[[alternative]]A Study of the Effects of the de Bono’s CoRT Program on Primary School Gifted Students’ Linguistic Creativity

[[abstract]]This study aimed to investigate the effects of the de Bono’s CoRT program on primary school gifted students’ linguistic creativity. A nonequivalent pretest-posttest experimental design was applied to examine how the ten-week courses affect students’ ability of linguistic creativity. The subjects of this study involved thirty fifth grade gifted students from two elementary schools in Taipei city. Instruments used were: (1) New linguistic creativity test; (2) Creative essay writing; (3) Creative thinking process record; (4) Feedback questionnaire and (5) Creative note. The data were analyzed by ANCOVA and frequency ratio analyses. The important results are as follows: I. In terms of fluency, the experiment group makes a remarkable progress after the program. The result of ANCOVA also indicates that the scores of originality in the experiment group are significantly better than in the control group. As for the flexibility, there is no notable difference between the two groups. II. Regarding the creative essay writting, there is no significant different between the two groups. III. Most students of experiment group could apply some tactics in writing essays, and no case of unrestrained thinking is found. Furthermore, almost every tactic is evenly employed in the experiment group, while in the control group tactics used are limited, of which forty percent fall in the unrestrained thinking category. IV. Most experiment group students give positive responses to CoRT, and express what they have gained from it: 1.the apprehension and application of the techniques of creative thinking; 2.perception of one’s own progress and change. Given the above two, some students still feel that they do not progress much due to the innate weakness in creativity. V. The experiment group students have also developed capacities that apply to various situations in daily lives: creative design, inspiration stimulating, decision-making, dispute settlement, problem solving…etc. They could employ different tactics to cope with different situations, and thus achieve satisfying results.