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http://dx.doi.org/10.14697/jkase.2016.36.4.0527

Investigation of 'Group Scientific Creativity' Factors in Gifted Students' Creative Project Solving Context  

Hong, Eunjeong (Dankook University)
Heo, Namyoung (Busan National Science Museum)
Lee, Bongwoo (Dankook University)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.36, no.4, 2016 , pp. 527-538 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to select the factors of 'Group scientific creativity' and to find out how 'Group scientific creativity' turns out in the creative problem-solving process of students. To select the factors that affect 'Group scientific creativity', this research extracted 27 influencing factors on the group creativity from the prior study and organized them according to opinions of education experts. To select factors that affect 'Group scientific creativity' in the creative problem-solving process of students, this research analyzed the group problem-solving process that has been done on 72 gifted students for two days. Main results of the study is as follows: First, nine elements such as scientific thinking, scientific knowledge, scientific information-processing capacity, motivation, challenge, age and gender, existence of diversity, creativity educational experience, and the group cohesiveness were selected as human factors. Four elements such as scientific communication skills, scientific inquiry process, autonomy, and leadership were selected as the combining factors. Also, three elements such as the learning environment, teacher types, and compensation were selected as the Environmental factors. Second, it was possible to find that the group scientific creativity influence factors affecting the creative process by analyzing the gifted students in creative-problem solving process. Based on these results, this study described additional points on the factors improving 'Group scientific-creativity.'
Keywords
group scientific creativity; influence factor; creativity project; science-gifted student;
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