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Oncu, Elif Celebi – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
The main objective of this study was improving university students' from different faculties creativity thinking through a creativity education process. The education process took twelve weeks' time. As pretest, Torrance test of creative thinking (TTCT) figural form was used. Participants were 24 university students from different faculties who…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity, College Students, Creativity Tests
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Cheng, Ya-Yun; Chien, Chin-Chen; Wang, Shiow-Jen – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2016
This study employs the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking to investigate the effects of accounting and business curriculums on students' verbal and figurative creativity via the Solomon four-group design. The subjects are accounting and business administration students in Taiwan, where these two curriculums are similar to their counterparts in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Accounting, Business Administration Education
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Calkin, Joshua; Karlsen, Megan – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2014
Destination Imagination is a creative problem solving competition for school-aged children that encourages creative growth and long-term problem solving skills. These skills are important for young children as they can be directly related to future success in school, home, and the workplace. This extracurricular activity has impacted 1.5 million…
Descriptors: Imagination, Creativity, Skill Development, Problem Solving
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Hokanson, Brad – Industry and Higher Education, 2007
Specific training may be required to develop creativity in design students. At the very least, training is valuable in developing creativity in first-year students. Creativity is a skill that can be examined, used and taught--and it is one that is central to designing. This paper presents the results of empirical research from a class in creative…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Thinking, Design, Innovation
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Treffinger, Donald J.; And Others – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1974
Article considered whether pupils' creative thinking and problem solving abilities can be improved through direct educational efforts. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Creativity, Educational Objectives, Educational Research, Elementary School Students
Joyner, Jerry E. – 1973
To ascertain the effects of an instructional strategy utilizing structural design problems and an instructional strategy utilizing unstructured design problems, 86 eleventh and twelfth grade students with IQ scores in the upper and lower 40 percent of the school population were randomly assigned to two treatment groups. The treatments consisted of…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Creativity, Design, Doctoral Dissertations