Creativity Fostering Teacher Behavior

Measurement and Research

This book deals with teachers' behaviors that promote the creativity of students. It includes a rating scale for measuring a teacher's creativity fostering behavior — a scale known as the CFTIndex — and a series of conceptualization and research papers, including a lead article by Professor Authur Cropley, whose original ideas served as the basis of the CFTIndex. The other papers in this volume are by international authors who have used the scale in their research and who can now share their experiences using it in this volume.

There is a dearth of measuring instruments that cover teacher behaviors where creativity is concerned, but the CFTIndex fills this vacuum, as evidenced by the many articles using this index in the international arena of creativity research.

Contents:

• Prologue
• About the Editor
• The Creativity-Facilitating Teacher Index: Early Thinking, and Some Recent Reflections (Arthur Cropley)
• Creativity Fostering Teacher Behavior Index (CFTIndex): Its Design, Validation, Replications, and Further Research (Kay Cheng Soh)
• Teachers' Thinking Styles and Creativity Fostering Behaviors (Kay Cheng Soh)
• Fostering Student Creativity: Which Teacher Behaviors are Helpful? (Kay Cheng Soh and Khiok Seng Quek)
• Creativity Fostering Teacher Behavior Scale Around the World: An Annotated Bibliography (Kay Cheng Soh)
• Creativity Fostering Teacher Index and the Outcome of a Drama-enriched Curriculum in Creativity in Education (Anna N N Hui, Raysen W L Cheung and Man Yee Ho)
• Creativity Fostering Teacher Behavior in Turkey: Adapting and Using the CFTIndex (Ayhan Dikici)
• The Promotion of Student Creativity: Physical Educators' Perceived and Actual Creativity Fostering Behaviors (Elisaver Konstantinidou)
• Development of an Instrument for Assessing the Creativity Stimulation of Mathematics Teachers (Mariani Azhari and Ismail Zaleha)
• Creativity Fostering in Chemistry Teachers: An Example from Turkey (Özge Özyalcin Oskay)
• Ecological Approach to Fostering Student Creativity (Kay Cheng Soh)
• Epilogue

Readership: Graduate and research students of education and pedagogy, education policy makers, trainee teachers.
Key Features:

• There is a need for an instrument like the CFTIndex which measures teacher behaviors related to creativity fostering in the classroom
• The CFTIndex has been adapted through translation into several languages by international researchers
• The CFTIndex has been used as the main instrument for a number of PhD theses in different countries