Enhancing Creative Capacity: How Engineering Students Learn Creativity

这个工程教育研究项目将考察个人创造力的增强，并确定工科学生如何变得更有创造力。科目将包括一年级和四年级的学生以及参加创意课程的其他学生。将使用各种定性和定量方法，包括第三方工具和研究小组开发的方法。本研究提出了一种基于战略和迭代的创造、展示、反馈和反思的创造力提升理论。培育创造，培育创造力。在实践中应用一套策略可以培养创造能力，而螺旋回到熟悉的认知领域的任务则会促进自信和创造性认同的发展。从研究中获得的对创造力提高的理解将对教学过程，特别是教学设计和教学方法提供指导。研究结果还将为大量学生的创造力的教与学提供一个框架，并为决策提供数据，以帮助决定创造力的发展是否应该在工程课程中获得更确定的地位。

This Engineering Education Research project will examine the enhancement of personal creativity and determine how engineering students become more creative. Subjects will include first-year and fourth-year students and other students enrolled in classes on creativity. A variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, including both third-party instruments and methods developed by the research team, will be used. The study proposes a theory of creativity enhancement based upon strategic and iterative creating, presentation, feedback and reflection ? nurturing creation to foster creativity. Applying a set of strategies in practice develops creative competence, while tasks that spiral back to familiar cognitive terrain promotes confidence and development of creative identity. The understanding gained from the research about creativity enhancement will inform the teaching and learning process, particularly instructional design and methodology. The results will also provide a framework for the teaching and learning of creativity for large numbers of students and provide data to assist in decision making regarding whether development of creativity should earn a more established position in the engineering curriculum.