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Plucker, Jonathan A. – Creativity Research Journal, 2023
In 1998, Plucker and Runco provided an overview of creativity assessment, noting current issues (fluency confounds, generality vs. specificity), recent advances (predictive validity, implicit theories), and promising future directions (moving beyond divergent thinking measures, reliance on batteries of assessments, translation into practice). In…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creativity Tests, Creative Thinking, Semantics
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Guthrie, Gerard – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017
The student-centred, progressive paradigm has not had sustained success in changing teacher-centred, formalistic practices in "developing" country classrooms. Does "Gestalt-switch" and paradigm reversal demonstrate that progressive theory has realigned with formalistic reality, or has it remained axiomatic in the research and…
Descriptors: Progressive Education, Developing Nations, Educational Practices, Validity
McAlpine, Lynn; Weston, Cynthia – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 1994
Describes a list of attributes of instructional materials based on a review of instructional design literature that was validated and found reliable through a series of studies. Four categories of attributes are presented: (1) instructional design; (2) language, including semantic and syntactic structures; (3) presentation, including layout; and…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Instructional Design, Instructional Material Evaluation, Instructional Materials