Critical creativity criteria for students in higher education: Taking the interrelationship effect among dimensions into account

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1057-1075

  Chen, Jui Kuei ^a   Chen, I Shuo ^b  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Analytic network process; Creativity; Decision making trial and evaluation laboratory; Interrelationship effect; Multiple criteria decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859337674     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-011-9448-7     Document Type: Article

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