Finding the Problem: How Students Approach Problem Identification
Publication date: Available online 10 February 2020Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Lisa DaVia Rubenstein, Gregory L. Callan, Kristie Speirs Neumeister, Lisa M. Ridgley (Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity)
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - February 11, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research
The Creative Student in the Eyes of a Teacher: A Cross-Cultural Study
Publication date: Available online 10 February 2020Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Maciej Karwowski, Jacek Gralewski, Timothy Patston, David H. Cropley, James C. KaufmanAbstractHow teachers perceive creative students, and what are the commonalities and specificities of such perception among teachers from different countries? To explore this question, we asked teachers from Australia, Italy, Poland, and the United Kingdom (total N = 933) to answer a set of items describing different traits of their students. Network and factor analyses revealed that teachers’ perception of creative students synthesize...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - February 11, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research
The development of mathematical creativity across high school: Increasing, decreasing, or both?
Publication date: Available online 4 February 2020Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Adeline L. Tubb, David H. Cropley, Rebecca L. Marrone, Tim Patston, James C. KaufmanAbstractThe advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) and a broader digital transformation of society is driving both a renewed focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education as well as a recognition that creativity is a prerequisite for employment in the 21st century. Together, these elements are the catalyst for a key question: what is the impact of school education, in its broadest sense, on the d...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - February 5, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research
Adaptive Expertise and Creative Thinking: A Synthetic Review and Implications for Practice
This article presents a critical review and synthesis of theories in two distinct bodies of the research literature: adaptive expertise and creative thinking. Based on our analysis, we propose that the two constructs overlap as “applied creative thinking”, denoting the kind of creativity that occurs when learned knowledge or acquired expertise is used adaptively and creatively. Implications for teaching and learning in higher education achievement settings are discussed, and directions for future research are suggested to better understand factors influencing the skills and competencies needed by graduates in an innova...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - January 27, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research
Improv Experience Promotes Divergent Thinking, Uncertainty Tolerance, and Affective Well-Being
ConclusionsAs a means to enhance psychological health, improvisational theater training offers benefits without the negative stigma and difficulties in access surrounding other therapeutic interventions. These results support its popular use beyond the theater to improve social and personal interactions in a variety of settings (e.g., Tint & Froerer, 2014). (Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity)
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - January 23, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research
Applying project-based learning and SCAMPER teaching strategies in engineering education to explore the influence of creativity on cognition, personal motivation, and personality traits
Publication date: Available online 22 January 2020Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Ting-Ting Wu, Yu-Tzu WuAbstractBecause of paradigm shifts in target markets, skills necessary for employment in the engineering industry include those honed through interdisciplinary experiences and creative thinking. Therefore, modern engineering education should focus on developing students’ innovative thinking and ability to solve engineering problems by designing creativity courses that foster students’ creativity, critical thinking, and transfer of learning skills. Moreover, creativity training methods in engineering...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - January 22, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research
Towards a Performing Creative Characteristics Scale (PCCS) for Chinese Young Children
Publication date: Available online 22 January 2020Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Miranda Chi Kuan Mak, Keang-ieng Peggy Vong, Shuyang Lu, Shing On LeungAbstractCreative characteristics (CC), though with worldwide recognition of its importance, have been found with differences in perspectives between the east and the west, and the measurement of creativity is diverse. Therefore, the aims of this study are to (1) develop a Performing Creative Characteristics Scale (PCCS) and provide support for its use in measuring young Chinese children’s creative characteristics, (2) investigate the differences between ...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - January 22, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research
The association between creativity, creative components of personality, and innovation among Taiwanese nursing students
Publication date: Available online 16 January 2020Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Hsing-Yuan Liu, Chia-Chen Chang, I-Teng Wang, Shu-Yuan ChaoABSTRACTThe link between creativity, aspects of personality associated with creativity, and innovation are unclear with regards to nurses and nursing education. This cross-sectional, descriptive, correlational study explored levels of creativity, creativity personality, and innovation among nursing students, and the association between these variables. Senior-year nursing students (N = 98) at a university in Northern Taiwan participated in this study. All were enr...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - January 17, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research
Linking Spatial Ability, Spatial Strategies, and Spatial Creativity: A Step to Clarify the Fuzzy Relationship Between Spatial Ability and Creativity
This study expands understanding of the link between creativity and spatial ability by proposing a holistic framework for creative spatial design. (Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity)
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - January 12, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research
Evaluating University Students’ Critical Thinking Ability as Reflected in their Critical Reading Skill: A Study at Bachelor Level in Pakistan
This study has aimed to evaluate university students’ critical thinking ability as reflected in their critical reading skill. To explore this aim, the present study has set four research objectives which include to understand university students’ attitude towards critical thinking, find out the relationship between university students’ critical thinking ability and their critical reading skill, know whether critical thinking is a positive predictor for the overall score of critical reading, evaluate university students’ performance in exhibiting their attitude towards critical thinking, critical thinking test (CTT)...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - January 5, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: research
Creative Interdisciplinary Collaboration: A Systematic Literature Review
Publication date: Available online 26 December 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Regina Moirano, Marisa Analía Sánchez, Libor ŠtěpánekAbstractA systematic literature review was conducted to condense recent contributions on interdisciplinary collaboration for creativity as a strategic approach to aim innovation. Sixty-one documents from the period of the last five years were selected from Scopus. Findings were analyzed to identify what has currently been investigated about interdisciplinary collaboration in creativity; namely, what types of problems emerge within interdisciplinary collaboration and w...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - December 27, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Creativity and education: A bibliometric mapping of the research literature (1975–2019)
Publication date: March 2020Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity, Volume 35Author(s): Daniel Hernández-Torrano, Laura IbrayevaAbstractThe scientific study of creativity begins in the mid-twentieth century. Progressively, creativity has become an educational imperative and its study in educational contexts has generated a wealth of research from different theoretical and empirical perspectives. This bibliometric review aims to undertake a systematic mapping of the research trends within the field of creativity in education contexts over the last 45 years using metadata extracted from the Web of Science database. Major fi...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - December 26, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Creativity and education: A bibliometric mapping of the research literature (1975-2019)
Publication date: Available online 18 December 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Daniel Hernández-Torrano, Laura Ibrayeva (Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity)
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - December 19, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
A cross-cultural study: Teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs for teaching thinking skills
Publication date: Available online 30 November 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Yalcin Dilekli, Erdogan TezciAbstractThe primary aim the study was to explore how teachers’ self-efficacy belief for teaching thinking change with respect to their countries, genders, teaching fields, professional seniority. To achieve this aim, Teachers’ Self-Efficacy Towards Teaching Thinking Skills Scale was used in the study. The scale was translated into English, Romanian, Spanish, Italian, German, and Polish from the original Turkish form of the scale. Data were collected from 653 teachers from six different countr...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - November 30, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Advance Organizers in Flipped Classroom via E-learning Management System and the Promotion of Integrated Science Process Skills
Publication date: Available online 26 November 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Abdellah Ibrahim Mohammed Elfeky, Thouqan Saleem Yakoub Masadeh, Marwa Yasien Helmy ElbyalyAbstractFlipped Classroom (FC) has been considerably investigated in research and practice contexts because of the capacity it assumes to have in enhancing learners’ outcomes. However, research that explores advance organizers' impact, which might result in affecting the expected learning outcomes in the FC, is still insufficient. Hence, the present study aimed to assess the effectiveness of advance organizers utilization in FC via L...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - November 26, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
