THE CREATIVITY AND RESILIENCE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (CRDP) TO INVESTIGATE LEARNING PRACTICE IN THE USE OF ICT

Much research has demonstrated that students' cognitive characteristics as general mental ability or prior level of achievement do explain a substantial proportion of the variance in subsequent achievement, but only more recently has research focused on relationships between cognitive characteristics of students and the process variables of classroom behaviour. In conceptualizations of teaching-learning situations, cognitive characteristics of students are seen as one cluster of determinants of the interactive and learning processes established in the classroom. The researchers suggest that flexibility is central to creative adaptation. The centrality of flexibility to creative adaptation a…