INNOVATION & CREATIVITY IN HUMAN SCIENCE
Year:2015 | Volume:4 | Issue:3|Papers Count:7

Purpose: This study endeavored to find out if employing different types of mobile games (m-game) can foster collective creativity and improve L2 English classroom success in the blended module of vocabulary learning.Method: To these ends, some180 boy and girl second-year high school students in Isfahan were selected. After conducting Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT), they participated in 16 blended sessions to learn new L2 vocabulary items. In each session, at first, they were taught new materials (i.e., L2 English vocabulary items) in the face-to-face mode and then they practiced the contents in dyads through the medium of paper-and-pencil. Through the application of Latin Square (LS), on the same day they were required to practice the materials in four virtual playgrounds individually or collectively, depending on the type of playground, namely, ready-made vs. native. The triangulation design in this study was grounded in questionnaire, learners’ performance in classroom and non-classroom settings; that is, archival data gathered through the formative and summative assessment of their performance.Results: The results revealed that though some creative solutions can be seen as a product of individual manner of gaming, others should be regarded as the products of the collective manner of playing the didactic games.Conclusion: The collective creativity indicated a shift in the quality of learners’ performance as well as its precipitating role in the blended module of L2 pedagogy comprised of mobile games (m-games). Implications of the study can pave the way for understanding the social settings and developing interaction among learners in favor of collective creativity.

Background: Creativity is one of the most important factors that are related to academic performance. Creativity means unifying all efforts of a human.Aim: The aim of present research was to show the mediating role of achievement motivation in the relationship between emotional creativity, self-efficiency and academic performance of high school female students.Method: A sample comprising of some 350 high school students (age 16-19) were selected using a multistage cluster sampling method. Instruments were included Emotional Creativity Inventory (ECI), Sheerer Self efficacy Inventory, as well as, Hermens Achievement Motivation Questionnaire. The data were analyzed by Path Analysis and Pierson correlation.Results: Results showed positive and significant relation between achievement motivation and academic performance. Positive relation was also evident between self-efficiency and intermediation of achievement motivation and academic performance directly and indirectly. In addition, there is positive relation between emotional creativity and achievement motivation; but its direct and indirect effect on academic performance was not significant.Conclusions: Overall, these results suggested 43% variance of motivation is represented by variations of self-efficiency and emotional creativity and 10% variation of academic performance has been represented by variations of self-efficiency and achievement motivation.

Background: Meeting the twenty-first century challenges with its environmental, social and economic pressures, has a complex requires creative, innovative, energetic, adaptable, motivated youth with having confidence and skills as to develop purposefully their critical thinking and creativity.Purpose: This article explains the efficacy of a combination of critical thinking and creative thinking, self-directed learning on high-school girls in Qom.Method: The study was a pilot pretest - posttest control group with a sample group of some 105 people chosen in a cluster random sample group in terms of age, gender, baseline, career score of scholastic aptitude cloning were carried out after conducting the pretest questionnaire with self-directed learning Fischer and colleagues (2001) randomly divided into control and experimental groups of 25 subjects, respectively. Data obtained from scoring the analysis of covariance (Ancova) and multivariate analysis of covariance (Mancova) were analyzed.Results: Data analysis showed that teaching critical thinking and creative combination of self-directed learning and all its components (willingness to learn, self-management and self-control) has a significant impact.Conclusion: With the integration of critical thinking and creative thinking, willingness to learn, self-control and self-management students increased, thus motivating the use of learning strategies, the spirit of self-reliance and achievement of students over a semester.

Purpose: the purpose of this study was the investigation of the relationships between transformational leadership style, organizational structure and organizational climate with employee creativity considering the mediating role of creative self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation in an industrial organization. The participants in this study were some 300 employees of National Iranian South Oil Company who were selected by stratified random sampling method. The instruments which were used in this study were Transformational Leadership Scale (GTL), Creative Climate Questionnaire (CCQ), Creative Self-efficacy Scale (CSE), Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI) and Employee Creativity Questionnaire (ECQ). Fitness of the proposed model was examined through structural equation model (SEM), using SPSS-21 and AMOS-21 software packages.Findings: The results showed that direct paths from transformational leadership to employee creativity, organizational climate to employee creativity and organizational structure to employee creativity were non-significant. The indirect relationships were tested by using bootstrapping procedure in Preacher and Hayes Macro command. The model fitted the data properly and all indirect effects were significant.

