ERIC Number: EJ996150
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013-Mar
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0175
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Increasing Students' Scientific Creativity: The "Learn to Think" Intervention Program
Hu, Weiping; Wu, Baojun; Jia, Xiaojuan; Yi, Xinfa; Duan, Chunyan; Meyer, Winter; Kaufman, James C.
Journal of Creative Behavior, v47 n1 p3-21 Mar 2013
The "Learn to Think" (LTT) Intervention Program was developed for raising thinking abilities of primary and secondary school students. It has been implemented in more than 300 schools, and more than 200,000 students took part in the experiment over a 10"year span. Several longitudinal intervention studies showed that LTT could promote the development of students' thinking ability, learning motivation, and learning strategy as well as raise academic performance in primary schools. This article describes a study of the influence and the delayed effects of LTT on the scientific creativity of secondary school students. One hundred and seven students were selected from a secondary school, 54 of them participated in the LTT every 2 weeks and the rest had not. The intervention lasted 2 years, and the delayed effect was explored half a year after terminating the intervention. The Scientific Creativity Test for Secondary School Students was used four times from pre-test to delayed post-test. The results indicated that the LTT did promote the development of scientific creativity of secondary school students, and the effects on the scientific creativity were not necessarily immediate, but tended to be long-lasting. (Contains 7 tables and 7 figures.)
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Intervention, Secondary School Students, Learning Strategies, Creativity, Creativity Tests, Thinking Skills, Program Implementation, Sciences, Academic Achievement, Teaching Methods, Pretests Posttests, Program Effectiveness, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Foreign Countries, Science Activities, Science Instruction
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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