Developmental Trends in the Creativity of School-Age Children

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Creativity in technology education: providing children with glimpses of their inventive potential (2009, background): “There has been concern in the broader creativity discourse about fourth grade slump (the apparent decline of creativity in children between ages 9–10 and the onset of adolescence) and its possible causes (see Claxton et al. 2005), but little on whether there are curricular or instructional remedies.”
The Creativity Crisis: The Decrease in Creative Thinking Scores on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (2011, background): “Claxton, Pannells, and Rhoads ( 2005 ) found a slight increase in divergent-thinking scores between fourth and fifth grade.”
Developmental Trends of Creativity: What Twists of Turn Do Boys and Girls Take at Different Grades? (2010, background): “Such increasing patterns of creativity development in children and adolescents have been found also in other cultures and places (e.g., Claxton et al., 2005; Lopez et al., 1993).”
An Empirical Review of Research Methodologies and Methods in Creativity Studies (2003–2012) (2014, background): “Although a few aimed to map developmental trend of children’s creativity, such as Claxton, Pannells, and Rhoads’ (2005) work, some explored the predictive validity of creativity tests, such as Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (Runco, Millar, Acar, & Cramond, 2010).”