Classroom activities and targeted interventions—peer collaboration, mind mapping, storytelling, and perspective-taking—improve children's divergent thinking¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r? · q2
Currency · newest study 2024 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Spanish 9–10-year-olds given reading and writing tasks in classroom cooperation over 2 months improved divergent thinking, while those given the same tasks in a non-cooperative context did not improve. → Bruce S. Rawlings & Sarah J. Cutting 2024 q2 i? A large-scale review identified pedagogical features enhancing children's creativity spanning the physical environment, pedagogical and psychosocial factors, and external partnerships. → Bruce S. Rawlings & Sarah J. Cutting 2024 (2)

Evidence¶

Bruce S. Rawlings & Sarah J. Cutting 2024¶

Bruce S. Rawlings & Sarah J. Cutting. (2024). Linking Disparate Strands: A Critical Review of the Relationship Between Creativity and Education. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09973-z

q2 · i? · causal · r?

The review reports a classroom study in which "reading and writing tasks in the context of classroom cooperation over 2 months" improved psychometrically measured divergent thinking, while a non-cooperative standard-curricula context did not.

"Spanish 9–10-year-olds who were given reading and writing tasks in the context of classroom cooperation over 2 months showed an improvement in divergent thinking, as measured by psychometric testing."

Bruce S. Rawlings & Sarah J. Cutting 2024 (2)¶

Bruce S. Rawlings & Sarah J. Cutting. (2024). Linking Disparate Strands: A Critical Review of the Relationship Between Creativity and Education. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09973-z

q2 · i? · review · r3

The review cites a large-scale review identifying pedagogical features that "appear to enhance children's creativity", including flexible use of spacious indoor and outdoor areas, novel engaging tasks, play-based approaches, and partnerships with museums and galleries.

"In a large-scale review, Davies and colleagues identified several pedagogical features that appear to enhance children's creativity, encompassing those related to the physical environment, pedagogical and psychosocial factors and external partnerships (Davies et al., 2013)."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Creativity — outcome: instruction changes it

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