Three-Generational Families: Are They Beneficial to Chinese Children’s Creativity?
Publication date: Available online 26 November 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Weiguo Pang, Ye Lu, Haiying Long, Qing Wang, Lijia LinAbstractIt is not uncommon in China that children are raised by both parents and grandparents in an extended family. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of three-generational families on Chinese children's creativity. A sample of 1,710 elementary school students aged 6 to 13 was drawn from two schools in urban districts of Shanghai. Participants’ creativity was measured by the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking-Figural (TTCT-Figural) and Alternate Us...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - November 26, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
CRITICAL THINKING PERSPECTIVES ACROSS CONTEXTS AND CURRICULA: Dominant, neglected, and complementing dimensions
Publication date: Available online 22 November 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Luis Fernando Santos MenesesAbstractConceptions of critical thinking (CT) are influenced by cultural and sociopolitical factors that give rise to a variety of views of CT across contexts. Rethinking conceptions of CT according to context is thus important in order to design teaching models that respond to sociocultural particularities and needs as well as to global demands. Existing conceptualizations of CT include cognitive, metacognitive, emotional, attitudinal, ethical, and sociopolitical dimensions that have shaped vario...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - November 23, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
The Factor Structure of the Verbal Torrance Test of Creative Thinking in an Arabic Context: Classical Test Theory and Multidimensional Item Response Theory Analyses
Publication date: Available online 19 November 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Sameh Said-Metwaly, Eva Kyndt, Wim Van den NoortgateAbstractThe Verbal Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (Verbal TTCT) is one of the most frequently used instruments in creativity research. However, its factor structure is still debated and mostly assessed in western contexts. The purpose of the current study was to provide new insights into the factor structure underlying this instrument, with a particular focus on an Arabic context. A sample of 621 undergraduate student from Egypt completed an Arabic version of the Verbal...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - November 20, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
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Publication date: December 2019Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity, Volume 34Author(s): (Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity)
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - November 20, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Artistic creativity beyond divergent thinking: Analysing sequences in creative subprocesses
Publication date: Available online 7 November 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Gregory BoldtAbstractWhile the creative process has been the subject of intensive research, the manner in which cognitive subprocesses interact during authentic creative production is not presently understood. The majority of existing creativity research has focused on divergent thinking, leaving many potentially impactful subprocesses and their interactions unexplored. In this pilot study, four graduate education students participated in a creative drawing task while modeling their thought processes via the think-aloud metho...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - November 9, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Executive functions mediate the association between bilingualism and creativity in preadolescents
Publication date: Available online 11 October 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Agurne Sampedro, Javier PeñaAbstractThe purpose of this study was to examine the role of several neurocognitive functions (executive functions, selective attention, and processing speed) as mediators in the relationship between bilingualism and creativity. The sample consisted of 224 preadolescent children, between 9 and 12 years old, residing in the Basque Country (Spain). Evaluation included neurocognitive and creativity tasks, and a linguistic proficiency questionnaire. The sample was divided into three groups depending o...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - October 12, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Above- and below-average students think differently: Their scientific argumentation patterns
This study developed a way to analyse argumentation skills with its Test of Scientific Argumentation (TSA), which is based on Toulmin’s argumentation model. After having students finish tasks under the TSA, the results obtained showed that above-average students performed better in manipulating claim, data, warrant, and backing than below-average students, but all groups had the same performance in rebuttal. Results also revealed that students’ learning characteristics could then be divided into four different clusters, from low to high levels of scientific argumentation—randomly intuitive, claim merely, rebuttal rea...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - October 11, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Exploring the Creative Process in Architecture Students and Professionals
Publication date: Available online 10 October 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Teresa Morlà Folch, Rosalía Cascón Pereira, Ignasi Brunet IcartAbstractAlthough the creative process has been the subject of many studies, there is no consensus on its stages or its facilitating and inhibiting factors because the research has been carried out in very different disciplinary fields. Therefore, the main purpose of this article is to research the creative process in architecture students and professionals. We used the Grounded Theory methodology and the study was carried out in Catalonia (Spain). We conducted ...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - October 11, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Essential, Unexceptional and Universal: Teacher Implicit Beliefs of Creativity
Publication date: Available online 12 September 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): David H. Cropley, Timothy Patston, Rebecca L. Marrone, James C. KaufmanAbstractGuided by four key elements of creativity theory (the 4 Ps), framed in an educational context (Results, Investigation, Students and Environment), this study examines implicit beliefs in a large sample of teachers across a range of discipline areas. The study finds that teacher implicit beliefs of creativity reflect a more differentiated and operationalized framework of five factors. Furthermore, these implicit beliefs are not indicative of a na...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - September 13, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Prioritizing Successful Entrepreneurial Skills: An Emphasis on the Perspectives of Entrepreneurs versus Aspiring Entrepreneurs
Publication date: Available online 9 September 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Panicha Hatthakijphong, Hsiu-I TingAbstractPurposeThis research aims to understand the relative importance of successful entrepreneurial skills based on the perception of entrepreneurs and others who intend to venture into entrepreneurship (aspiring entrepreneurs).Design/methodology/approachThis paper surveyed entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs and compared the relative importance of successful entrepreneurial skills in pairs. The study adapted Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to analyze priority skills and compare the...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - September 10, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
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Publication date: September 2019Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity, Volume 33Author(s): (Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity)
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - August 27, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
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Publication date: September 2019Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity, Volume 33Author(s): (Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity)
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - August 27, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Authentic leadership and creativity in China: The role of students’ regulatory-focused behaviors and supervisors’ power sources
Publication date: Available online 21 August 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Yu Fan Shang, Melody P.M. Chong, Jun Xu, Xiji ZhuAbstractThe topics of leadership and creativity have attracted considerable interest from both practitioners and academics in recent years. While this linkage has been examined, few studies have investigated how other contextual factors may affect this relationship. This paper tests a mediation model where authentic leadership influences student creativity through students’ regulatory-focused behaviors (promotion/ nourishment vs. prevention/protection). In addition, the study ...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - August 22, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Out-of-school assistance in the teaching of visual creative programming in the game-based environment – Case study: Poland
Publication date: Available online 21 August 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Taras Panskyi, Zdzislawa Rowinska, Sebastian BiedronAbstractThe paper presents effects of out-of-school teaching of computer science in a visual creative programming course (Scratch) for children aged 9-14, held at the Lodz University of Technology. The research was carrying out during 2016-2018 school years. The study sample consists of 265 primary and secondary students from Lodz Voivodeship (province) in central Poland. The results were obtained from anonymous questionnaires completed by 221 course participants and their pa...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - August 22, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
The development and evaluation of the effect of creative problem-solving program on young children’s creativity and character
This study was conducted to develop and evaluate a creative problem-solving program for enhancing creativity and character in young children. The program was drafted based on an extensive review of current literature and existing programs on young children’s creativity, creative character, and creative problem solving. After experts in creative education appraised the program’s content validity, the program was revised and delivered to 42 five-year-old children attending kindergarten and nursery schools in Korea for a total of 11 weeks. Children in experimental and control groups were compared to examine the program’...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - August 22, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
