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Direct linkLei, Weina; Deng, Wenbo; Zhu, Rongjuan; Runco, Mark A.; Dai, David Yun; Hu, Weiping – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2021
Two studies investigated the effects of cognitive and school environmental factors on adolescents' creative performance. The first study tested the effects of expected evaluation and cognitive style on creativity among 89 high school students. The second study tested the effects of evaluation type and cognitive style on creativity among 92 high…
Descriptors: Creativity, Cognitive Style, Environmental Influences, High School Students
Runco, Mark A. – Creativity Theory and Action in Education, 2017
This chapter explores the various relationships that exist between contradictions and creativity. The focus is education, with implications for both teachers and students. Contradictions are defined and contrasted with problems, disequilibria, and dilemmae. Product, place, personality, and process perspectives on creativity as also compared. The…
Descriptors: Creativity, Correlation, Comparative Analysis, Personality Traits
Acar, Selcuk; Runco, Mark A. – Creativity Research Journal, 2014
Tests of divergent thinking represent the most commonly used assessment of creative potential. Typically they are scored for total ideational output (fluency), ideational originality, and, sometimes, ideational flexibility. That scoring system provides little information about the underlying process and about the associations among ideas. It also…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity, Creativity Tests, Correlation
Runco, Mark A.; Albert, Robert S. – Creative Child and Adult Quarterly, 1986
Results of divergent thinking tests (administered to 228 intermediate school students, of whom about 43 percent were gifted) and calculated correlations between creativity and intelligence measures did not support the threshold theory which posits that creativity and intelligence are related only up to an intelligence quotient of about 120.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Creativity, Creativity Tests
Peer reviewedRunco, Mark A. – Psychology in the Schools, 1986
Compared gifted (n=97), talented (n=53), and nongifted (n=90) intermediate school children in terms of divergent thinking fluency, flexibility, and originality scores elicited by standard and explicit instructions. Results indicated that the scores of all groups were significantly different in the two instructional conditions. (Author/ABB)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Creativity, Creativity Tests, Elementary School Students
Runco, Mark A.; Illies, Jody J.; Eisenman, Russell – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2005
Originality is a necessary part of creativity, but creative things are more than just original. They also solve a problem, or more generally are somehow fitting or appropriate. Yet previous research found an inverse relationship between ratings of originality and ratings of appropriateness. The present investigation employed a different…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Creativity, Creative Thinking, Teaching Methods
