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Shen, Wangbing; Hommel, Bernhard; Yuan, Yuan; Chang, Liu; Zhang, Wei – Creativity Research Journal, 2018
The relationship between risk-taking and creativity is critical to understanding social harmony and innovation. Although some studies have assessed the link between risk-taking and divergent thinking, the association between risk-taking and convergent thinking remains unclear. Two studies were conducted to systemically investigate whether…
Descriptors: Risk, Creativity, Convergent Thinking, Association Measures
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Wang, Lixia; Xu, Xiaobo; Wang, Qing; Healey, Grace; Su, Liang; Pang, Weiguo – Creativity Research Journal, 2017
Schizophrenia and schizotypy have been often associated with above average creativity; however, empirical studies on the relationship between schizophrenia spectrum disorders and enhanced creativity generated inconsistent results. This research investigates if the association between schizophrenia spectrum disorders and creative potential levels…
Descriptors: Personality, Personality Traits, Schizophrenia, Creativity
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Agnoli, Sergio; Corazza, Giovanni E.; Runco, Mark A. – Creativity Research Journal, 2016
This article presents the structure and the composition of a newly developed multifaceted test battery for the measurement of creativity within scientific and artistic domains. By integrating existing procedures for the evaluation of creativity, the new battery promises to become a comprehensive assessment of creativity, encompassing both…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Thinking, Measurement, Convergent Thinking
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Mohamed, Ahmed Dahir – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2016
Modafinil is a drug licensed for the treatment of narcolepsy and sleep apnea. Recently, modafinil has been reported to be used as a pharmacological cognitive enhancer by healthy individuals with no psychiatric disorders. This paper reports on a study that investigated the effects of modafinil on divergent and convergent thinking tasks of…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Convergent Thinking, Creativity, Randomized Controlled Trials
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Kanne, Stephen M.; Wang, Jennifer; Christ, Shawn E. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
The current study was motivated by a need for a self-report questionnaire that assesses a broad range of subthreshold autism traits, is brief and easily administered, and is relevant to the general population. An initial item pool was administered to 1,709 students. Structural validity analysis resulted in a 24-item questionnaire termed the…
Descriptors: Autism, Factor Structure, Questionnaires, Factor Analysis
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Dös, Bülent; Bay, Erdal; Aslansoy, Ceyda; Tiryaki, Betül; Çetin, Nurgül; Duman, Cevahir – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
Questioning has been utilized as a critical assessment tool for centuries. It has been thought that there is a relationship between asking good questions and effective teaching. In order to analyze teachers' questioning strategies from various aspects, this study was conducted during the 2014-2015 academic year with 170 primary school teachers…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Primary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Williams, Sheri S.; Jaramillo, Amy; Pesko, John Carl – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2015
This study explored what instructors can do to improve student depth of thinking in online discussion boards (DBs). Participants were graduate students enrolled in online courses within a college of education in the southwest United States. Measurement consisted of discourse analysis of posts in DBs and student self-assessment of dispositions,…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Computer Mediated Communication, Group Discussion, Graduate Students
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Lindqvist, G.; Nilholm, C.; Almqvist, L.; Wetso, G. -M. – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2011
The purpose of the present paper is to investigate how different occupational groups explain why children have problems in school, how they believe schools should help these children and the role they believe that special educational needs coordinators (SENCOs) should have in such work. A questionnaire was distributed to all teaching and support…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Special Education, Teacher Role, Questionnaires