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Bartolucci, Marco; Mattioli, Francesco; Batini, Federico – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2019
In recent years, the authors have witnessed the rebirth of board games. This contribution aims to investigate the educational potential of non-random board games in two ways: the comparison of performances of "expert adult players" and "adult non-players" through a correlation study (n=45) and the comparison between the results…
Descriptors: Games, Expertise, Adults, Children
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Jaarsveld, Saskia; Lachmann, Thomas; van Leeuwen, Cees – Intelligence, 2012
We recently proposed the Creative Reasoning Test (CRT), a test for reasoning in ill-defined problem spaces. The test asks children who first performed the Standard Progressive Matrices test (SPM) to next generate an SPM-style test item themselves. The item is scored based on different aspects of its complexity. Here we introduce a method to…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity Tests, Problem Solving, Children
Cukierkorn, Jesse Rachel – Gifted Child Today, 2008
Rare gifts and talents often are untapped and untaught, with just a portion of the population who have artistic talent being served. Furthermore, there is still much to be learned in terms of understanding these students' abilities and needs. This article shares current research regarding characteristics of artistically talented students. Usually…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Talent, Art Education, Artists
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Karwowski, Maciej – Gifted and Talented International, 2008
Two studies were conducted to show connections between giftedness and intuition. The first study was exploratory. A sample of 194 gifted adolescent students (N=194) included fifty-five students identified as gifted by their teachers and fifty-six percent who were female. Using the Polish version of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, the students…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Creativity, Cognitive Style, Gifted
Lance W. Gibbon – ProQuest LLC, 2007
In this quasi-experimental study, 142 fifth and sixth grade students at a suburban elementary school in Northwest Washington State participated in a week-long, 10-hour project using the "LEGO Mindstorms Robotics Invention System" (RIS). Partners constructed and programmed one robot from visually-based LEGO instructions and a second of…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Toys, Convergent Thinking
Dufner, Hillrey A.; Alexander, Patricia A. – 1987
The differential effects of two different types of problem-solving training on the problem-solving abilities of gifted fourth graders were studied. Two successive classes of gifted fourth graders from Weslaco Independent School District (Texas) were pretested with the Coloured Progressive Matrices (CPM) and Thinking Creatively With Pictures…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Comparative Analysis, Creative Thinking, Gifted