Background: Creative mathematical activities as the sophisticated activities need rich knowledge and skills and personality characteristics. In order to identify these mathematical knowledge and skills and personality characteristics, it is necessary for mathematics educator to do research which leads to formulating fundamental theories through considering society’s contextual features. One of the necessary steps in this regard is doing qualitative research.Objectives: This study tried to identify the mathematical knowledge and skills and personality characteristics which are involved in creative mathematical activities and that how they influence on these activities.Methods: To do so, qualitative research based on grounded theory is served for data collection and analysis. The instrument for data collection in the present study is introspective semi- structured interviews. In this study MAXQDA9 software is used for data analysis. The population is all students who are majoring in mathematics in one of the universities in Tehran. For the semi-structured introspective interviews, some 13 mathematics students were asked to participate in the study based on purposive sampling. The data was analyzed by coding process in the two stages of free and axial coding. To ensure that the research is qualified, the credibility, dependability, transferability and conformability criteria were used.Results: The results reveal, there are several sub-categories for both of these mathematical knowledge and skills and personality characteristics categories that explain how they influence on the creative solutions of the mathematics problems.Conclusion: Hoping that educational systems and education professionals explain the teaching-learning process more accurately based on scientific findings and provides an environment which the learners face challenging situations and problems and provide the context for the advancement of creativity, while struggling for solving these problems. The results could help the educators to provide appreciate educational environments which can develop mathematical creativity.

Background: Managers have a crucial role on qualitative and quantitative improvement of their outputs, that is, the students. Every organization’s creativity is dependent on the creativity of its managers. Different factors influence managers’ creativity. According to Sternberg, intelligence, personality and thinking styles effect creativity.Purpose: This research attempted to investigate the relationship between high school principals’ thinking styles and creativity in the city of Khorramabad.Method: The research design is of the correlation characteristic of descriptive researches. The research population included all 145 high school principals in Khorramabad (67 females and 78 males). To determine the sample size the Cochran formula was used. Therefore, 107 principals (48 females and 59 males) were selected as the sample using a relative cluster sampling. To collect data, Sternberg-Wagner’s thinking styles questionnaire and Ran sip’s creativity questionnaire were administered. The content validity was used to determine the validity of the measures and Cranach alpha was used to measure the validity of the questionnaires. The Cranach alpha values for the thinking style questionnaire and creativity questionnaire were 0.90 and 0.92, respectively.Result(s): Results showed that legislative and judicial thinking styles were positively correlated to the principal’s creativity, while the relative between the executive thinking style and principals’ creativity was not significantly meaningful. Of the thinking styles, the judicial style is a suitable predictor of the principals’ creativity.Conclusion: According to the findings, can be concluded that the thinking style, fundamentally role in innovation and depending on the situation, one of these styles, the best results will be achieved.

Background: The creativity and innovation in terms of individual dimension can be explained on the basis of latent constructs of the individuals.Purpose: The purpose of current study was to present a structural model of scientific innovation for members of Young Scholars Club at Islamic Azad University as well as personal factors influencing scientific creativity of these individuals.Method: In order to achieve the research objectives, research hypotheses were tested through path analysis and testing of the original model and the modified model.Result(s): The results of experimental data analysis showed that the experimental data did not have a good fit with the original conceptual model of the research and the direct effect of most said structure on scientific creativity of samples is not significant. Changes and modifications of several models, eventually led to the final research model.Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that balanced model of variables, sagacity, problem solving and seeking success are the most important psychological individual that effect directly on the scientific innovations and creativity of young researchers club members and elite.