Cultivating the ability of creative problem-solving helps students solve complex problems in this rapidly changing society. Mindful learning which emphasizes awareness and attention to the present experiences of learning may facilitate the ability of creative problem-solving. This study, therefore, designed a mindful-learning intervention and investigated its impact on the enhancement of creative problem-solving ability. Ninety-four college students were recruited and randomly assigned to an experimental or a control group. The experimental group received a 15-minute mindful-learning intervention through a learning interface and instructions from researchers, whereas the control group conducted rearranging scrambled sentence tasks through a learning interface. The Inventory of Creative Problem-solving Ability (ICPA) which includes four processes of creative problem-solving was employed to measure participants’ creative problem-solving ability. Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance demonstrated that the intervention effectively improved the experimental group’s creative problem-solving ability, whereas the control group did not show such improvement. The findings of this study suggest that increasing attentional focus and awareness of the environment facilitates cognitive flexibility and the production of creative ideas for problem-solving. Additionally, the results suggest that combing face-to-face instruction and online intervention can be an efficient and effective way for mindful-learning intervention. To conclude, the findings of this study provide important implications for educators and further research.

Authors:
Chih Min Wang, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Yu-Chu Yeh, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Yu-Shan Ting, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Sheng-Ling Chang, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

About the Presenter(s)
Yu-chu Yeh is the Distinguished Professor for the Institute of Teacher Education. Her research interests include creative thinking, e-learning, educational psychology, cognitive psychology, and positive psychology.

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