Edward Paul Torrance was known as the "Father of Creativity" for his nearly 60 years of research on creativity. He invented the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, which helped establish creativity as an important aspect of intelligence. Torrance identified four dimensions of creativity: fluency, flexibility, elaboration, and originality. Creative Problem Solving is an intentional process for solving problems and identifying opportunities developed by Alex Osborn in the 1950s. It involves six stages: mess finding, data finding, problem finding, idea finding, solution finding, and acceptance finding.

1. PROBLEM
SOLVING AND
CREATIVITY
Module 18

2. WHO IS
EDWARD PAUL
TORRANCE?

3. EDWARD PAUL
TORRANCE
• Known as the “Father
of Creativity” for his
nearly 60 years of
research that became
the framework for the
field of gifted
education.

4. EDWARD PAUL
TORRANCE
• He was professor
emeritus of educational
psychology
• He invented the
benchmark method for
quantifying creativity.

5. The “Torrance Tests of
Creativity Thinking”
helped shatter the
theory that IQ tests
alone were sufficient
to gauge real
intelligence.

6. ADVANCE ORGANIZER

7. ACTIVITY
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8. ACTIVITY
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should not touch each other.

9. Torrance’s
Creativity
Framework
01

10. Fluency
• Refers to the production of a great number of ideas
or alternate solutions to a problem. It implies
understanding, not just remembering information
that is learned.
Key Words:
Compare, convert, count, define, describe, explain,
identify, label, list, match, name, outline, paraphrase,
predict, summarize.

11. Flexibility
• Refers to the production of ideas that show a variety
of possibilities or realm of thought. It involves the
ability to see things from different points of view, to
use different approaches and strategies.
Key Words:
Change, demonstrate, employ, extrapolate, predict,
interpret.

12. Elaboration
• It is the process of enhancing ideas by
providing more details. Additional detail and
clarity improves in, and understanding of, the
topic.
Key Words:
Appraise, critique, determine, evaluate, grade, judge,
measure, select, test.

13. Originality
• It involves the production of ideas that are unique
or unusual. It involves synthesis or putting
information about a topic back together in a new
way.
Key Words:
Compose, create, design, generate, integrate, modify,
rearrange, reconstruct, reorganize, revise.

14. Creative Problem
Solving (CPS)
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15. CREATIVE PROBLEM
SOLVING
• It is an intentional process for solving and problems
and discussing opportunities.
• It espouses the use of creativity in the 1950’s Alex
Osborn described this process in his book, Applied
Imagination.
• Osborn opened the process in the public domain
which mean anyone can use it.

16. 6 Stages of
CPS

17. • The following, based on Van Gundy
(1988) description, is a very brief
skeleton of a very rich process, showing
it in its ‘6 x 2’ stages’ form:

18. Stage 1: Mess Finding
• Sensitise yourself (scan, search) for
issues (concerns, challenges,
opportunities, etc.) that need to be
tackled.

19. Stage 2: Data Finding
• Gather information about the problem.

20. Stage 3: Problem
Finding
• Convert a fuzzy statement of the
problem into a broad statement
more suitable for idea finding.

21. Stage 4: Idea Finding
• Generate as many idea as possible.

22. Stage 5: Solution
Finding
• Generate and select obvious evaluation
criteria and develop the short-listed ideas
from Idea Finding as much as you can in
the light of these criteria. Then opt for the
best of these improved ideas. ( e.g. using
comparison table)

23. Stage 6: Acceptance
Finding
• Develop a plan of action to implement
the solution you’ve settled on as the
best choice.

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