Resumen de Concepciones del alumnado de secundaria sobre creatividad y dificultad implicadas en problemas insight: dos estudios exploratorios
Hanane Yousfi, Carlos B. Gómez Ferragud, Vicente Sanjosé
The objective of the present work was to explain the conceptions of secondary school students about creativity and the perceived difficulty in solving problems. Two exploratory empirical studies were carried out with insight problems considered creative in international literature. A total of 205 Spanish students from 8th and 10th grade participated. In study 1, the perception of difficulty and creativity of the students before solving the problems was analysed, as well as their correlations. In Study 2, the same measures and correlations were calculated before and after solving a selection of problems, then compared and related to the quality of the solutions. In addition, individual interviews were conducted to clarify students’ conceptions of problem creativity. The results suggest that Secondary students associate the creativity of the problems with the lack of familiarity or novelty with them and, to a lesser extent, with the perceived difficulty in solving them. The changes in the assessment of creativity after solving the problems were not influenced by either the quality of the resolutions or the perceived difficulty. Some participants made explicit the need to restructure and change the initial mental representation of the problems in order to solve them.
