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Direct linkCarmen Saunders-Russell – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2023
The author explains how using creative assignments reinforces invention, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills in undergraduate health administration students. While several studies look at the use of creative assignments to help students develop these skills, few studies exist on their use in health administration. In addition, the use of…
Descriptors: Creativity, Assignments, Innovation, Problem Solving
Rafner, Janet; Wang, Qian Janice; Gadjacz, Miroslav; Badts, Thomas; Baker, Brendan; Bergenholtz, Carsten; Biskjaer, Michael Mose; Bui, Thomas; Carugati, Andrea; De Cibeins, Matthieu; Noy, Lior; Rahimi, Seyedahmad; Tylén, Kristian; Zana, Blanka; Beaty, Roger E.; Sherson, Jacob – Creativity Research Journal, 2023
For decades, researchers have struggled with measurement problems related to the "construct validity" of divergent and convergent thinking in creativity assessments. In response, some have called for battery-based approaches. Recently, digital games have emerged as a potential alternative, offering increased "scalability" and…
Descriptors: College Students, Creativity Tests, Nonverbal Tests, Abstract Reasoning
Alexandra M. Ochs; Julianne M. Dee; Anne M. Arnold; Katelyn A. Barber; Edward P. Zovinka – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
At its simplest, paint pouring is the mixing of paints with lower density and viscosity liquids and then pouring them onto a surface for an aesthetic artifact. Using active art as a teaching tool, middle school students were engaged in a paint pouring activity to study the influence of the interdisciplinary combination of chemistry and art topics…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Science Education, Chemistry, Painting (Visual Arts)
de Vries, E. W.; Delnooz, P.; Velthuijsen, H.; Pinxten, R. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2023
Global developments ask for 21st-century skills. Creativity is one of those and can be defined as the production of novel ideas by connecting entities that have not been connected before and whose connection is useful in a certain domain. The growth of rhizomes is an example where unconnected entities become connected in an unpredictable way, and…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, College Students, Student Attitudes, Creativity
Mark A. Runco; Ahmed M. Abdulla Alabbasi; Selcuk Acar; Alaa Eldin A. Ayoub – Creativity Research Journal, 2023
Creative potential is one of the most important topics for research. It is difficult to study because, unlike creative products, potential is by definition latent. There are several useful methods. One involves comparing creative activity expressed in various settings. Previous research has, for example, compared creativity expressed in school…
Descriptors: Creativity, Aptitude, Environmental Influences, Educational Environment
Download full textBlankenship, Bethany – Student Success, 2020
This practice report discusses the term "bricolage" and its relationship to student learning. The positive and negative perceptions of teachers and students as "bricoleurs" (those who practice bricolage) are discussed. An exploratory study that examines the application of bricolage in the classroom is discussed. In two…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Knowledge Level, Creativity
Glaveanu, Vlad Petre; Hanchett Hanson, Michael; Baer, John; Barbot, Baptiste; Clapp, Edward P.; Corazza, Giovanni Emanuele; Hennessey, Beth; Kaufman, James C.; Lebuda, Izabela; Lubart, Todd; Montuori, Alfonso; Ness, Ingunn J.; Plucker, Jonathan; Reiter-Palmon, Roni; Sierra, Zayda; Simonton, Dean Keith; Neves-Pereira, Monica Souza; Sternberg, Robert J. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2020
This manifesto, discussed by 20 scholars, representing diverse lines of creativity research, marks a conceptual shift within the field. Socio-cultural approaches have made substantial contributions to the concept of creativity over recent decades and today can provide a set of propositions to guide our understanding of past research and to…
Descriptors: Creativity, Sociocultural Patterns, Scholarship, Futures (of Society)
Turner, John R.; Baker, Rose – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2020
The current research study utilized a case study research method to test the theory that the creativity and innovative processes are a complex adaptive system. Through qualitative interviews with renowned creators, the current study categorized the data into eight characteristics of complex adaptive systems: path dependent, systems have a history,…
Descriptors: Creativity, Innovation, Systems Approach, Evaluation Methods
Sternberg, Robert J. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2020
This article describes a "straight-A" model of the creative process. It characterizes the creative process in five overlapping phases, with the variables most affecting those phases characterized as: (1) activators, (2) abilities, (3) amplifiers, (4) appeal to audience, and (5) assessment by audience. The creative process does not…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Creativity, Audiences, Correlation
Mi, Shuaishuai; Bi, Hualin; Lu, Shanshan – Creativity Research Journal, 2020
This study aimed to identify trends and foundations of creativity research in education using the Structural Topic Model (STM). First, English-language journal articles about creativity research in education included in the Social Science Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded databases were selected. Then, considering semantic…
Descriptors: Creativity, Educational Research, Correlation, Incidence
Barnett, Ronald – Higher Education Quarterly, 2020
The Creative University is susceptible to multiple interpretations which are moving in a fluid conceptual space. This conceptual openness can be adequately understood only as a set of discursive formations that reflect underlying societal changes. It is becoming a commonplace to suggest that creativity should no longer be seen as a matter of…
Descriptors: Creativity, Universities, Social Change, Economics
Sternberg, Robert J. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2020
Creativity testing as it is now done is often based on a defective assumption that different kinds of creativity can be compressed into a single unidimensional scale. There is no reason to believe that the different kinds of creativity represent, simply, different amounts of a single unidimensional construct. The article shows how three different…
Descriptors: Creativity Tests, Test Validity, Misconceptions, Models
Davis, Thomas J.; Fichtenholtz, Harlan M. – Creativity Research Journal, 2019
This research explored the relationship between mental fatigue and creativity by testing the creative potential of 25 Keene State College students, half of which were subjected to mental fatigue. Little research has been done to look at these 2 variables together, but considerable research has been done on them individually. Using an…
Descriptors: Creativity, Stress Variables, Creative Thinking, Creativity Tests
Carlsson, Ingegerd; Davidson, Per; Ors, Marianne – Creativity Research Journal, 2019
The effect of napping versus wakefulness was studied on primed and repeated Remote Associate Tests (RATs) and on divergent creativity tests. The participants were 42 students from the USA, studying international courses at a Swedish university. The hypotheses for the RATs were (1), when the correct answers were primed before the nap, the RAT…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Sleep, Creativity Tests
Maria Jesus Avitia – ProQuest LLC, 2019
When a student has a learning disability in reading and or dyslexia, interventions focus on remediating the weakness. Positive psychology is a field of psychology that looks to help people, based on harnessing a person's strengths, to create better outcomes. Strengths-based or asset-based interventions have been used with people with developmental…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Dyslexia, Spatial Ability, Creativity
