Creative thinking as a predictor of creative problem solving in architectural design students.

Abstract

The findings demonstrated that creative thinking, operationally defined as the cognitive ability to generate a large number of original ideas/solutions predicted creative thinking in solving problems in architecture. Research participants were 111 students of architectural design. A strong correlation was found between the predictor and criterion measures, r ϭ .45, p Ͻ .001. Creative problem solving in architectural design was more highly correlated with the verbal than with the figural component of the creative thinking measure, r ϭ .51, p Ͻ .001 and r ϭ .31, p Ͻ .005, respectively. The findings suggest the potential benefits of including both domain-general tests of ideational fluency and domain-specific tests of creative thinking in architectural problem solving in admission procedures for departments of architecture.

Comparing the dialogue of experts and novices in interdisciplinary teams to inform design education

“…Firstly, as design is solution orientated it has largely been associated with creative thinking. Creative thinking has been defined as the ability to think divergently and generate a large number of original ideas or solutions (Casakin et al 2010;Goldschmidt and Tatsa 2005). It is associated with ideation and brainstorming (Runco and Jaeger 2012).…”

Decision making and creativity: A qualitative study of MacArthur fellows

“…While researchers have concluded that creative people have been able to perceive and define problems differently, notice things that have been ignored by others, and have the demonstrated ability to develop inventions, solutions, and synthesis in various areas of study (Casakin et al, 2010;Hong & Milgram, 2010), there has been little research conducted that has investigated and evaluated the decision making strategies and creative processes used by creative individuals. This study attempted to illuminate the methods of decision making and the practices of creativity that the innovative participants employed.…”

“…The intersection of decision making and creativity was the focus of the study because this juncture provided both an interesting position from which to investigate the strategies individuals use to make decisions and a way to illuminate the creative processes that were used by the participants in decision making geared to solving problems. Understanding these phenomena is important because, although researchers, in a variety of studies (Casakin et al, 2010;Hong & Milgram, 2010), have demonstrated that creative people have been able to perceive and define problems differently, notice things that have been ignored by others, and have the ability to develop inventions, solutions, and syntheses, there has been little research conducted that has investigated how creative individuals describe the decision making strategies and creative processes they use in the process of making decisions to solve problems.…”

“…Domain general knowledge was not associated with a specific field and was considered more generic in nature (Dietrich, 2004). Research concerning the importance of each type of learning has produced mixed results, and no obvious answer has been provided by researchers (Casakin et al, 2010;Dietrich, 2004;Feldhusen & Goh, 1995;Fleming, 2012;Hong & Milgram, 2010;Lubart, 1994).…”

“…These creative thinkers have a cognitive ability to generate original ideas and solutions that may be used in the decision making process (Casakin, Davidovitch, & Milgram, 2010). This ability is termed creative thinking and is a skill that can lead to (a) noticing some obscure but important point in the situation (McCaffrey, 2012), (b) perceiving and defining problems in a different way (Gupta, Jang, Mednick, & Huber, 2012), and (c) formulating unpredictable and unorthodox solutions (Casakin et al, 2010).…”