Students’ Assessment of Teaching Practices for Creativity in Graduate Programs

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Creativity, Teaching, Graduate Level, Scale

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate how master and doctoral students’ assess the extension to which graduate education professors favor the development of creativity in the classroom. The participants were 371 students from public and private universities. It was used the Inventory of Teaching Practices for Creativity in Higher Education, originally prepared for undergraduate students and adapted to the graduate context. The study also aimed to obtain evidence of internal validity of this instrument. The Inventory was valid to measure a dimensionality of three factors: General, Encouragement of New Ideas, and Interest in Student Learning. The third factor did not present an appropriate level of reliability. The results indicated a positive evaluation of graduate students with respect to their professors, as well as significant differences regarding the students’ evaluation considering type of institution and whether student works or not.

Keywords: creativity, teaching, graduate level, scale.

Author Biographies

Denise de Souza Fleith, Universidade de Brasília

Denise de Souza Fleith é psicóloga, Ph.D. em Psicologia Educacional, professora titular do Departamento de Psicologia Escolar e do Desenvolvimento da Universidade de Brasília e bolsista de produtividade do CNPq.

Cristiano Mauro de Assis Gomes, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Cristiano Mauro Assis Gomes é psicólogo, doutor em Educação, professor associado do Departamento de Psicologia da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais e bolsista de produtividade do CNPq.

Published

2019-07-16

How to Cite

Fleith, D. de S., & Gomes, C. M. de A. (2019). Students’ Assessment of Teaching Practices for Creativity in Graduate Programs. Avaliação Psicológica, 18(3). Retrieved from https://submission-pepsic.scielo.br/index.php/avp/article/view/15579

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Relato de Pesquisa

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