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  • Educational Technology
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Learning Sciences

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  • Creativity is crucial for navigating complex global challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Developing tools to assess and enhance creativity is essential for cultivating a more innovative population.
  • Technological advancements enable the creation of sophisticated creativity support systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the effectiveness of a novel creativity-support system within an educational game context.
  • To determine if integrated inspirational and instructional supports enhance college students' creative output.
  • To measure improvements in creativity using game level design as an objective metric.

Main Methods:

  • A study involving 114 college students randomly assigned to four conditions: Inspirational, Instructional, Both, and No Support.
  • Participants designed game levels in the "Physics Playground" educational game over two hours.
  • Creativity was assessed based on the originality and quality of the designed game levels.

Main Results:

  • The "Both" condition, integrating inspirational and instructional supports, demonstrated significantly greater improvements in student creativity.
  • Inspirational supports included access to example levels and brainstorming tools.
  • Instructional supports involved specific design strategies like SCAMPER.

Conclusions:

  • A combined approach of inspirational and instructional creativity supports is highly effective in enhancing student creativity.
  • The "Physics Playground" system shows potential as a valuable tool for fostering creativity in higher education.
  • Further research is needed to explore limitations and broader applications of such systems.