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A Comparative study British and Thai undergraduates in Torrance Test of Creative Thinking Fisik Sean Buakanok, Faculty of Education, Thailand

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A Comparative study British and Thai undergraduates in

Torrance Test of Creative Thinking

Fisik Sean Buakanok, Faculty of Education ,

Thailand

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IntroductionChild's creativity can be either strongly encouraged or discouraged by early experiences at home and in school

(Einon D 2002).

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emotionally

socially

physically

mentally

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Research Question

Asian teenager who have strict culture to obey the elders would be creative thinking lower than the western teenagers who high flexibility or not?

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A Comparative study British and Thai undergraduates

in Torrance Test of Creative Thinking

Einon D, (2002).

Runco, Mark A.& Robert S. Albert, (2004 ).

S.R. Smith & L. Handler, (2007).

Taylor & Francis, (2004).

Asian

Western

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EAST

WEST

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Procedure of Study

Fluency

Elaboration Flexibility

Originality

Torrance(1974)

TestTestThe Torrance Test of Creative Thinking

Research Instruments.

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Sample of the study

25 students,

Faculty of Computer science,

University of Hertfordshire, UK.

25 students, Faculty of Computer science, Rajamangala University, Thailand

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Research Instruments

The Torrance Test of Creative Thinking-Figural. (TTCT-Figural), the TTCT Verbal-Figural is formally titled “Thinking Creatively with Pictures” It consists of three activities; Picture Construction, Picture Completion, and Repeated Figures of Lines or Circles. Ten minutes are required to complete each activity.

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Results

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Fluency Flexibility Originality Elaboration

Asian

Western

The creativity results compared between Asia and Western showed that the Western’s mean scores of Fluency, Flexibility, Originality, and Elaboration were higher than Asia’s mean scores at the statistic significant of level .05.

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conclusion

The findings of this research tend to shown a difference on the fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration. Thus, it can be concluded that the learning environment between Asia and western can be the main aspects of creative thinking. This section will discuss which effective on the two places above, considering the present approaches and the results of the studies.

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Discussion

Western AsianWestern Thai

confront a problem

ElaborationFluency Matt Armstrong, 2008

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Discussion

Western

Queue when waiting

Elaboration

Thai

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Discussion

Western

How to Express Anger

Originality

Thai

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Discussion

Western

punctuality

Elaboration

Thai

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Discussion

Western

Sense of self

OriginalityFluency

Thai

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Discussion

Western

Status of Leader

Flexibility

Thai

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Discussion

Western

Weekend Activities

OriginalityFlexibility

Matt Armstrong, 2008

OriginalityFlexibility

Thai

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