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Assessing General Creativity and Creative Engineering Design in First Year Engineering Students
Author(s) -
Charyton Christine,
Merrill John A.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.896
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 2168-9830
pISSN - 1069-4730
DOI - 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2009.tb01013.x
Subject(s) - creativity , engineering education , consistency (knowledge bases) , engineering design process , reliability (semiconductor) , psychology , engineering , test (biology) , domain (mathematical analysis) , computer science , engineering management , social psychology , mechanical engineering , mathematics , artificial intelligence , paleontology , power (physics) , mathematical analysis , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
Creativity is a vital tool for innovation in engineering. Psychology and engineering faculty developed the Creative Engineering Design Assessment (CEDA) because existing tools are limited. This measure was administered with general creativity measures in 63 engineering (57 males, six females) and 21 non‐engineering (six males, 15 females) students in five week intervals. Inter‐rater reliability showed high consistency overall and between the test and retest administrations. Only engineering males and females significantly differed on the retest. Engineering students with low, medium, and high creative engineering design did not statistically differ in their general creativity, not domain specific to engineering; however, only high scorers were significantly higher on the retest from the other groups. Future research is needed with larger samples.