MORCEGOS: A Portuguese Enrichment Program of Creativity Pilot Study With Gifted Students and Students With Learning Difficulties

Abstract

The enrichment program MORCEGOS (motivation, originality, reasoning, curiosity, elaboration, generalization, observation, and sensibility toward problems) is described in this article. The main goal of this program is to develop creativity in 2 very different school groups: Group A—gifted students (6–14 years) and Group B—students with learning difficulties (12–16 years). For that purpose, an enrichment program was implemented during the school year (2 hr each week). These are the first results of the research from the 2002 school year. To analyze the effect of the program, a pretest was used, Form A of the Figural Test of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking; at the final evaluation, Form B was used. The similarities and discrepancies that may provide researchers important elements for studies in this domain are emphasized.