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Implicit Theories of Creativity in Computer Science in the United States and China
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Tang, Chaoying; Baer, John; Kaufman, James C. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2015
To study implicit concepts of creativity in computer science in the United States and mainland China, we first asked 308 Chinese computer scientists for adjectives that would describe a creative computer scientist. Computer scientists and non-computer scientists from China (N = 1069) and the United States (N = 971) then rated how well those…
Descriptors: Creativity, Computer Science Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Theories
A Comparative Study of Creative Thinking of American and Japanese College Students.
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Saeki, Noriko; Fan, Xitao; Van Dusen, Lani – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2001
Cross-cultural differences in creative thinking were assessed for 51 American and 54 Japanese college students. The American students showed significantly higher scores on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) figural test than the Japanese students. No gender differences were found in either culture. TTCT performance did not correlate…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, College Students, Creative Thinking
Developing and Testing a Turkish Version of Torrance's Tests of Creative Thinking: A Study of Adults
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Aslan, A. Esra; Puccio, Gerard J. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2006
The present study had two purposes. The first was to translate one of the most popular creativity measures in the West, the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, into Turkish and to check the equivalency of the Turkish version against the original English measure. The second, after developing an equivalent form of the TTCT in Turkish, was to…
Descriptors: Creativity, Cross Cultural Studies, Creative Thinking, Comparative Analysis