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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BRAIN DOMINANCE, GENDER, AND IMPROVEMENT IN CREATIVE THINKING SKILLS
| Title: | RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BRAIN DOMINANCE, GENDER, AND IMPROVEMENT IN CREATIVE THINKING SKILLS. |
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| Name(s): |
CIPES, CHARLOTTE E., author Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor Kauffman, Dan, Thesis advisor |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Issuance: | monographic | |
| Date Issued: | 1987 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, FL | |
| Physical Form: | application/pdf | |
| Extent: | 134 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | This study analyzed the relationship between brain dominance, gender, and improvement in creative thinking skills. The creative skills studied were fluency, originality, abstractness of titles, elaboration, resistance to closure and the creativity index. In addition to investigating the possible relationships between brain dominance, gender, and improvement in creative thinking skills, the question of whether or not improvement occurred was also examined. Brain dominance was determined by a self-report instrument. This instrument was based upon brain dominance research. The subjects were 63 high school students in grades 9 through 12. These subjects were enrolled in three separate classes. The subjects' ages ranged from 14 to 19 years of age. Subjects were administered the Human Information Processing Survey, a self-report learning style instrument, and the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking, a test of creative thinking skills. The scores on the Human Information Processing Survey were used to determine the subjects' brain dominance. The Torrance Test of Creative Thinking was used in a pretest and posttest design as a measure of improvement of the creative thinking skills. The results of this study indicated a significant improvement for selective creative thinking skills following a four week series of special activities. Significant relationships with brain dominance and gender were found between specific creative thinking skills. | |
| Identifier: | 11910 (digitool), FADT11910 (IID), fau:8831 (fedora) | |
| Degree granted: | Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1987. | |
| Collection: | FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection | |
| Note(s): | College of Education | |
| Subject(s): |
Creative thinking Brain |
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| Held by: | Florida Atlantic University Libraries | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11910 | |
| Sublocation: | Digital Library | |
| Use and Reproduction: | Copyright © is held by the author with permission granted to Florida Atlantic University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder. | |
| Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| Host Institution: | FAU | |
| Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |
