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Ovington, Linda A.; Saliba, Anthony J.; Goldring, Jeremy – Creativity Research Journal, 2016
This article reports the development of a brief self-report measure of dispositional insight problem solving, the Dispositional Insight Scale (DIS). From a representative Australian database, 1,069 adults (536 women and 533 men) completed an online questionnaire. An exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis revealed a 5-item scale, with all…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Measurement Techniques, Factor Analysis, Construct Validity
Stavy, Ruth; Tsamir, Pessia; Tirosh, Dina; Lin, Fou lai; McRobbie, Campbell – 2002
In their work in science and mathematics education, the authors have observed that students intuitively react in similar ways to a wide variety of scientific tasks. These tasks differ with regard to their content area and/or to the reasoning required for their solution, but share some common, external features. We have identified three types of…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Foreign Countries, High Schools, Indigenous Populations