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Sneak Preview: Annotated working outline of "The Creativity Playbook," by James S. Catterall. Click above for download. Do not cite without author permission (james@croc-lab.org). Comments welcomed.
CRoC is a research institution dedicated to understanding creative behavior and motivation -- and programmatic experiences that can boost creativity. The Centers were founded in 2011 by Professors James S. Catterall of University of California and
Anne Bamford of the University of the Arts in London, UK. A featured CRoC project has been the creation and testing of what we call the Next Generation Creativity Survey, an assessment tool that uses traditional self-report scales along with ratings of original student work to assess creative skills and motivations. The survey was
piloted during 2012-13 in eight art, science, and social problem
solving programs across the USA
A second phase of pilot testing is under way this year in 35 art and science programs in Connecticut, New York, Florida, Burbank, Tustin CA, Los Angeles,
Wasco, CA, Avenal, CA, Kettleman City, CA, Las Vegas,
and Nashville. In summer 2014 we begin a two-year study
of creative development in second-wave President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities Turnaround Schools adopting an
A+ model in rural Louisiana.
The Centers engage in contract program research and evaluation on a limited basis, especially where creative development and motivation are among program goals.
Sample evaluation research projects are described briefly below.
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Co-Principal Investigators
James S. Catterall, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, UCLA
Graduate School of Education & Information Studies;
UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development
Email: james@croc-lab.org jamesc@gseis.ucla.edu
UCLA Faculty webpage: https://gseis.ucla.edu/about/people/catterall/
Member:
American Psychological Association
Cognitive Neuroscience Society
American Educational Research Association
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Corporate Board: Society for Mind/Brain Science
James Catterall CV here:
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Anne Bamford, PhD MA CA, B Ed, Dip Teach
Professor, University of the Arts, London U.K.
Founder of The Engine Room, Wimbledon College of Art
Author of The Wow Factor, Global Research Compendium
on the Impact of the Arts in Education. New York: Waxmann. (2006)
Recipient of the National Teaching Award (UK)
Email: anne@annebamford.com
Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts
Senior Affiliate Scholar:
Mark A. Runco, Ph.D. Torrance Professor of Creativity Studies and Gifted Education
University of Georgia
Editor (since 1989), The Creativity Research Journal.
Professor, University of the Arts, London U.K.
Founder of The Engine Room, Wimbledon College of Art
Author of The Wow Factor, Global Research Compendium
on the Impact of the Arts in Education. New York: Waxmann. (2006)
Recipient of the National Teaching Award (UK)
Email: anne@annebamford.com
Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts
Senior Affiliate Scholar:
Mark A. Runco, Ph.D. Torrance Professor of Creativity Studies and Gifted Education
University of Georgia
Editor (since 1989), The Creativity Research Journal.
CRoC Bulletin Board
Updated February 2014
What's up at CRoC?
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Active Projects as of November 10, 2013
Creative growth assessments:
Musicals in Schools, Las Vegas NV
Big Ideas Laboratories Powered by Disney (with ArtScience Prize and
the Boys and Girls Clubs of Orlando, New York City, Bristol CT,
Burbank CA, and Tustin CA).
PS Arts of Venice CA, Teaching artist programs in Lawndale CA
and the Central Valley, CA. Two-year longitudinal study.
Assessment of the Creativity Laboratory, Inner-city Arts, Los Angeles (this completes a two-cycle evaluation. The first cycle report is available in its entirety below.
Ten year developmental study of students and alumni at The Wooden Floor, Santa Ana CA.
Get Lit - Words Ignite of Los Angeles. A classical and original poetry program.
Inner-city Arts AEMDD In-school visual art and theatre.
Mount Madonna School Science Dept. Watsonville CA
Other studies:
School Greening Program, Tree People, Los Angeles
Reports Forthcoming
Study of PR373, Staten Island
Musical Theatre production with ASD elementary students.
Completed report under sponsor review:
Interim creativity assessment report on four elementary
and secondary after school programs (theatre, graphic design,
toy design, and electrical circuit design funded
by the Walt Disney Company). Under review.
Program reports completed.
Musicals in the Schools, New York and Nashville;
ArtScience Prize program, Boston, Playworks (Oakland). An elementary
youth playground leadership program.
All reports are under review.
Musical Theatre and ASD Children
In spring 2013, CRoC assessed a pioneering musical theatre program in a Staten Island elementary school serving ASD (autistic spectrum diagnosed) children. Prof. Catterall and on-site Director Mark Corallo presented a preliminary report of this project to a conference on research and special needs children at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC in early August. The report will be available on the CRoC website after client and peer review.
