrators. The Manifesto for Children was developed on the basis of the responses of 215 young adults who had attended two elementary schools in Minnesota from 1958 to 1964. They had been administered some creativity tests each year, and they were followed up in 1980. On the basis of their questionnaire responses, the Manifesto was developed to describe their ongoing struggle to maintain their creativity and use their strengths to create their careers and to provide guidance to children. In 1998, they were followed up to assess their creative achievements and to validate the Manifesto. Some of the participants had attained eminence, while others had attained only mediocre careers.
Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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- Underachievement and Creativity: Are Gifted Underachievers Highly Creative? (2008, background): “His Manifesto for Children (Torrance, 2002) is based on these findings; reflected in his 7-, 12-, 22-, and 40-year longitudinal studies, which began in 1958; and show the importance of a child pursuing his or her own interests.”
- Can We Trust Creativity Tests? A Review of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) (2006, background): “6 Creativity Research Journal The results of the follow-up of 99 elementary school students at the 40-year interval are as follows (Torrance, 2002).”
- Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking as Predictors of Personal and Public Achievement: A Fifty-Year Follow-Up (2010, methodology): “The creative style of life (Torrance, 2002) was one criterion.”