Cross-cultural studies show Eastern children can outperform Western ones on creativity measures, and children with little schooling can show high divergent thinking¶
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q2 i? Chinese children in Hong Kong outscored French children on a battery of verbal and figural psychometric measures of convergent and divergent thinking. → Bruce S. Rawlings & Sarah J. Cutting 2024
q2 i? Homeless Bolivian children with less schooling scored higher on psychometric divergent thinking fluency and flexibility than matched children with more school exposure. → Bruce S. Rawlings & Sarah J. Cutting 2024 (2)
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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
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The review reports that "Chinese children in Hong Kong outscored French children on a battery of verbal and figural psychometric measures", potentially reflecting Hong Kong curriculum reform focusing on creative skills, challenging the Western-superiority perception.
"Chinese children in Hong Kong outscored French children on a battery of verbal and figural psychometric measures of convergent and divergent thinking (Cheung et al., 2016)."
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
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The review reports that in Bolivia, "homeless children with less schooling scored higher on psychometric divergent thinking fluency and flexibility" than socio-economically matched children with more school exposure, possibly due to street-trade problem-solving.
"The homeless children with less schooling scored higher on psychometric divergent thinking fluency and flexibility than the children with more exposure to school (Dahlman et al., 2013)."
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Related Claims¶
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Cross-cultural studies show Eastern children can outperform Western ones on creativity measures, and children with little schooling can show high divergent thinking |
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Cross-cultural studies show Eastern children can outperform Western ones on creativity measures, and children with little schooling can show high divergent thinking |
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