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Student Perspectives on Improvisation as a Tool for Developing Interactional Competence: The Case of Polish Secondary Students Learning French
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Julia Lipinska – Language Learning Journal, 2024
Improvisational theatre activities can be used as a tool for developing interactional competence in a language classroom. The unpredictable nature of improvisation resembles authentic communication, as it requires topic negotiation, spontaneous reactions and cooperation. The present article examines the student perspective on improvisation, which…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Second Language Learning, French, Foreign Countries
The Creation of Digital Artefacts as a Mechanism to Engage Students in Studying Literature
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Walton, Geoff; Childs, Mark; Jugo, Gordana – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
The aim of the project was to motivate school students to learn about the national literature of their own and others' countries. Engagement was fostered via the creation of digital artefacts (or "e-artefacts") such as online comic strips, live videos or animations. The pedagogical rationale was based on Papert's constructionism and…
Descriptors: Literature, Computer Uses in Education, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries
The Order Matters: Asking about Creative Activity Calibrates Creative Self-Concept
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Czerwonka, Marta; Karwowski, Maciej – Creativity Research Journal, 2018
People tend to perceive and assess their own creativity in a positive, yet not always accurate, way. This study explores whether differences in self-ratings of the creative self-concept (creative self-efficacy and creative personal identity) are related to the sequence in which self-report measures are applied: the order effect. A randomly chosen…
Descriptors: Creativity, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Self Concept, Sequential Approach
Creativity and Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analysis
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Gajda, Aleksandra; Karwowski, Maciej; Beghetto, Ronald A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
This article reports on a meta-analysis of 120 studies (total N = 52,578; 782 effects) examining the relationship between creativity and academic achievement in research conducted since the 1960s. Average correlation between creativity and academic achievement was r = 0.22, 95% CI [0.19, 0.24]. An analysis of moderators revealed that this…
Descriptors: Creativity, Academic Achievement, Meta Analysis, Correlation
How Do People Construct Communication about Their Creative Process? Study on Future Creative Professionals
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Gliniecka, Martyna – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
Process of communication can be challenging. At first participants must standardize their concepts of things to hold them close enough to others' concepts, then it's crucial to use appropriate expressions to verbalize those concepts to ensure the mutual understanding. Therefore, it can be problematic when cognitive constructs are hard to…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Thinking, Questionnaires, Questioning Techniques
Implementation of the Project "Including Disabled Senior Citizens in Creative Activities in 2013-2015"
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Ploch, Leszek – Practice and Theory in Systems of Education, 2015
This paper made an attempt to indicate the findings of the author's research from the experiences of the implementation of the project "Including disabled senior citizens in creative activities in 2013-2015". The issues of disabled senior citizens have been an object of interest over the recent years though it still has not had a proper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Inclusion, Disabilities