• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.885-905
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to examine creativity styles of elementary science gifted students through the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT). For this study, the TTCT-Figural Form A was used, with data form 206 elementary science gifted students, which included 56 urban students, 115 suburban students, and 35 rural students. Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to examine a two-factor model of creativity styles based on Kim's (2006). Level of creativity was analyzed on the basis of the creativity styles and the numbers of creativity styles were analyzed according to region, grade, and gender. The results are as follows: Factor innovative was loaded by fluency and originality; factor adaptive loaded by elaboration, abstractness of titles, and creative strength; and both factor innovative and factor adaptive loaded by resistance to premature closure. The percentage of adaptive styles is higher than the innovative styles. Urban had more adaptors than rural. There were more adaptors in 6th grade than 5th grade. Gifted female adaptors had significantly higher creative potential than gifted male adaptors and gifted female innovators also showed higher creative potential than gifted male innovators. Creativity styles can give more information about individuals' strengths and weakness so that do an important role in understanding characteristics of gifted students.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.117-134
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• 2011

The purpose of this research was to analyze mathematical task types to enhance creativity. Creativity is increasingly important in every field of disciplines and industries. To be excel in the 21st century, students need to have habits to think creatively in mathematics learning. The method of the research was to collect the previous research and papers concerning creativity and mathematics. To search the materials, the researcher used the search engines such as the GIL and the KISTI. The mathematical task types to enhance creativity were categorized 16 different types according to their forms and characteristics. The types of tasks include (1) requiring various strategies, (2) requiring preferences on strategies, (3) making word problems, (4) making parallel problems, (5) requiring transforming problems, (6) finding patterns and making generalization, (7) using open-ended problems, (8) asking intuition for final answers, (9) asking patterns and generalization (10) requiring role plays, (11) using literature, (12) using mathematical puzzles and games, (13) using various materials, (14) breaking patterned thinking, (15) integrating among disciplines, and (16) encouraging to change our lives. To enhance students' creativity in mathematics teaching and learning, the researcher recommended the followings: reshaping perspectives toward teaching and learning, developing and providing creativity-rich tasks, applying every day life, using open-ended tasks, using various types of tasks, having assessment ability, changing assessment system, and showing and doing creative thinking and behaviors of teachers and parents.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.313-326
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• 2006

