Model of 21st Century Physical Learning Environment (MoPLE21)
Publication date: Available online 14 August 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Cezary Szpytma, Magdalena SzpytmaAbstractThe physical learning environment is often considered to be a secondary element of education. Therefore, this study examined the following research questions: What role does the physical learning environment play in the educational process? How can we adapt the physical learning environment to 21 st century education? The present study analyzed behavioral models and reviewed 21 st century educational frameworks. Based on the findings, an ideal school environment model, called the Mo...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - August 15, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
The effect of manipulating group task orientation and support for innovation on collaborative creativity in an educational setting
Publication date: Available online 13 August 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Yue Ma, James E. Corter (Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity)
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - August 14, 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 13, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Concept Generation in the Architectural Design Process: A Suggested Hybrid Model of Vertical and Lateral Thinking Approaches
In this study the author compares between vertical and lateral modes of thinking as two approaches for generating concepts in architecture design. The study first introduces different maps of the design process representing each of the two thinking modes. Empirical data is then acquired on the concepts generated by students using each thinking mode by applying congruent design maps on a simple design project. Guilford's criteria of creative thinking are used to evaluate students' proposals based upon their fluency, originality, flexibility and level of elaboration. The study highlights the importance of teaching concept ge...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - August 3, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
The Effect of Cultivating Diagram Use on the Quality of EFL Students’ Written Explanations
This study investigated how an intervention that promoted the use of diagrams might affect quality features of written explanations produced by EFL (English as a foreign language) students in an undergraduate education studies course taught entirely in English. At the beginning (Pre-instruction) and end (Post-instruction) of the semester, the 19 student participants were administered a task that required reading a passage and writing an explanation of it. During the semester they had a weekly homework task of writing an explanation of what they had learned in the course. They were additionally provided workshop instruction...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - July 26, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Discriminating the Measurement Attributes of the Three Versions of Chinese Remote Associates Test
Publication date: Available online 22 July 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Ching-Lin WuAbstractThe Remote Associates Test (RAT), a well-known creativity assessment tool, has been widely used because of its ease of implementation and objective scoring. The first Chinese version of the RAT (i.e., Chinese Remote Associates Test, CRAT), was developed in 2004 to assess the creativity of native Mandarin speakers. In addition, three versions of the CRAT have been developed: the Chinese Radical Remote Associates Test (CRRAT), the Chinese Word Remote Associates Test (CWRAT) and the Chinese Compound Remote Assoc...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - July 22, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Are Teachers’ Ratings of Students’ Creativity Related to Students’ Divergent Thinking? A Meta-Analysis
This article meta-analytically examines the relationship between teachers’ ratings of students’ creativity and students’ creative abilities as measured with divergent thinking tests. Based on 135 correlation coefficients derived from 27 studies, we found a statistically significant, yet weak-to-moderate (r = .23) relationship between students’ divergent thinking and teachers’ ratings of students’ creativity. This correlation was stronger when teachers used more elaborate and reliable scales to rate students’ creativity than when their ratings were based on single indications of whether a student was more ...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - July 19, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Transforming volcanos to buncanos in eventful dialogues: Children’s remembering-in-interaction
Publication date: Available online 16 July 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Tina KullenbergAbstractMemory research has traditionally conceived of memory as an individual skill. Its inherent dialogicality has consequently been neglected and, moreover, little attention has been paid to its communicative functions in the educational practice. The aim of this case study is to explore the role of conversational remembering in preschool education. Using a dialogic lens in the spirit of Bakhtin, the research questions concern pedagogical premises for conversational remembering: how preschool children make sens...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - July 17, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Methodologies for teaching-learning critical thinking in higher education: The teacher’s view
This article starts with a literature review of the main methodologies to teach this competency, and moreover, analyzes the main methodologies that 230 university teachers from Spain and Latin America use in the classroom as well as the ones they consider as more effective for the development of critical thinking. This information is contrasted with the concept these teachers have of critical thinking, based on previous research in which six different categories of concept were found. The data is analyzed using the test of Chi-square and Cohen’s Kappa. The results seem to indicate that teachers use and consider as most e...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - July 17, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Creative Thinking in Mathematics Curriculum: An Analytic Framework
Publication date: Available online 16 July 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Linor L. Hadar, Mor Tirosh (Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity)
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - July 17, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
How a dialogic space can impact children’s creativity and mood valence in Drama Pedagogy Training: Study with a French 4th grade sample
Publication date: September 2019Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity, Volume 33Author(s): Macarena-Paz Celume, Maud Besançon, Franck ZenasniAbstractDrama Pedagogy Training (DPT) is a kind of training based on an active educational methodology called Drama Pedagogy. It is mostly based on collaborative drama games and techniques, similar to what is commonly found in literature as creative drama as the objective is neither artistic nor academic. As an active pedagogy, participants co-construct their learning through participative dialogue, reasoning together about the learning experiences that are presented as collaborativ...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - July 12, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
How a Dialogic Space can impact children's creativity and mood valence in Drama Pedagogy Training: Study with a French 4th grade sample
Publication date: Available online 5 July 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Macarena-Paz Celume, Maud Besançon, Franck ZenasniAbstractDrama Pedagogy Training (DPT) is a kind of training based on an active educational methodology called Drama Pedagogy. It is mostly based on collaborative drama games and techniques, similar to what is commonly found in literature as creative drama as the objective is neither artistic nor academic. As an active pedagogy, participants co-construct their learning through participative dialogue, reasoning together about the learning experiences that are presented as collabora...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - July 7, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Creative Self-Efficacy of Children Aged 9-14 in a Science Center Using a Situated Mobile Game
In this study, a situated mobile game provides creative interactive challenges to engage participants with hands-on exhibits at a science center. From the player’s perspective, the objective of the game was to exercise creativity skills in order to complete the challenges. During gameplay, players were asked to record their solutions to the challenges via photographs, audio, and video. Afterward, they reflected on the creativity they employed during the game as they made an electronic multi-media poster using the digital artifacts they created during gameplay. In addition to facilitating meaningful exhibit interaction, t...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - June 29, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
The Impact of Originality Instructions on Cognitive Strategy Use in Divergent Thinking
This article explores this order effect in relation to the strategy use in DT and examines if it may be altered by originality instructions. One possible way to explain the order effect is to understand the source of the responses. It is likely that early ideas tend to come from memory and experiences while late ideas come from more complex thought processes such as imagination, which leads late ideas to be more creative. However, this sequentiality could change with an explicit instruction to “be original”. We conducted two separate studies to test these hypotheses. In Study 1, eighty-nine high school students complet...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - June 28, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Contemporary art in higher education: creative pedagogies in political economy
Publication date: Available online 20 June 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Raúl de Arriba, Gherardo Girardi, María VidagañAbstractWe propose that contemporary art, which reflects the problems and attitudes of our times, can be used as a way of promoting creativity in disciplines that are not traditionally associated with the arts. Whilst contemporary art is being used as a learning and teaching aid in higher education in a small number of disciplines, it is not normally used in disciplines dominated by rational discourse; an example is economics, on which we focus. We begin by reviewing the literatu...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - June 21, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
