This study was designed to address the impacts of science performance,science self-concept,and creative tendency on the creative science problem-finding(CSPF)ability of a sample of Chinese middle-school students.Struc...This study was designed to address the impacts of science performance,science self-concept,and creative tendency on the creative science problem-finding(CSPF)ability of a sample of Chinese middle-school students.Structural equation modeling was used to indicate that CSPF could be directly predicted by creative tendency and academic performance,and indirectly predicted by science self-concept.The findings strongly support the idea that curiosity,imagination,and domain-specific knowledge are important for CSPF,and science self-concept could be mediated by knowledge that affects CSPF.展开更多
基金supported by grants from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(20100470595)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31100754).
文摘This study was designed to address the impacts of science performance,science self-concept,and creative tendency on the creative science problem-finding(CSPF)ability of a sample of Chinese middle-school students.Structural equation modeling was used to indicate that CSPF could be directly predicted by creative tendency and academic performance,and indirectly predicted by science self-concept.The findings strongly support the idea that curiosity,imagination,and domain-specific knowledge are important for CSPF,and science self-concept could be mediated by knowledge that affects CSPF.