본 연구는 중학교 2학년 141명의 학생을 대상으로 수학 창의성(Mathematical Creative Problem Solving Ability Test: KEDI, 1997)과 성격유형(Murphy-Meisgeier Type Indicator for Children: 심혜숙 김정택, 1993)과의 상관관계를 조사하였다. 자료 분석은 중학생의 성격 특성을 알아보기 위하여 유형별로 빈도와 백분율을 산출하였고, 성격유형에 따른 수학 창의성의 차이를 검증하기 위하여 평한, 표준편차, t-test, ANOVA와 Duncan 사후검증을 실시하였다. 본 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫 번째, 일반 중학교 2학년과 비교해 볼 때, 선호지표에서 연구 집단의 중학생은 표준화집단(심혜숙 김정택, 1993)보다 I(2.7%), J(3.9%)가 높았다. 두 번째, 수학 창의성과 성격유형을 살펴본 결과, 기질적 측면에서 유창성, 융통성, 수학 창의성 전체에서 NF형이 SJ, SP형에 비해 의미 있게 높았고, SJ형도 SP형에 비해 의미 있게 높게 나타났다. 세 번째, 성격유형 중에서 어떤 요인이 중학교 2학년의 수학 창의성을 잘 예측해 주는지를 살펴본 결과, 직관(N), 내향(I)이 수학 창의성의 예인변인으로서 유의하였다. 이러한 결과와 관련하여 수학 창의성 검사도구 및 수학창의성 프로그램 개발 시 직관과 내향을 우선적으로 고려하여야 한다. 네 번째 NT와 {SP, SJ, NF}는 통계적으로 유의미하게 같은 수준의 집단이 아니므로 직관적사고형(NT)이 감각적 감정형(SF), 감각적 사고형(ST), 직관적 감정형(NF)과는 독립된 특별한 요인으로 보인다. 직관적사고형(NT)은 조사와 개념 학습이나 소크라테스식의 문답법적인 학습과 문제해결학습을 선호하고 독립심이 지지되는 분위기의 학급을 선호한다. 따라서 수학 창의성 증진과 관련된 교육과정이나 프로그램개발 시 조사와 개념 학습이나 소크라테스식의 문답법적인 학습과 문제해결학습을 우선적으로 고려하여야 할 것이다. 연구 결과와 관련하여 연구의 제한점과 후속연구를 위한 제언은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 연구대상이 특정지역의 중학교 2학년 학생이므로 연구결과를 우리나라 중학교 2학년으로 일반화시키는데는 무리가 있을 수 있다. 따라서 후속연구에서는 연구대상의 표집을 확대하여 볼 필요가 있다. 둘째, 수학 창의성과 성격유형간의 관계와 관련하여 수학 창의성과 성격유형의 각 하위 차원들 간에 적률 상관계수를 통해 상관관계를 분석해 보는 것이 필요하다. 셋째 직관과 내향 및 조사와 개념 학승이나 소크라테스식의 문답법적인 학습과 문제해결학습을 고려한 수학 창의성 프로그램이 개발할 필요가 있다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.79-88
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to identify the difference of creativity according to the type of brain dominance for deveoping pre-service early childhood teachers's creativity teacher education program. The subjects of this study were 210 pre-service early childhood teachers. The tests were conducted by using the Herrmann' BDI and TTCT: verbal. The study have applied Pearson product-moment correlation to find out relation between the type of brain dominance and creativity, and used multi-variate analysis to find out the difference of creativity according to the type of brain dominance. The results of the study are as follow; first, the upper left brain, lower left limb, and right brains had no relation to fluency, flexibility, originality and overall linguistic creativity. The lower right limb showed a positive correlation with fluency, flexibility, originality, and overall linguistic creativity. Second, the lower left, upper right lower, and lower right limb dominant teachers showed higher fluency, flexibility, originality and overall linguistic creativity than upper left neural dominant teachers. The result of analyzing the language creativity according to the type of brain dominance of the pre-service early childhood teachers will be used as a suggestion to develop the brain-based creativity teacher education program.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.129-145
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• 2012

This study investigated factors of creativity and interaction between factors that are revealed when gifted students designed scientific experiments. For this, we firstly developed items which required the written process of designing experiments to explore creativity factors. Then, we used these items as a part for letters of self-introduction to students who applied for 2011 correspondence education of general physics for the Korea Physics Olympiad. 513th letters of self-introduction which were analyzed to investigate factors of creativity in view of creativity definition after researchers' consultation, which specifically means a combination of divergent and convergent thinking. The results were as follows; (1) in the step of hypothesis building, we could not only find Originality and the Flexibility & Fluency, which were factors of divergent thinking, but also Coherency and Elaborateness, which were factors of convergent thinking. (2) in the step of the hypothesis testing, we could explore Originality, Flexibility & Fluency in divergent thinking and Coherency, Reliability, Clarity, Elaborateness in convergent thinking. (3) we also figured out three creativity types of gifted students from the viewpoint that creativity is a consequence of interaction between divergent thinking and convergent thinking; a) Type A showed divergent and convergent factors of creativity in the step of hypothesis building. However, type A did not include divergent factors of creativity on the process of the hypothesis testing. b) Type B had divergent and convergent factors of creativity on the process of the hypothesis testing, but it had not convergent factors of creativity on the step of hypothesis building. c) Finally, in Type C, only divergent factors of creativity appeared on the process of the hypothesis testing, but convergent factors of creativity could be found on the step of hypothesis building and hypothesis testing.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.33-49
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• 2022

