NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing all 8 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Fung, Wing Kai; Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa; He, Mavis Wu-jing – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2021
This study examined the direct and indirect associations among imaginational over-excitability, cognitive play processes, affective play processes, and parent-reported creative potential of Hong Kong Chinese kindergarten children. Participants were 106 parents of local kindergarten children (43.4% girls, mean age = 60.1 months). Parents reported…
Descriptors: Correlation, Young Children, Kindergarten, Parent Attitudes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Malycha, Charlotte P.; Maier, Günter W. – Creativity Research Journal, 2017
Although creativity techniques are highly recommended in working environments, their effects have been scarcely investigated. Two cognitive processes are often considered to foster creative potential and are, therefore, taken as a basis for creativity techniques: knowledge activation and conceptual combination. In this study, both processes were…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Creativity, Creative Thinking, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Servant, Virginie F. C.; Noordzij, Gera; Spierenburg, Emely J.; Frens, Maarten A. – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2015
This paper addresses the way in which students' cognitive creativity and the construction of meaning could be fostered by means of assessment in a Problem-based learning programme. We propose that a dual assessment structure within such a programme through examinations and coursework assignments could ensure the acquisition of a foundational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Based Learning, Cognitive Processes, Creativity
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Shin, Namin; Jang, Yeon-Ju – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2017
The development of group creativity can be challenging for both young students and their teachers. This study examined the processes and learning outcomes of group creativity training from the perspectives of elementary school students and teachers while identifying critical factors that contributed to the success of the training. Data were…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creativity, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Clark, Andre – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2013
Students on an enterprise course running in a number of colleges in the UK in which invention and innovation formed part of the curriculum were asked to complete a questionnaire immediately upon having an inventive thought in an attempt to establish the thinking processes involved. Results from those who had ideas that subsequently proved to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Questionnaires
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Norlander, Torsten; Gustafson, Roland – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1996
This study of 60 Swedish university students examined whether or not acute alcohol intoxication inhibits or facilitates the incubation phase of the creative process. Results found that the participants in the alcohol group produced significantly more incubations in their diaries and significantly higher levels of originality. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Creative Development
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Suddendorf, Thomas; Fletcher-Flinn, Claire M. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1997
Forty New Zealand children (ages 3-4) were given false-belief and creativity tasks to investigate whether those with a Theory of Mind outlook are better at searching their own minds for creative answers. The numbers of appropriate and original responses in the creativity test correlated positively with performance on false-belief tasks. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Creative Development, Creativity
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Burnard, Pamela; Craft, Anna; Cremin, Teresa; Duffy, Bernadette; Hanson, Ruth; Keene, Jean; Haynes, Lindsay; Burns, Dawn – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2006
Drawing on existing work in the area of creativity and early years education, this paper maps the process of an exploratory study which sought to identify what characterizes "possibility thinking" as an aspect of creativity in young children's learning. With the aim of developing a framework for identifying "possibility…
Descriptors: Creativity, Young Children, Learning, Teacher Researchers