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The effectiveness of a creativity course on developing Chinese design students' creative thinking.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The effectiveness of a creativity course on developing Chinese design students' creative thinking.
Author:	Zhu, Hua.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015
Description:	121 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-01(E), Section: A.
Notes:	Adviser: Heidi J. Stevenson.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-01A(E).
Subject:	Curriculum development.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3720939
ISBN:	9781339020877

The effectiveness of a creativity course on developing Chinese design students' creative thinking.
Zhu, Hua.

The effectiveness of a creativity course on developing Chinese design students' creative thinking. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 121 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of the Pacific, 2015.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

The ability to think creatively has been recognized as a skill necessary for design students' personal and professional development and success. Therefore, in recent years, the core educational aim of design education in China shifted emphasis from training students in skills such as drawing and painting, toward encouraging them to be creative and become problem-solvers. Based on a non-equivalent control group, pretest- posttest design, this quasi-experimental study examined the effectiveness of a creativity course in developing creative thinking in Chinese university design students. The researcher developed a ten-week course plan in concordance with Davis' AUTA model (1982) (a model of creativity development based on Awareness, Understanding, Techniques, and Self-Actualization) to improve students' creative thinking.

ISBN: 9781339020877Subjects--Topical Terms:

766069
Curriculum development.

The effectiveness of a creativity course on developing Chinese design students' creative thinking.
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520 $a This research design used a convenience sample of two first-year design classes that comprised a treatment group of 31 students and a control group of 31 students, making a total of 62 participants. The treatment group took the ten-week creativity training course, whereas the control group did not attend the course. ANCOVA was used to analyze the pretest and posttest scores for the Figural Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking.
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