Intelligence,general knowledge and personality as predictors of creativity

This study sought to examine the contribution of fluid intelligence, general knowledge and Big Five personality traits in predicting four indices of creativity: Divergent Thinking (DT) fluency, Rated DT, Creative Achievement and Self-Rated creativity and a combined Total Creativity variable. When creativity was assessed by DT test, the consistent predictor was fluid intelligence. When creativity was assessed in terms of achievement or self-rating, personality variables were consistently predictive.     

小学生自主学习能力培养之尝试

培养小学生自主学习能力是社会发展的需要。小学生学习过程是个体各方面素质动态发展的启蒙过程，更是培养自主学习能力的训练过程。     

Communication,education, and creativity

Communication, education, and creativity are conceptually related through a general systems approach. Each phenomenon is viewed as a transactional process. Implications are drawn for facilitating the development of more creative student behaviors in the education system.     

Intelligence,achievement, and visual-motor performance among learning disabled and emotionally impaired children

This study investigated the performance of Learning Disabled (LD) and Emotionally Impaired (EI) children on intelligence, achievement, and visual-motor tests. An attempt was made to find patterns of performance and/or specific variables that would aid in identification and differentiation of these two groups. Eighty elementary school children were selected on the basis of their placement within either a learning disability or emotionally impaired classroom, according to the specifications of Michigan Mandatory Special Education Guidelines. The LD group consisted of 38 subjects and the EI group of 42. All of the children were tested on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R), Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT), and the Minnesota-Percepto-Diagnostic Test (MPD). In addition, age and sex were investigated. The data were analyzed by discriminant function analysis and stepwise multiple regression analysis. A cutoff score was established that significantly separated the LD and EI children. It was also established which of the test scoring variables used were the best predictors.     

基于课程群构建电子商务“三创”实验教学体系

电子商务专业的许多课程都具有很强的操作性和实践性。针对目前企业的电子商务业务需求和电子商务课程实验教学的特点,以"创意、创新、创业"能力培养为核心,提出了电子商务课程群的建设框架,并给出了各课程群宜开设的主要实验教学项目及部分综合性实验的主要内容和操作规范要求。     

Social learning and social abilities of first-grade elementary pupils in Greece: the importance of informal models of evaluation

The aim of this research is to examine how social learning is connected to the acquisition of knowledge and abilities. One hundred and nineteen ‘A’ grade students (60 boys and 59 girls) attending public primary school participated. The collection of data was carried out according to: (1) the ‘Athina’ Test (AT) and (2) teachers' evaluation. The students were divided into four groups according to the level of their social learning. A comparison between all the results of the AT evaluation and the teachers' evaluation is made. The results demonstrate a correlation between social learning and academic achievements.     

大学生幸福智力与传统智力、情绪智力的关系

采用<幸福智力量表>、<瑞文标准推理测验>、<情绪智力问卷>等对1 172名大学生进行施测,考察幸福智力与瑞文传统智力、情绪智力的关系.结果发现:(1)幸福智力与情绪智力有适度相关,但与瑞文传统智力相关基本不显著;(2)情绪智力的控制情绪因素在对幸福智力的回归方程中均作出了最大的解释率贡献,具体表现为:对感知和体验幸福...     

Pedagogy,philosophy, and the question of creativity

This paper investigates the prominence of rationalism in the major Western pedagogical theories of Plato, Rousseau, and Dewey, all of whom conceptualize formal teaching, as the inculcation of rationality in individual learners. After each of their theories has been described, the argument turns against the tradition of pedagogical rationalism to question what happens in the education of artists, quasi-artists, and creative designers. The answer given is that imagination must be paramount and strongly encouraged in the education of such students, despite the problematic fact that imagination – seeing the truth – cannot be taught the way that rationality can, relying instead on the analysis of successful works of art and design as exemplary and allowing students to freely pursue their own individual inspirations.     

Social,environmental, and developmental issues and creativity

Parents and teachers alike have been led to believe that the motivation that stems from wanting to earn a good grade or receive a gold star or do better than the person sitting at the next desk is a positive force. However, in the case of open-ended, creative tasks—tasks for which there is more than one possible solution—extrinsic constraints have frequently proven harmful. A social-psychological approach to the study of creativity is especially useful for answering the question of how best to foster creative behavior in the classroom. Rather than focus on the (largely innate or at least immalleable) differences between creative and uncreative persons, social psychologists concentrate on creative situations (i.e., the particular social and environmental conditions that can positively or negatively impact the creativity of most individuals). The present article explored this research tradition and proposed a theoretical explanation for the impact of motivation on creativity that is based upon children's conceptions of work and play.     

Sex and personality differences in French and German performance in British secondary school pupils

An experiment was performed to investigate the relationship between sex, personality and learning style and French and German performance in secondary school pupils. 432 13–14 year old children (216 boys and 216 girls) whose mother tongue was English were given the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory and Raven's Standard Matrices. Half of the subjects were then given three performance tests (comprehension, essay and prose translation), and the rest received three parallel German tests. The main findings were that, although pupils studied each language for the same time, German was easier than French, girls did better than boys, and that language performance increased with extraversion. The results were discussed in terms of their practical implications.