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Jirout, Jamie; Klahr, David – Developmental Review, 2012
Although curiosity is an undeniably important aspect of children's cognitive development, a universally accepted operational definition of children's curiosity does not exist. Almost all of the research on measuring curiosity has focused on adults, and has used predominately questionnaire-type measures that are not appropriate for young children.…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Preschool Children, Cognitive Development, Scientific Attitudes
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Shi, Fuqian; Wei, Jincai – International Education Studies, 2008
In the current teaching activities on curriculum, teachers taught all kinds of computer language at the most of the time. Students also focus on a variety of examinations, but the real time to train students' independent software developing skill is very limited. This has resulted in the students only to copy other people's systems design ideas,…
Descriptors: Programming, Creative Thinking, Creative Development, Science Activities
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Dietrich, Arne; Srinivasan, Narayanan – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2007
Previous research on the relationship between age and creativity has shown that career age, rather than chronological age, correlates best with longitudinal changes in creative productivity. Recently, Dietrich (2004) proposed a new theoretical framework that integrates cognitive neuroscience with the findings of creativity research. By identifying…
Descriptors: Scientists, Creativity, Age, Career Development