THE MODIFICATION OF SENTENCE STRUCTURE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO SUBJECTIVE JUDGEMENTS OF CREATIVITY IN WRITING1

The present study objectively defined and manipulated some compositional variables in 10‐sentence stories written by fourth‐, fifth‐, and sixth‐grade students, and related these operationally defined variables to subjective judgements of creativity. Points, exchangeable for candy and extra recess, w...

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Published in:Journal of applied behavior analysis 1973, Vol.6 (3), p.425-433
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