Does the work environment affect designers’ creativity during the creative phase depending on their personality profile?
This study sets out from the hypothesis that the user's psychological profile influences the way in which the work environment affects the designer's creativity when addressing the conceptual design phase. Thus, the aim of this study will be to determine whether developing a conceptual design proposal in a "relaxing" or an "arousing" work environment will affect all designers equally or, conversely, it will have a greater effect on some of them depending on their psychological profile.Consequently, the first stage of the study consisted in characterising each member of the control group using the NEO-FFI test. The differen...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - June 21, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Mathematical Creativity: A Vehicle to Foster Equity
Publication date: Available online 20 June 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Joseph S. Kozlowski, Shouqing SiAbstractMathematical creativity can be viewed as a necessary vehicle to foster an equitable learning environment for all students (Luria et al., 2017). When students from diverse backgrounds or cultures enter the mathematics classroom, their perspective is often not valued (Taylor & Sobel, 2011). These students have experienced operational strategies, heuristic patterns, or problem-solving approaches that may be undermined or even prohibited due to traditional ideologies (Apple, 2009) around mathe...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - June 21, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Flipped classroom: Fostering creative skills in undergraduate students of health sciences
This study examines how the implementation of flipped classroom methodology fosters the development of creativity and critical thinking skills in undergraduate health science students, assesses the students’ opinions on this methodology, and measures its effects on their learning results. A descriptive-evaluative research based on the combination of quantitative statistical techniques and qualitative content analysis methods was carried out. Ninety-three students participated in this study during the academic year 2016–2017. The effect of flipped classroom activities was assessed using creativity, critical thinking ski...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - June 11, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Understanding creativity in an Asian school context: Korean teachers’ perspectives
In conclusion, the concept of creativity in education is constructed based on the sociocultural context in which creativity is actually practiced. (Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity)
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - June 8, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Latency as a Predictor of Originality in Divergent Thinking
Publication date: Available online 7 June 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Selcuk Acar, Ahmed M. Abdulla Alabbasi, Mark A. Runco, Kenes BeketayevAbstractPrevious research on divergent thinking (DT) indicates that fluency, originality, and flexibility change with time. Although there is a drop in the ideational productivity per minute, ideas tend to get more original and flexible as time passes, a phenomenon known as the order effect. The present research extends previous findings of longer latencies during flexible ideation and examined the relationship between latency and originality. 1,325 verbal and ...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - June 7, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
The underlying cognitive mechanisms of the rater effect in creativity assessment: The mediating role of perceived semantic distance
Publication date: Available online 27 May 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Jiajun Guo, Ying Ge, Weiguo PangAbstractIt is accepted fact that people often disagree with each other when they evaluate the creativity or originality of a product. At least three types of factors have been found to influence judgements of creativity, including people’s own originality, product characteristics, and evaluation criteria. However, little research has systematically investigated those influences, especially their interactions. In addition, the underlying cognitive mechanisms of the influences are still unknown. Th...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - May 28, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Is Creativity Domain Specific or Domain General? Evidence from Multilevel Explanatory Item Response Theory Models
Publication date: Available online 27 May 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Meihua Qian, Jonathan A. Plucker, Xiangdong YangAbstractCreativity, as one of the key 21st century skills, has become increasingly important. Yet despite the huge volume of research on creativity in the past 60 years, a fundamental debate about the nature of creativity still remains unsolved: Is creativity domain specific or domain general? In the present study, multilevel explanatory item response theory models were used to analyze 359 undergraduate and graduate students’ participation and achievements in a wide range of creat...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - May 28, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
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Publication date: June 2019Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity, Volume 32Author(s): (Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity)
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - May 25, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
What Predicts Adolescents’ Critical Thinking about Real-life News? The Roles of Social Media News Consumption and News Media Literacy
Publication date: Available online 13 May 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Kelly Yee Lai Ku, Shirley Qiuyi Kong, Yunya Song, Li Ping Deng, Yi Kang, Aihua HuAbstractCritical thinking in the post-truth era demands that news users develop and maintain a skeptical way of knowing, and cultivate the ability to discern evidence-based and unbiased information to make sound judgments. While adolescents are becoming the most dedicated social media news consumers, the literature is yet to catch up with empirical research on whether adolescents are able to apply critical thinking to make sense of real-life news. We...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - May 14, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Experiential Learning with Building Craft in the Architectural Design Studio: A Pilot Study Exploring its Implications for Built Heritage in the UK
Publication date: Available online 14 May 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Johnathan Djabarouti, Christopher O’FlahertyAbstractThere is evidence of architectural learning being a product of both theoretical and practical knowledge, with traditional building craft being part of the original route to becoming an architect, or ‘master builder’. With formalised schools of architecture emerging within the Beaux-Arts period, the educational pathway for architects distanced itself from practical ‘on-site’ experience, ultimately removing building craft from architectural pedagogy. This lack of experie...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - May 14, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Developing Individual Creativity for Environmental Sustainability: Using an Everyday Theme in Higher Education
Publication date: Available online 9 May 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Vivian M.Y. Cheng (Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity)
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - May 10, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Fostering Children’s Creative Thinking Skills with the 5-I Training Program
The objective of the current study was to develop and examine the effectiveness of a brief, domain-unspecific creativity training program: the 5-I training program. Children (N = 172) aged 7 to 12 years participated in the training, which consisted of eight creativity exercises performed in a training session of two hours. The effectiveness of the training on stimulating children’s creative thinking skills was assessed by means of a pretest and posttest comparison using three creativity tasks (Alternative Uses Task, drawing task and guessing task). For each task several measures of creative performance were examined ...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - May 8, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Evaluating The Imagineerium: The Trowsdale Indices of Confidence in Competence, Creativity and Learning (TICCCL)
Publication date: June 2019Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity, Volume 32Author(s): Jo Trowsdale, Ursula McKenna, Leslie J. FrancisAbstractIn order to evaluate the impact of The Imagineerium, an arts and engineering based curriculum project, a pilot sample of 135 year 5 (9-10 year-olds) students completed a battery of tests both before and after participating in the 10-week programme. The battery of tests included three measures proposed by the Trowsdale Indices of Confidence in Competence, Creativity and Learning (TICCCL), together with the three indices proposed by the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revise...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - May 1, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Cross-Cultural Differences in Creativity: a Process-Based View through a Prism of Cognition, Motivation and Attribution
Publication date: Available online 25 April 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Marina McCarthyAbstractGlobal innovation capabilities including effective leverage of employee’s creative potential across various cultural contexts have become increasingly important. Although widely recognized among researchers and practitioners, cross-cultural differences in creativity are yet to be comprehensively explored. The paper examines differences in creativity from a process perspective and identifies distinct mechanisms that underlie differences in creativity across cultures. Specifically, the theoretical framewo...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - April 26, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Evaluating ‘Project Title’: The A1 Indices of Confidence in Competence, Creativity and Learning (TICCCL)
Publication date: Available online 9 April 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Jo Trowsdale, Ursula McKenna, Leslie J. FrancisAbstractIn order to evaluate the impact of Project Title, an arts and engineering based curriculum project, a pilot sample of 135 year 5 (9- to 10-year-old) students completed a battery of tests both before and after participating in the 10-week programme. The battery of tests included three measures proposed by the A1 Indices of Confidence in Competence, Creativity and Learning (TICCCL), together with the three indices proposed by the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revi...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - April 10, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
