TY - GEN
T1 - A study of student technological creativity using online problem-solving activities
AU - Chang, Yu Shan
AU - Tseng, Kou Hung
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of online (web-based) creative problem-solving (CPS) activities on student technological creativity and to examine the characteristics of student creativity in the context of online CPS. A pretest-posttest quasi-experiment was conducted with 107 fourth-grade students in Taiwan. The quantitative analysis revealed that the technological creativity of the online-CPS students was better than that of the traditional group. It was evident that students in the online-CPS groups were better at analytic than at synthetic thinking. Metaphor and analogy were used to produce new ideas most frequently. In addition to generating ideas by themselves, students arrived at solutions by refining and adapting others' thoughts with little discussion or interaction on the web. Consideration of the feasibility of production was the most important factor in the technological creativity of students
AB - The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of online (web-based) creative problem-solving (CPS) activities on student technological creativity and to examine the characteristics of student creativity in the context of online CPS. A pretest-posttest quasi-experiment was conducted with 107 fourth-grade students in Taiwan. The quantitative analysis revealed that the technological creativity of the online-CPS students was better than that of the traditional group. It was evident that students in the online-CPS groups were better at analytic than at synthetic thinking. Metaphor and analogy were used to produce new ideas most frequently. In addition to generating ideas by themselves, students arrived at solutions by refining and adapting others' thoughts with little discussion or interaction on the web. Consideration of the feasibility of production was the most important factor in the technological creativity of students
KW - distance education and telelearning
KW - distributed learning environments
KW - elementary education
KW - teaching/learning strategies
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U2 - 10.1109/ICECENG.2011.6056950
DO - 10.1109/ICECENG.2011.6056950
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80955140312
SN - 9781424481637
T3 - 2011 International Conference on Electrical and Control Engineering, ICECE 2011 - Proceedings
SP - 6272
EP - 6276
BT - 2011 International Conference on Electrical and Control Engineering, ICECE 2011 - Proceedings
T2 - 2nd Annual Conference on Electrical and Control Engineering, ICECE 2011
Y2 - 16 September 2011 through 18 September 2011
ER -