UNLABELLED The fact that faculty tutors do have different backgrounds and specialty has been a concern as a factor that contributes to disparity in the delivery of brainstorming session outcomes. This paper aims to introduce a road map in the form of a set of focused objective structured questions (OSBQs) for tutors to follow in brainstorming. METHODS Objectively structured questions were gen...

As a much needed quality in today’s businesses, creativity is an important area of research. Whilst implementing and evaluating computer support for electronic brainstorming, it was noticed that the sheer presence of technology does neither guarantee usage nor success. Contextual factors such as organisational culture and attitudes seem to have an equally important role, and this observation ca...

the purpose of the present study is to develop appropriate scoring scales for each of the defined stages of the writing process, and also to determine to what extent these scoring scales can reliably and validly assess the performances of efl learners in an academic writing task. two hundred and two students’ writing samples were collected after a step-by-step process oriented essay writing ins...

Penelitian dilakukan untuk melihat pengaruh metode pembelajaran brainstorming terhadap keterampilan berpikir kreatif siswa dalam menyelesaikan masalah relasi dan fungsi. Sampel diambil secara purposive sampling dengan sampel adalah SMPN 2 Cikulur kelas 8B 8C. Metode yang digunakan quasi eksperimen desain non randomized pretest-posttest nonequivalen control group design. Data pretest posttest. P...

Emergent idea creation is an important function in organizations for stimulating innovation, and is often accomplished through group activities such as brainstorming using Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS). Research has attempted to provide some best practices related to the various components of GDSS, with mixed results. This article focuses on the advantages of one type of GDSS, Electroni...

This is a list of open problems and research topics collected after the Twelfth Conference on Membrane Computing, CMC 2012 (Fontainebleau, France (23 26 August 2011), meant initially to be a working material for Tenth Brainstorming Week on Membrane Computing, Sevilla, Spain (January 30 February 3, 2012). The result was circulated in several versions before the brainstorming and then modified ac...

Brainstorming and discussions with users about their situated needs is difficult with nomadic users as the situation and location setting in the discussion is often lost in traditional workshops in meeting rooms. In many fields, conducting them in situ is difficult for both ethical and practical reasons, such as in a hospital. To mitigate this, a combination of methods is often necessary to ens...

Many crowd ideation systems seek to gather scores of ideas from people online. However, this often leads to many bad ideas and duplication. A dedicated facilitator who guides exploration of the solution space is a common and effective strategy for optimizing ideation in face-to-face brainstorming, but has not yet been explored in computer-supported crowd ideation. We introduce IdeaGens, a socia...