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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Educational Psychology
  • STEM Education

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  • Creativity and collaboration are vital for STEM education and career success.
  • The Remote Association Task (RAT) is a key measure of creative problem-solving ability.
  • Previous research has not systematically compared collaborative versus individual RAT performance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of collaboration on creative problem-solving using the RAT.
  • To determine if collaborative work influences subsequent individual performance on the RAT.

Main Methods:

  • Data collected between 2022-2023.
  • Participants solved 20 RAT problems either collaboratively or individually (Experiments 1 & 2).
  • Experiment 2 included a follow-up individual test with familiar and novel RAT problems.

Main Results:

  • Collaboration offered no advantage during the initial collaborative problem-solving phase.
  • Participants who initially worked collaboratively showed improved performance on the later individual test.
  • This improvement was observed for both familiar and novel RAT problems.

Conclusions:

  • Collaboration may not enhance immediate creative output but can foster skills beneficial for future individual problem-solving.
  • Findings have implications for designing educational strategies that leverage collaboration to develop essential STEM skills.
  • Optimizing collaborative learning environments is crucial for enhancing student success in STEM fields.