Short-term creativity interventions can be effective in changing creativity positively¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r1 · q1
Currency · newest study 2013 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
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q1 i? The authors interpret their three-week CREACT study as evidence that short term interventions can positively change creativity, against the assertion that creativity changes occur only over long periods. → Akar 2013

Evidence¶

Akar 2013¶

Akar, İ., & Şengil-Akar, Ş. (2013). The effectiveness of the Creative Reversal Act (CREACT) on students' creative thinking: Further evidence from Turkey. TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, 12(4). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1272859

q1 · i? · causal · r1

Authors' interpretation in the discussion section, contrasting their three-week intervention with the view (Runco & Pezdek, 1984) that creativity changes occur over long periods. This is an author interpretation rather than a directly tested comparison.

"This experimental research study was one similar to those short term interventions and supported the idea of short term interventions can also be effective in changing creativity positively"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

Creativity — outcome: instruction changes it

Twenty-three 5th graders' creativity scores rise after nine CREACT drawing-arts lessons in a one-group pretest-posttest study without a control group (effect size .71) — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
Prior research found CREACT significantly improved creative performance on poem and story tasks but had a low effect on a paradox task — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
Gains from an intensive period of second-language study persist for weeks without rehearsal. — a broader claim this one bears on
A 4-week social media training workshop improved inhibitory control within the intervention group of older adults, with a large effect over the full study period — related
Professional learning experiences shift teachers' beliefs away from traditional views toward practice-based science and increase implementation confidence, with gains leveling off after initial workshops — related
University students' self-efficacy showed no significant change during a unit of short-term prompting in learning journals — related

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