Creativity on demand – Hacking into creative problem solving

The Effect of Creative Problem Solving Training on Creativity and Life Satisfaction of Gifted Boy Students

Background and Purpose: Gifted and creative students are the potential assets of each society whose talents development has been always one of the concerns of the educational system. Present research was conducted to investigate the effect of creative problem solving training on creativity and life satisfaction of gifted male students. Method: This study was a quasi-experimental research with p...

Fostering the Creativity of Gifted Students: A Comprehensive Creative Problem Solving Program

Creativity is crucially important for talented people because it helps them potentially increase their power and this is for the benefit of society. The present research has endeavored to examine the effectiveness of a comprehensive Creative Problem Solving Program in increasing the creativity of gifted students. This quasi-experimental study had a pretest-posttest control group design. The sam...

Creative strategies in problem solving

Three experiments investigated how individuals solve “shape” problems. These problems are not susceptible to a meansends strategy. They consist of a configuration of squares, whose sides consist of separate pieces; and the task is to remove a given number of pieces to leave behind a given number of squares. The paper presents a theory of how individuals develop strategies for these problems. Ex...

Creative Problem Solving Using GroupSystems

Creativity is an important issue in the world of collaboration and it is widely accepted that techniques of creativity can energize participants and improve effectiveness of meetings. Specifically these techniques have been applied to ‘creative problem solving’. This paper analyses why it can be difficult to be creative in conventional meetings and. describes some current techniques for encoura...

Situated creativity-inspired problem-solving