Logistical outcomes of the first year pilot:
1) We now have Next Generation
Creativity Survey forms for younger children (grades 3-5) and
for older students (grades 6-12).
2) We have shortened the survey, while maintaining alignment
with the original survey, so that administration time is
between 25 and 30 minutes. Our pilot forms required 44 minutes.
Selected CRoC Research and Evaluation Contracts
Completion of "The Creativity Playbook, a Guide to the Creativity Debates" by James S. Catterall. Supported by the Panta Rhea Foundation. Under review by the University of Chicago Press. See annotated outline for download, above.
P.S. ARTS Los Angeles and Central Valley CA
Two-year longitudinal study of artist residencies in
music, visual arts, and theatre. Herb Alpert Foundation;
The Keck Foundation.
The Wooden Floor (nee St. Joseph's Ballet) Santa Ana CA
Design and launch of 10-year longitudinal study.
After-school dance program and social
and academic supports. James Irvine Foundation and others.
Los Angeles County Department of Public Works
Annual Evaluations of Generation Earth
Service Learning Environmental Programs.
Los Angeles County Department of Public Works
Tree People of Los Angeles
School Greening program. Analysis of
participant surveys.
Get Lit - Words Ignite
Evaluation of teen classical and original poetry programs.
Official judge, Los Angeles Teen Classic Poetry Slam 2012.
LA's Best After School Arts Programs
Music, Dance, Visual Art, and Theatre Programs.
(Studies of artistic skill development)
Inner-City Arts -- Arts Education Model Development
and Dissemination Programs. United States
Education Department.
Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
Six Year Longitudinal Study published in Champions of Change.
Inner-City Arts Creativity Laboratory
Exploration and first follow-up study.
Little Rock AR Public Schools/United States District Court:
An Evaluation of Extended-Year Schooling in the Little Rock Public Schools (pursuant to school desegregation order under Joshua v. LRSD, 2004). Little Rock, AR: Little Rock School District, 2005).
An evaluation of the A+ School Arts Program in the Little Rock Public Schools (pursuant to school desegregation order under Joshua v. LRSD, 2004). Little Rock, AR: Little Rock School District, 2006).
Our supporters include, or have included:
The United States Education Department,
P.S. ARTS/Herb Alpert Foundation, the Keck Foundation,
The Grammy Foundation,The Wooden Floor,
Santa Ana CA, the Panta Rhea Foundation, Sausalito CA, the VSA
Organization, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,
the Walt Disney Company, and GetLit-Words Ignite/Entertainment Industry Foundation, and Tree People of Los Angeles, President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities (PICAH).
Is a state creativity index in your future?
(10 states are considering this.)
A new CRoC publication related to
potential Creativity Index systems
will be available on this site soon:
Tomorrow's Quality Assurance in Education: Assessing
Creative Thinking Capacity and Creative Motivation in the Schools.
Erlangen, Germany: INRAEE International
Yearbook on Arts Education, May 2013.
Anne Bamford and James S. Catterall
The Status of System Creativity:
Going Beyond the Course Count
Our Next Generation Creativity Survey, an instrument for gauging creative performance and motivation, can contribute to a Creativity Index and may be piloted for this in 2013. We refer here to the Status Form of the survey which is included in the NGCS Handbook.
By assessing individual creative thinking and motivation, the NGCS measure goes beyond current models that rely only on counting curricular and afterschool offerings. Current creativity index designs provide a limited indication of creativity in the curriculum and are not useful for assessing creativity learning among students.
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Selected Video Presentations
Arts and the Mind
This PBS-2 hour documentary has premiered and was shown nationwide. Features Inner-City Arts Creativity Lab; The Get Lit teen poetry program, P.S. ARTS, and other programs.
http://www.pbs.org/programs/arts-mind/
This show can be streamed at the above website. The program features host,
Lisa Kudrow, James Catterall, Antonio Damasio, Charles Limb, Jay Geidd,
Kristen Paglia at P.S. Arts, Los Angeles, Ellen Winner at Harvard Project Zero,
Diane Luby Lane at Get Lit - Words Ignite, Los Angeles,
Inner-City Arts, Los Angeles, and others.
Video: March 30, 2013 Presentation by James Catterall to the National Arts Council
"The Arts and Achievement in At-risk Students: Findings from Four Longitudinal Studies" by James S. Catterall with Prof. Susan Dumais (LSU) and Prof. Gillian Hampden-Thompson (University of York, UK).
Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
See the NEA webcast here; Presentation begins at count: 1:03:30
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/national-council-on-the-arts-3-30-2012
Video interview with CRoC's Director:
Kentucky Educational TV: "One to One" with James Catterall, April 2011
Paste the following link into your browser: about 26 minutes
http://www.ket.org/cgi-bin/cheetah/watch_video.pl?nola=KONON+000616&altdir=&template=
Program report available for reading here:
Exploration of the Inner-City Arts Creativity Lab.
Phase 1 Report
Funding by the Walt Disney Company.
Scroll to read entire report below:
What we are reading:
The Luminaries (2013 Mann Booker Prize Winning novel)
The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity (J.C. Kaufman and
R.J. Sternberg, Editors) (2010)
ArtsEdSearch (www.aep.org)
Includes forty "Creativity" related research articles archived
in artsedsearch -- the Arts Education Partnership's new
searchable research database. This AEP project was
headed by Dr. James Catterall and Dr. Michael Sikes
About our team
Key colleagues on CRoC projects are: James S. Catterall, Professor Emeritus UCLA and CRoC Director, Mark A. Runco, Torrance Professor of Creative Studies, University of Georgia, Prof. Anne Bamford, University of the Arts, London, Ms. Kim G. Zanti, CRoC Assistant Director, Rebecca Epps Catterall, M.A.T, Research Associate, Nellie Chaban, MA, Research Associate, Jillian Greenberg, MFA, Research Assistant, Stephen Tracy, Ed.D. Research Associate, and Research Assistants Ms. Jessica Lowry (classroom observation), Daniel Bamford and Ms. Hannah Beth Catterall, (survey management), Ms. Sarah Jean Johnson, Ms. Robyn Feeley, and Ms. McKenna Kerrigan (classroom observation, Lindsay Carey, Tania Reza, and Ms. Maya Didrikson, (data management).
Our informal advisors.
Many colleagues have been very helpful as we conceived and nurtured this project. Among these are: Steven Lavine, President, California Institute for the Arts; Prof. Mark Runco, University of Georgia, Malissa Ferruzi Shriver, Immediate Past President, California Arts Council, Eric Booth, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center, Columbia College of Chicago, Robin Lithgow, Senior Administrator, Arts Education Branch, retired, Los Angeles Unified School District, Linda Johannesen, Los Angeles, and Ms. Lisa Mitchell, Disney Theatrical Productions NY.
Recommended publications, manuscripts:
Paper still seeking comments. The manuscript downloadable below is available prior to publication for reader comments. A neuroscience of art and human empathy: Aligning behavioral and brain-imaging evidence. J.S. Catterall, August 2011. Please send comments via email to the author (jamesc@gseis.ucla.edu). Files containing the paper and its Figure 5 are here: |
See the 2009 book by James S. Catterall:
Doing Well and Doing Good by Doing Art: A 12-Year National Study of Education in Visual and Performing Arts. Effects on the Achievements and Values of Young Adults. Los Angeles, CA: I-Group Books. Book Cover rendered in pastels by Ms. Robyn Feeley, BungalowArt.Com Available at Amazon.com -- 40% discount. 5000 copies in print. NEW STUDY: Available at NEA's website: (www.Arts.Gov) "The Arts and Achievement in At-Risk Youth: Findings from Four Longitudinal Databases" Authors: Prof. James S. Catterall, CRoC, Susan A. Dumais, Associate Professor of Sociology, Louisiana State University, and Prof. Gillian Hampden-Thompsen, Director of Research, Department of Education, University of York, U.K. |
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Another downloadable article / research study of links between creativity and self-efficacy. Study hosted in visual arts programs for 4th graders in Los Angeles (Inner-City Arts) and St. Louis, MO (Center of Creative Arts).
Cambridge J. of Education. Learning in the Visual Arts and the Worldviews of Young Children. (James Catterall with Prof. Kylie A. Peppler, Learning Sciences Program, Indiana University). See cje link below for this.
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Cambridge J. of Education. Learning in the Visual Arts and the Worldviews of Young Children. (James Catterall with Prof. Kylie A. Peppler, Learning Sciences Program, Indiana University). See cje link below for this.
Please note: Our web portal remains down. Along with your good comments and questions, CRoC has been receiving many commercial and just plain non-sensical messages. These apparently are launched indiscriminately by BOTs scouring the net for places to send stuff.
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