This study aims to explore, using both quantitative and qualitative data analyzing the structural relationship between creative process and product, the types of elementary students' scientific creativity. For this, 105 fifth-graders responded to a scientific creativity test that assesses creative process and product, and four students who scored the highest were interviewed. In the interview, they were asked about the cognitive process they used in generating the creative product. Then, correlation analysis and structural equation modeling were used, along with the interview data, to type the students. The main findings of the study are as follows. First, the structural equation modeling of creative process and product gave satisfactory results in absolute and incremental fit indexes. Second, among the three components of creative process - knowledge, inquiry skill-observation, and creative thinking skills -, only creative thinking skills had significant effects on creative product. Third, divergent thinking skills had the strongest correlation with the creative product, followed by convergent thinking skills. Associational thinking skills did not have significant correlation. Fourth, elementary students' scientific creativity could be categorized into Creative Type, Useful Type, Original Type, and Non-creative Type, based on their creative product. The Non-creative Type could be further classified into Common Type, Repetitive Type, Non-response Type, Irrelevant Type, and Abstract Type. Fifth, most students used either knowledge or observation in their creative process, making them either Knowledge-oriented Type or Observation-oriented Type. In addition, there were DT Type, DT-CT Type, and DT-CT-AT Type among the students, based on the kinds of creative thinking skills they mainly used in the process. This study provides implications for educators and researchers in scientific creativity education.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.66-78
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• 2019

This study aimed to investigate the effects of scaffolding on creativity in Wiki-based collaborative learning. Wiki-based collaborative learning was implemented over three sessions among 67 sixth graders in an elementary school, and subjects were divided into three groups: Group 1 had a teachers' scaffolding and self-questioning script; Group 2 had a teachers' scaffolding; and Group 3, the control group, had no scaffolding. Results showed a significant difference in creativity among the groups with different types of scaffolding(Wilks' Lambda=.238, F=8.678, p < .001). Group 1, had significantly higher performance compared to the Group in creativity. However, when self-questoning script and a teachers' scaffolding were offered, self-scaffolding was not found to have a significant effect on learners' Originality of creativity. Group 2 showed higher performance in Originality of creativity when only a teachers' scaffolding was offered in the collaborative learning. The results of this study suggest that teachers' scaffolding and self-scaffolding have positive effects on creativity, but the need for a differentiated self-scaffolding strategy to identify the factors that influence creativity in wiki-based collaborative learning.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.5-20
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• 2006

This study is a part of the research on measuring and developing the creativity of college students, especially of engineering college students. This study was done in the class of imaginative design engineering which was a creativity training program integrated with engineering majors, including idea generation skills, creative problem solving, patent applications, design, manufacturing and marketing. Participants in this program were 75 freshman strudetns in engineering college. The achievements in this program were measured by the figural form of TTCT(Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking), as well as MBTI(Myers-Briggs Type Indicator). The results are as follows. First, TTCT scores of the participants in imaginetive design engineering increased significantly. Second, type indicator scores of MBTI varied significantly, to the directions of extrovert, feeling, and perception. Therefore, according to the results of this study, we can conclude the imaginative design engineering class had significant positive effects on the creativity of the engineering students.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.375-386
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• 2004

Creative thinking alone can not lead to scientific creativity. Scientific knowledge and scientific inquiry skills are needed for scientific creativity. Focused only on cognitive aspect, I suggested a cognitive model of scientific creativity (CMSC) consisting of 3 components: thinking for scientific creativity, scientific knowledge contents, and scientific inquiry skills. Recently, many researchers have emphasized the various thinking for creativity as well as divergent thinking. Therefore, I suggested three types of creative thinking - divergent thinking, convergent thinking, and associational thinking - and discussed its rationale. Based on this model, an example of activity material for the scientific creativity was suggested. In the further research, based on CMSC, various activity types related to scientific creativity and concrete learning materials for scientific creativity will be developed.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.310-327
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• 2013

This study aims to develop teaching materials for scientific creativity and to introduce it in more detail. To do this, based on the analysis of the previous studies, we developed about 80 activities in five categories. Main features of the developed materials are as follows: (1) it covers various areas of creativity, (2) each activity includes elements of scientistic creativity, (3) each activity includes guides for thinking creatively and instances of the guides, (4) these guides are categorized to be utilized in other situations for teaching creativity, (5) the activities can be transformed according to actual teaching situations. The teachers gave responses that materials were appropriate to teach scientific creativity and that they wanted to use the materials in schools. And based on the teachers' response about the advantages, disadvantages, and conditions for more effective use of the materials, we hope that further studies for actual use and revisions on the materials will be conducted. Finally, we suggested various methods to use the developed activities for different purposes and educational situations.