Research on retrieval-induced forgetting has shown that retrieval can cause the forgetting of related or competing items in memory (Anderson, Bjork, & Bjork, 1994). In the present research, we examined whether an analogous phenomenon occurs in the context of creative problem solving. Using the Remote Associates Test (RAT; Mednick, 1962), we found that attempting to generate a novel common assoc...

The work aims to improve the assessment of creative problem-solving in science education by employing language technologies and computational–statistical machine learning methods to grade students’ natural language responses automatically. To evaluate constructs like creative problem-solving with validity, open-ended questions that elicit students’ constructed responses are beneficial. But the ...

Creativity is often seen as a crucial element in the innovation process. However, the individual and group creativity is difficult to recognise and support for the corporate innovation process. This research searches answers how information systems (IS) could facilitate the creativity, learning and problem-solving processes. Findings from systems theories literature suggest that social networks...

This experimental study tested the spreading-activation hypothesis that an incubation period helps to sensitize problem solvers to relevant concepts. The study also tested the selective forgetting hypothesis that an incubation period helps to desensitize problem solvers to irrelevant concepts. Chinese Chess GO players, 28 experts and 29 novices, solved 18 remote association tasks (RAT) and lexi...

This research proposes a user modeling framework which aims to assess and model users’ creative problem-solving ability from their self-explained ideas for a specific scenario of problem-solving. The proposed framework, User Problem-Solving Ability Modeler (UPSAM), is mainly designed to accommodate to the needs of studying students’ Creative Problem-Solving (CPS) abilities in the area of scienc...

Received (Day Month Year) Revised (Day Month Year) There are many creative thinking manual methods in the world. They are brain-storming method, brain-writing method, mind mapping, NM method, Equivalent Transformation method, KJ method, etc. Human thinking process for creative problem solving consists of 4 sub-processes. They are divergent thinking sub-process, convergent thinking sub-process, ...

Although IVA involves complex analysis it also requires creativity and novelty. This paper developed a framework (Figure 1) for understanding and explaining digital creativity in IVA. This was achieved via a synthesis of existing literature in creativity, data analysis, visualisation and interactivity, and through analysis of existing IVA software, as well as our own development experience. Bac...

Researchers and teachers are increasingly in agreement that classrooms should adopt more open-ended, ill-structured, creative problem solving pedagogies (Kapur, 2008). However, we lack sufficient understandings of how to assess the variegated outputs of learning activities that afford students considerable discretion over what they will produce, and of the mechanisms through which group work ca...