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Demetriou, Helen; Nicholl, Bill – Improving Schools, 2022
According to the age-old proverb from Plato's "Republic: necessity is the mother of invention," the main motivation for creating new discoveries is the need for them. However, as well as the necessity factor, we argue that a very important aspect that influences invention and creativity is the "empathy factor." This mixed…
Descriptors: Empathy, Foreign Countries, Creative Thinking, Creativity Tests
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Suacamram, Mayuree – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
Creativity is essential for everyone; it will be one of their valuable assets that will become beneficial their organization. This study aims to develop a series of workshop classes to promote learners' creativity based on the C-K theory. This research method uses pretest-posttest control group design. The research is divided into three stages:…
Descriptors: Creativity, Teaching Methods, Theories, Design
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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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Riga, Vassiliki; Chronopoulou, Elena – Education 3-13, 2014
The purpose of this study was to identify certain strategies and conditions that should be used by teachers in kindergarten so as to foster creative thinking and creative behaviours to children. We used a quasi-experimental research design for 6 months in a public kindergarten in a suburban area of Greece, and we developed a creative music and…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity, Student Behavior, Kindergarten
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Lamb, Richard; Annetta, Leonard; Vallett, David – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2015
Introduction: Creativity is the production of the new, original, unique, and divergent products and ideas mediated through lateral thinking. Evidence suggests that high levels of creativity and fluency are important in the continued development of student interest, efficacy and ultimately career impact in the sciences. Method: In this study, 559…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Instructional Design, Science Instruction, Creative Thinking
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Rabanos, Natalia Larraz; Torres, Pedro Allueva – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2012
Introduction: The aim of this study is to present an intervention program for creative skills development applied to a group of students of lower Secondary Education. Method: This program was applied in a school in Zaragoza (Spain) during the 2008-09 academic year. The study used a repeated-measures, quasi-experimental design with non-equivalent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creative Thinking, Thinking Skills, Skill Development
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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
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