Original scientific paper
CREATIVITY AND DIVERGENT THINKING IN NATURAL SCIENCE TEACHING
Antonio Svedružić
Abstract
The concept of »problem« and its solving in the context of contemporary philosophy and natural science methodology is explicated in this paper.
The aim of the research is to make a metrically reliable instrument for measuring the scientific creativity and the components of divergent thinking, so as to solve the problem of the relation between scholastic ability and creativity and the relation between certain components of divergent thinking.
The results of the research obtained by using the scientific creativity test confirmed the indications of the correlation between scholastic ability and the students´ creative potentials, as well as the differences in the distribution of results concerning certain components of divergent thinking.
Keywords
Problem; creative act; divergent thinking; scientific creativity test
Hrčak ID:
2340
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Publication date:
9.1.2006.
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