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Nurturing Creative Problem Solving In Social Sciences In Middle School Students, Michele Gaglione Jan 2021

Nurturing Creative Problem Solving In Social Sciences In Middle School Students, Michele Gaglione

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The purpose of this non-experimental research study was three-fold: (1) to investigate the relationships among the attributes of creative problem solving ability (divergent thinking, convergent thinking, motivation, general knowledge and skills, and environment) and their relationships in the humanities (specifically those that took enrichment classes in that area), (2) to explore if there were group differences in Creative Problem Solving (CPS) attributes between students that had a high or low perception of class activities as measured by the My Class Activities (MCA) survey, and (3) to explore whether specific components of learning environment were impacted by certain enrichment classes. The …