Sviluppo delle capacità di problem solving nella scuola secondaria di primo grado e apprendimento logico-linguistico e logico-matematico. Adattamento e validazione in Italia “della versione breve” del Test della “Personalità Creativa” (TCD-As)

The paper deepens how students’ ability
to solve problematic situations could be
developed (Wiggins, 1998; Lumbelli, 2009;
Biasi, 2010; Boonen et al., 2013) in relation
to the logical-linguistic and logical-mathematical
areas through the enhancement
of their creative dimension. According to
the research designing chosen, many
classes of middle secondary schools were
involved in the administration of semistructured
tests based on “Reality Tasks”
(Moretti & Giuliani, 2016) and of the Test
of “Creative Personality” (TCD-A;
Williams, 1994). The scale construction of
the TCD-A was verify through Exploratory
Factor Analysis. Results suggest that in designing
teachers’ professional development
projects should be focused issues
like the relationships between the learning
outcomes and the creative dimensions.
Data analysis also shows that the
teachers awareness of these relations
could encourage the development of
problem solving skills by students.