the present study is an investigation into the relationship between iranian efl teachers’ degree of creativity and language learners’ academic achievement. to this end, six female english teachers and 81 male and female advanced english learners from a private language institute were asked to take part in the study. data were collected through torrance test of creative thinking (ttct) and stude...

Creativity, whether seen in personal or historical scope, is always relative, subject to the contextual expectations of an observer. From the point of view of a creative agent, such expectations can be seen as soft constraints that must be violated in order to be deemed as creative. In the present work, learned conventions are modeled as emergent activity clusters (pre-concepts) in a selforgani...

The relationship between creativity and academic achievement is investigated in this study to understand the nature of these relationships in the intelligence continuum among 497 Form Four Malaysian students. Intelligence was measured using Cattel’s Culture Fair Intelligence Tests and Creativity was measured using Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. Four groups were formed based on creativity ...

Creativity can hardly be understood in isolation from a context where values such as novelty and usefulness are ascribed. This paper presents a multi-level perspective for the study of creativity and formulates a framework for computational creativity that consists of 1) Culture; 2) Society; 3) Groups; 4) Products; 5) Personality; 6) Cognition, 7) Neural processes; and 8) CC processes. This mod...

This study examined self-assessed creativity and design. In particular, it analyzed the relationships of self-assessment with the level of expertise, and the grades obtained by students in the course of their academic studies, with possible implications for design education. Findings support the view that self-assessed creativity is a valid and legitimate tool for design evaluation. Understandi...

The purpose of this study was to use faultline theory to examine the effects of gender diversity on team creativity. Results from 80 teams working on an idea generation task indicated that the activation of gender faultlines negatively affected the number and overall creativity of ideas. However, gender faultlines that were not activated had no effect. Results also indicated that the relationsh...

In this paper we analyze the communication network of 50 students from five universities in three countries participating in a joint course on Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs). Students formed ten teams. Interaction variables calculated from the e-mail archive of individual team members predict the level of creativity of the team. Oscillating leadership, where members switch between ce...

Reality-based interfaces (RBIs) such as tabletop and tangible user interfaces offer unique opportunities for supporting creativity. In this paper, we present a multitiered evaluation framework for reality-based creativity support environments and describe its application in the context of college-level science education. The proposed framework consists of three layers that examine the usability...