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2nd E. Paul Torrance International
Roundtable on
Creative Thinking  
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The E. Paul Torrance International Roundtable on Creative Thinking



 Today’s computer can replicate all sorts of logical and information processing tasks but they cannot reproduce the imaginative thought processes of human brain. Thus, information and logic are cheap, creative thinking is priceless – Chris Griffiths, CEO ThinkBuzan and author of Grasp the Solution.


The E. Paul Torrance International Roundtable on Creative Thinking aims to refresh the work and legacy of Dr Torrance internationally especially among today's crop of creativity enthusiasts, push the boundary of knowledge on creative thinking as well as increase knowledge sharing within creative thinking sub field. It is hoped that each roundtable session will be written up for online publication on this page on the and as a chapter in KIE creativity book.















































Dr Torrance, father of modern creativity: 8 Oct 1915-12 Jul 2003

Download E. Paul Torrance International Roundtable Inagural Edition Special Newsletter












Download KIE Handbook of Creativity

Robert J. Sternberg: “I met Dr Torrance only a few times, but I was enormously impressed with the modesty he displayed, given his pre-eminence in the field”

Reisman Diagnostic Creativity Assessment (RDCA) Special Interest Group


Date: 22 June 2016



































About RDCA

RDCA - Reisman Diagnostic Creativity Assessment

The RDCA measures eleven aspects of creative thinking such as originality, fluency and flexibility of ideas, risk taking, resistance to premature closure, divergent and convergent thinking, tolerance of ambiguity, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and elaboration.

The RDCA is built upon the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT), the most widely used test of creativity. While the TTCT takes an hour to complete and must be scored by trained evaluators, the RDCA takes about ten minutes to complete and is scored automatically.
The RDCA assesses an individual’s self-perception of 11 creativity factors:

The total raw score is then calculated out of 240 points. The goal of the RDCA is to identify one’s creative strengths rather than to predict creativity. A score above 50% of the total possible points for each factor is judged as above average.

The Reisman Diagnostic Creativity Assessment (RDCA) is a free Apple App offered by Drexel University’s School of Educa tion and the Drexel-Torrance Center for Creativity and Innovation, and which may be  accessed via iTunes.



James Kaufman, Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut, gives a brief talk on creativity to the KIE Conference, 13 August, 2015, Istanbul, Turkey.

We invite you to write a living memorial for Dr Torrance – your own way of honouring, remembering, and carrying on the legacy of the widely acknowledged Father on Modern Creativity. Your thoughts and reflections like that of Dr Sternberg will be published on these pages.  Additionally, we intend to collate and publish all write-ups - thoughts, reflections, essays, etc - and distribute as a takeaway at the 2016 Torrance Roundtable in Berlin, Germany. There is no better time to honour the man whose tests  of creative thinking have been applied across the world. Send your write-up with brief bio and photo to: creativity  at kiecon . org


KIE Digital Cenotaph for the Centenary Birth Anniversary of

Dr E. Paul Torrance


E. Paul Torrance—My Teacher, My Mentor, My Co-Author, My Co-Researcher, My Friend, My Inspiration













I believed it to be most pleasurable for you to have me share with you an intimate look at Dr. Torrance—especially in this year honoring his 100th birthday. The title of my keynote portends that I will not be focusing on his brilliant theories and research, but rather on my very personal interactions with him and to a lesser extent, but just as rewarding, with his wife Pansy.

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Dr Fredricka K. Reisman, Director, Torrance-Drexel Centre for Innovation & Creativity, Drexel University, PA, USA

E. Paul Torrance:  I Called Him Ghandi 2

2015 Lead Discussant: Sandra M. Dingli, PhD

Associate Professor & Founding Director, The Edward de Bono Institute, University of Malta






15:50 – 15:55




James Ogunleye, Convenor & KIE Conference Chair

Welcome

15:55 – 16:00

Larry Keiser, Director of Special Projects & Certification Officer, Drexel University, USA Chair of Inaugural Roundtable

Introductory remarks

16:00 – 17:00

Keynote: Speaker TBC


17:00 – 19:00

Panel of Lead Discussants TBC


A panel discussion  on creativity – topics TBC

19:00 – 19.20

Looking Forward: Issues for future discussions  



19:20 – 19.30

Larry Keiser, Director of Special Projects & Certification Officer, Drexel University, USA Chair of Inaugural Roundtable

Concluding remarks


19:30 – 22:00


Wine Reception, Networking & Guitar Performance: no-limit local wine and nibbles

DRAFT OVERALL PROGRAM - 21 JUNE 2016

I first became acquainted with E. Paul Torrance’s work in 1984 in an extension course called “Creativity for Teachers.”  The text was The Search for Satori and Creativity.  

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Kathy Goff is Director of the Oklahoma Torrance Center for Creativity.