Teaching Creativity and Inventive Problem Solving in Science

Software for inventive problem-solving

In the past decade, knowledge management has played a critical and active role in business settings at the organisation level. Recently, the importance of knowledge management is becoming increasingly recognised in e-government. A key challenge of studying knowledge management in e-government is to extrapolate our current understanding in business settings to the public domain and the societal ...

Evolution of Information during Problem Solving in Inventive Design

Inventive design implies solving problems for which no known typical solution does exist. Designing a new system means building a representation of a concept that could be recognised and validated as a solution. Which knowledge is useful to represent a specific problem? What is the nature of this useful knowledge? Which amount of knowledge is required to solve a problem? What is an adequate way...

Situated creativity-inspired problem-solving

Teaching Inventive Thinking*

This paper reports on a new undergraduate course at Florida Atlantic University titled: “Introduction to Inventive Problem Solving in Engineering”. The goal is to enhance inventive thinking abilities of undergraduate students resulting in skills that can be used in science, math, engineering and technology. The course is focused on developing thinking skills that stay with the students, and is ...

The Effect of Teaching Problem-Solving Skill on the Creativity and Academic Motivation of Secondary School Students

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of problem-solving skills training on students' creativity and academic motivation. The research method was semi-experimental with pretest-posttest and control group. The statistical population of the study consisted of all female secondary school students in Mashhad, in the first half of the first semester of the first academic year of 20...