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Peer reviewedHadsel, Martha; And Others – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1986
The study examined the paragraph writing performance of 89 undergraduate students with low or high convergent or divergent aptitude in response to three methods of instruction: deduction (topic sentence to details), inductive (details to topic sentence), or a combination. A balanced presentation of both methods produced greater overall…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Convergent Thinking, Deduction, Divergent Thinking
