• Research in Mathematical Education
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• v.9 no.2 s.22
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• pp.175-182
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• 2005

This paper will present two activity cases for developing mathematical creativity at The Center for Science Gifted Education (CSGE) of Chongju National University of Education of Korea. One is 'the magic card mystery'; the other is 'mathematicians' efforts to solve equations'.

• The Journal of Sustainable Design and Educational Environment Research
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.12-22
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to suggest a space planning direction that can more effectively support creativity and character education in elementary school. In order to do this, we investigated the current state of space creation and the space utilization of schools that operate creativity and Character Education programs. In addition, we surveyed and analyzed the user satisfaction and demand for school space in terms of creativity and character education. The results of this study are as follows: First, 23 design criteria were drawn for each main space in which creative and character education programs are conducted. Second, we investigated the priority and satisfaction of the space that is frequently used in the school for creativity and personality education. Third, we surveyed the types and priorities of new spaces needed to cultivate students' creativity and character. Fourth, 14 concrete space planning directions for creating creativity and character education were suggested.

• 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 Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.465-496
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• 2008

With leadership and speciality, creativity is cutting a fine figure among major values of human resource in 21C knowledge-based society. In the 7th school curriculum much emphasis is put on the importance of creativity by pursuing the image of human being based on creativity based on basic capabilities'. Also creativity is one of major factors of giftedness, and developing one's creativity is the core of the program for gifted education. Doing mathematics requires high order thinking and knowledgeable understandings. Thus mathematical creativity is used as a measure to test one's flexibility, and therefore it is the basic tool for creativity study. But theoretical study for mathematical creativity is not common. In this paper, we discuss mathematical creativity applied to 6 approaches suggested by Sternberg and Lubart in educational theory. That is, mystical approaches, pragmatical approaches, psycho-dynamic approaches, cognitive approaches, psychometric approaches and scio-personal approaches. This study expects to give useful tips for understanding mathematical creativity and understanding recent research results by reviewing various aspects of mathematical creativity.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.50-59
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• 2015

Recently, it has been emphasized that more girls should be able to contribute to society in the engineering field. However, there is little research for understanding the psychological characteristics of female engineering students. We first must understand their capabilities in order to take advantage of the strengths of female engineering college students. Based on this understanding, it is necessary to provide future educational interventions for them. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the gender differences in creativity in engineering education. Additionally, we wanted to know whether the differences were domain-specific or domain-general differences. For this, we targeted 351 engineering students in Busan and Daegu. An integrated creativity test and engineering creativity test were carried out. It was found that female engineering students had lower scores on both the integrated creativity and engineering creativity tests than male students. These results suggest that we should develop and apply appropriate strategies to enhance the creativity of female students in engineering education.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.99-110
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to develop an instructional module for creativity(lMC) which was mainly based on a unit ('Sun's family' in the 2nd semester of the 5th grade in the textbook), to verify the effect of this module on Elementary student's creativity and attitudes related to science. The subject in this study was two 5th grade classes from J elementary school located in Busan. One of the group took the lessons which were designed for the IMC, and the other group took the normal classes. The effect of this subject for the experimental group and controlled group was verified by post-test: creativity and attitude related to science. The results of this study are as follows. First, the experimental group showed more creativity than controlled group on the post-test. The IMC was more effective to enhance student's creativity than general class. Second, the IMC was effective to enhance student's creativity without the difference in academic ability level. Third, the IMC was effective to enhance student's creativity without the difference in the gender. Fourth, the IMC was more effective to change student's attitude related to science than general class in the module application.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.388-399
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• 2009

This study was designed to investigate whether applying mind mapping in a biology class had an effect on students' creativity. Participants of this study were 165 1st grade middle school students. The pretest-post test control group design was employed. A control group was instructed with a traditional method and an exerimental group was instructed using the mind-map applied method. The units "Digestion and Circulation" and "Respiration and Excretion" were selected for this study, and each group was treated for 24 class hours. To measure student creativity, the TTCT test was used. For assessing students' level of logical thinking, the compact version of GALT was used. Test results were analyzed by ANCOVA and correlation analysis by SPSS 12.0. The creativity of students in experimental group was significantly improved than the control group (p< .01). Fluency, flexibility, and originality of students in experimental group were improved (p< .01). Students did not show any differences on creativity according to their academic achievement level or gender (p> .05) in the experimental group. Students did not show any differences on creativity according to their logical thinking level (p> .05), either. However, the students of logical thinking level in the experimental group improved their flexibility (p< .05). There was no correlation between students' creativity and their achievement (p> .05), but the creativity shows a lower correlation to performance evaluation (p< .05).

• The Korean Journal of Elementary Counseling
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.447-463
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• 2012

The study were to examine relationship among creativity personality, career awareness, and occupational aspiration of elementary school students. For these purpose, we analysed the data from 322 elementary school students. Finding revealed that creativity personality positively related to career awareness and occupational aspiration. And creativity personality has significantly affected career awareness and occupational aspiration. Result of structural equation modeling analysis was creativity personality and career awareness were effect to occupational aspiration. However, career awareness had no mediating effect on the relation of creativity personality and occupational aspiration. The implication for career education and counseling practice are discussed based on he result of the present study.

• Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.1-15
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• 2019

This study aimed to identify the effects of students' empathy ability on group creativity, when elementary school students perform scientific activity designed to express group creativity. A total of 12 elementary students from a fifth-grade science club participated in this study. A pretest to examine the students' empathic ability was performed to classify them into three groups: A group with high, low and heterogeneous empathic members. The linguistic interaction was analyzed to determine the process of group creativity manifestation; the results were classified into 'metacognitive', 'cognitive', and 'social-communicative'. As a result, groups with high empathic ability showed more frequent interaction in monitoring, planning, and divergent thinking. On the other hand, in the case of the group with low level of empathy, it was confirmed that there are many interactions related to regulation, convergent thinking, and noncohesive prosocial interaction. Also, in the case of heterogeneous group with empathy ability, group creativity utterance on all sides was relatively higher than other groups. As a result of this study, we could confirm the influence of empathy as a strategy to help the group creativity and discuss the educational implications.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.207-215
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• 2001

The education has a intention of the best science technology in 21 century, creativity of them is been the most important. So, educationists are briskly making researches into existing programs of improving creativity, and they designed and implemented them. Our system provides the learners with instant feedback after solving the questions and can improve the creativity as evaluation module for tangram system using the web.