Abstract
The aim of this study is to enhance students’ creative problem-solving ability using a project-based learning approach. The study was based on a quasi-experimental design and the participants were 69 postgraduate students in the field of education management. There were 35 of the students assigned to the experimental group, and the remaining 34 to the control group. The experiment was conducted over 15 classes for 2 months. A creative problem-solving questionnaire was used as a pre-test and post-test before and after the experiment. The results showed that the students’ creative problem-solving ability had been effectively enhanced by the intervention of project-based learning, especially in terms of identifying problems, finding solutions and evaluating them.
Highlights
Higher education should play a key role in the process by equipping individuals with the critical skills needed to comprehend the complexity of environmental, social and economic problems and the ability to engage independently and cooperatively in finding a solution (Munyai, 2016)
This study was based on a quasi-experimental design with a non-equivalent control group and its aim was to enhance creative problem solving in a postgraduate course of education management
All 69 postgraduate students of education management in both the experimental group (EG) and the control group (CG) were subjected to the Creative Problem-Solving Questionnaire (CPSQ) pre-test and post-test
Summary
Higher education should play a key role in the process by equipping individuals with the critical skills needed to comprehend the complexity of environmental, social and economic problems and the ability to engage independently and cooperatively in finding a solution (Munyai, 2016). All universities should ensure that their graduates are equipped with the key abilities of critical thinking, communication, problem-solving, research, and teamwork skills to enable them to respond to the constantly-changing needs of society as ‘Citizen Scholars’ (Arvanitakis & Hornsby, 2016). It is essential for education management to focus on advancing postgraduates’ problem-solving ability to support the future workforce (Chen et al, 2020)
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