Creativity: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Guilford, J. P.

doi:10.1002/j.2162-6057.1967.tb00002.x

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“…Its reach is so wide and its implementation so broad that a complete definition is elusive within the research. Guilford (1967aGuilford ( , 1967bGuilford ( , 1959 provided one of the first definitions for research as part of his Structure-of-Intellect model, defining creativity in a similar way to other types of human thought. His is one of the first definitions; Starko (2014) and others point to a plethora of creativity research suggesting many different definitions of creativity across the psychology disciplines (Parkhurst, 1999;Kozbelt, Beghetto, & Runco, 2010).…”

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An Investigation of the State of Creativity and Critical Thinking in Engineering Undergraduates

Sola¹,

Hoekstra²,

Fiore³

et al. 2017

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The goal of an undergraduate engineering education is to provide students with the necessary knowledge and skills needed to solve real world problems. Creativity and critical thinking are two abilities essential for success in the workplace, and are highly sought after by employers. However, there is evidence of decreasing creativity and critical thinking in senior engineering students. This study sought to understand if freshman engineering students are measurably more creative, but less capable of critical thinking, than senior undergraduate engineering students. Creativity and critical thinking were measured using the Test for Creative Thinking-Drawing Production (TCT-DP) and the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (WGCTA), respectively. The data suggest that freshman engineering students were significantly more creative than senior engineering students. However, senior engineering students were found to be no better at critical thinking than their freshman counterparts. When compared to normative data, the senior engineering students underperformed significantly compared to the general population of senior college students. With study limitations in mind, these findings may suggest that senior engineering students are not only less creative, but also less capable of critical thinking, than when they started their engineering program. If this is indeed the appropriate conclusion, then there is a need to understand the underlying issues driving the decline of creativity and critical thinking in engineering undergraduate students.

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“…Guilford (1950Guilford ( , 1967aGuilford ( , 1959 proposed the concept of divergent thinking based on his observations that creative people tended to utilize this style of thought more than others. Additionally, Guilford detailed divergent thinking in terms of fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration.…”

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An Investigation of the State of Creativity and Critical Thinking in Engineering Undergraduates

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Fiore³

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“…4; creativity (Atasoy et al, 2007). For example, in Guilford's (1967) study it is stated that suggesting only a single solution method is convergent thinking and producing multiple solution method through flexible thinking is divergent thinking. Therefore, the result found for the problem solving is not contrary to the literature.…”

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Is There a Relationship between Creativity and Mathematical Creativity?

Arıkan¹

2017

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The aim of this study is to examine the mathematical creativity of individuals who think they have creative thinking skills. Forty-four teachers who work in private schools participated in this study and they have their pedagogical formation training from a public university in order to be a public teacher. Also participants have at least one year of experience. Mixed method research is defined as combining qualitative and quantitative methods, approaches and concepts in successive studies (Creswell, 2003). This study was determined as a mixed method research since data first analyzed by content analysis (qualitative) and then relationship and comparison analysis (quantitative). In order to analyse problem situation of the study, two testing instruments one of which is ready to use were utilized. Problem solving and problem posing test as two items was developed by the researcher. On item was given to participants as a geometry problem in the testing instrument and they were asked to solve this problem by using as many different methods as they can. The other item was given to participants as a semi-structured geometry situation. They were asked to pose as many problems as they can by using this situation. Data obtained from solving draft were divided into categories in terms of flexibility, fluency and originality according to content analysis from qualitative data analyses for each participants.As a result of the study, according to the teachers' creativity that they stated, we can talk about their mathematical creativity only if they can pose an authentic problem.

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“…From the view of "personality", some scholar suggested that "creativity involves the activities of individual plan and organization." (Guilford,1967) [8] Some scholar made the definition from the view of "progress" and suggested that creativity is a series of thinking progress. (Torrance, 1974) [14] The definition that is acknowledged by most scholars came from Amiable, named that "creativity is a certain combination of individual personality, cognitive and social environment."…”

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Entrepreneurial Intention, Entrepreneurial Knowledge and Entrepreneurial Behavior of Female Students in Higher Vocational Colleges: An Interactive Perspective

Zhou¹,

Ruan²,

Yang³

2015

Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education

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Abstract-In recent years, colleges have paid more attention to entrepreneurship education. The government in china emphasizes much on the entrepreneurship issues, puts forward many programs and policies of supporting college students' entrepreneurship, and encourages them to start their own business or entrepreneurial activities, but college students are faced with different challenges and risks in their real entrepreneurial activities all the time. At present, there are many researches on the entrepreneur intention of college students. In this research, based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen, 1991)[2],we discusses the entrepreneurial behavior of female students in higher vocational colleges, mediating role of creativity and moderating Effect of entrepreneurial knowledge, which are analyzed from the view of gender. The female students in higher vocational colleges are taken as the target of investigation to discuss the relation between entrepreneur intention and entrepreneurial behavior.

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Creativity: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Cited by 628 publications

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An Investigation of the State of Creativity and Critical Thinking in Engineering Undergraduates

An Investigation of the State of Creativity and Critical Thinking in Engineering Undergraduates

Is There a Relationship between Creativity and Mathematical Creativity?

Entrepreneurial Intention, Entrepreneurial Knowledge and Entrepreneurial Behavior of Female Students in Higher Vocational Colleges: An Interactive Perspective

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