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Ting Yao; Zhongya Qin – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2024
This study aims to assess personal creativity and the development of higher-order thinking skills in improvisation. The authors evaluated higher-order thinking skills in music improvisation and creativity of improvised musical compositions. The results of the t-test showed significant progress in both creativity and thinking skills among students…
Descriptors: Music, Creative Activities, Music Education, Thinking Skills
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Chick, Christina F.; Reyna, Valerie F.; Corbin, Jonathan C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Theoretical accounts of risky choice framing effects assume that decision makers interpret framing options as extensionally equivalent, such that if 600 lives are at stake, saving 200 implies that 400 die. However, many scholars have argued that framing effects are caused, instead, by filling in pragmatically implied information. This linguistic…
Descriptors: Risk, Decision Making, Pragmatics, Ambiguity (Semantics)
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Mattar, Dorine Maurice – International Journal of Educational Management, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to find out if the characteristics, traits and leadership style of an effective university leader in Lebanon match those of a transformational one. Moreover, it is intended to shed light on the possible transferability of the transformational leadership's success to the Middle-Eastern society where norms and…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Transformational Leadership, Administrator Characteristics, Cultural Differences