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Paul Torrance Graduate Student
Research Award Recipients
Application
process and criteria
2006:
Rebecca Weidensaul Gigli
Paper
Dr. Torrance was a core member of Rebecca's doctoral committee and it was his joy to know
that the study of creativity would have new application in the realm of athletics. Early in his career he studied
creative movement in children and Rebecca was able to take the checklist he developed and utilize it in this study
of intercollegiate athletes. Rebecca was the final graduate student whose doctoral committee Paul Torrance joined,
and in Rebecca's words, she spent "precious time with Dr. Torrance during her trip to Georgia." Dr. Gigli completed
her degree around the time of Paul's passing.2005:
Patrick Auth
Patrick C.
Auth, Director of the Physicians Assistant (PA) Program
at Drexel College of Nursing and Health Professions, has
been awarded the 2005 E. Paul Torrance Graduate Student
Research Award. Patrick’s
research on the effectiveness of applied creativity in
improving the accuracy of clinical diagnoses has been adopted
by the Drexel PA curriculum and is being reviewed by national
PA training programs.
2005: Dawn
Horton
This research is intended to extend Vygotsky's theories of the sociocultural development of higher
mental processes to adult experts. The research will focus on adult experts and the dynamic reiterative
influences of individual experts and the cultural intellectual legacy, looking to see how experts create and
change knowledge within a particular domain, and to see how these experts are influenced by those changes.
2005:
Kyung Hee Kim
Presentation
This study explored the four Principles
of Confucianism and how they compare to creativity research
to discover how East Asian culture influences creativity.
In order to investigate the relationship between adherence
to Confucianism and creativity, 184 Korean educators’ scores
on a measure of Confucianism (Eastern-Western Perspective
Scale: EWPS) were compared with their scores on a measure
of creativity (Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking: TTCT
- Figural).
2004:
Denise Tabasco
Paper
Denise
Tabasco is the first to investigate the relationship between
Teacher Immediacy (degree of perceived physical and/or psychological
closeness between people) and Teacher Creativity as assessed
by the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, and its impact
on high school students' mathematics and/or science achievement.
Prior research at the college level has shown that teacher
immediacy results in positive student performance. Denise
is a high school mathematics teacher in New Jersey and is
pursuing a Ph.D. at Drexel University.
2004: Louise Whitelaw
Paper
& Presentation
Louise
Whitelaw is investigating the impact of teachers using
a
"heuristic diagnostic pedagogy" as a function
of their creativity and knowledge of generic influences
on learning on elementary grade students' achievement.
Heuristic diagnostic teaching is a creative problem-solving
pedagogy that involves knowing learner characteristics,
having in-depth content knowledge, and using a variety
of methods to bridge the learner and the content. This
approach is in contrast to the medical model of diagnose,
prescribe, remediate. Louise is a 4th grade teacher in
a charter school in Pennsylvania and is pursuing a Ph.D.
at Drexel University.
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