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Fatini Jisma Fakaruddin; Edy Hafizan Mohd Shahali; Rohaida Mohd Saat – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
Hands-on activities in science learning are beneficial in enhancing creative thinking in students. However, scant studies have probed the nature of creative thinking developed by hands-on activities, particularly among primary school students and further investigation is thus mandated. Therefore, this study aims to explore the creative thinking…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Hands on Science, Creative Thinking
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Calkins, Roderick P.; Welkowitz, Lawrence – Educational Perspectives, 1984
Two studies related to creativity are reported and discussed. The first examined possible relationships between problem solving, divergent thinking, and field dependence-independence in second-grade students (N=83). The second study determined that the analytical skills of 71 undergraduate students (measured by the Hidden Figures Test) may be…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Creativity Research, Field Dependence Independence
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Vass, Eva – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2007
This paper reports a study on children's classroom-based collaborative creative writing. Based on socio-cultural theory, the central aim of the research was to contribute to current understanding of young children's creativity, and describe ways in which peer collaboration can resource, stimulate and enhance classroom-based creative writing. The…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Creativity, Cooperation, Group Activities
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Roodin, Paul – Roeper Review, 1983
Although frequently discounted, imagery plays an important role in the intellectual development of gifted students. It can be useful in helping students remember, create (in the arts and in sports), and develop flexibility in thinking. Imagery may also be involved in gifted adolescents' career and life decisions. (CL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Gifted, Imagery
Wakefield, John F. – 1987
The history of divergent-thinking tests suggests that new approaches to creativity testing are needed. Research has focused on the relation of creativity to insight, divergent problem solving, problem finding, and intelligence. A proposed situational model of creativity defines creativity as a meaningful response to open-problem, open-solution…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Creativity Tests
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Torrance, E. Paul – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1979
The author offers an instructional model to enhance the chances that incubation will occur in creative problem solving. Note: For related information, see EC 120 232-238. (CL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Schemes, Creativity, Models
Cohen, Barbara L. – Academic Therapy, 1988
Synectics, the making of analogies, was used with learning disabled high school seniors to provide them with a creative process that aids in developing a deeper understanding of literature. After studying Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," the students completed a six-step process and produced a short writing assignment. (VW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creativity, High Schools, Learning Disabilities
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Brandt, Ronald S. – Educational Leadership, 1986
This interview with David Perkins, codirector of Harvard's Project Zero and author of "The Mind's Best Work," focuses on the links between creative and critical thinking styles. Exercises in Venezuela's Project Intelligence are also discussed, along with possible curricular approaches to teaching skills. (11 references) (MLH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Creativity Tests, Critical Thinking
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Palmer, Barbara C.; And Others – Reading Horizons, 1981
Discusses the principles of art and provides activities that correlate art and reading and promote cognitive and affective development. (HTH)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Mohammadi, Mohammad-Reza, Ed. – InTech, 2011
The aim of the book is to serve for clinical, practical, basic and scholarly practices. In twentyfive chapters it covers the most important topics related to Autism Spectrum Disorders in the efficient way and aims to be useful for health professionals in training or clinicians seeking an update. Different people with autism can have very different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Risk, Cultural Differences, Quality of Life
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Hines, Terence – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1991
This article reviews the evidence on the relationship between the two brain hemispheres and creative cognitive processes. It concludes that claims about creativity being "in" one or the other hemispheres represent an uncritical acceptance of naive pseudoscientific beliefs about the brain and brain function. (DB)
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Creativity
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Gordon, W. J. J. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1974
Author presented a selection of examples of the role of connective analogies in invention/discovery. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Creative Activities
Willings, David – Gifted Education International, 1987
The article identifies five modes of thinking--defensive, productive, adaptive, elaborative, and developmental. Case studies of artistic, creative writing illustrate the modes. A writing program designed to identify and develop these thinking modes is described. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Writing, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education
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Rogers, Wanda C. – Reading Teacher, 1985
Argues that teaching for poetic thought develops not only poets and lovers of poetry, but also readers, dreamers, and doers. Offers suggestions on how it is done.(FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Elementary Education, Language Usage
Perl, Sondra – New York University Education Quarterly, 1979
Composition is not a straightforward, linear process; it involves a creative search for meaning that becomes clear only as the writer engages in the composing process. This suggests that teaching not dwell on the correctness of the finished product. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Creativity
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