Factors influencing group creativity in project-organized teams in engineering education in china

• Autores: Chun-Fang Zhou, Ling-Ling Luo, Xiangyun Du, Anette Kolmos
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 26, no. 6, 2010, págs. 1524-1535
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In China, project-organized learning is regarded as a strategy to foster creative engineers. This study explores the link between project-organized learning and group creativity. We regard group creativity as a socio-cultural concept, influenced by factors from a social andcultural context. Relating this point to project-organized learning in engineering education in China, this paper focuses on which factorsinfluence group creativity development in project-organized teams. Multiple methods including questionnaire and interview wereemployed. A CCQ (Creative Climate Questionnaire) survey was conducted among 126 members from 25 teams at seven universities.Interviews were carried out with eight team leaders. Research findings show that a series of factors such as task challenge, groupdiversity, conflict, group size and membership change etc. influence group creativity interactively; however, risk taking is notencouraged in these teams, which could be the potential barrier to creativity. Therefore this paper has contributions to implications forengineering education innovation.