| No |
Purpose |
Description |
| 1 |
Collection of primary data, formation of control and experimental groups |
Psychological testing using the methods “Evaluation of creative personality characteristics” and “Evaluation of divergent thinking” suggested by F. Williams, “Self-assessment scale of innovative personality traits” (Lebedeva & Tatarko, 2009) |
| 2 |
Development of creative thinking skills (flexibility and originality) |
Main part: exercises "Original use" and "Improvement of the subject" |
| 3 |
Deeper understanding of professional activities |
Main part: exercises “What can happen?”, “Professional qualities of an economist” |
| 4 |
Formation of stress tolerance under uncertainty |
Main part: exercises "Incredible situations", "Economic change" |
| 5 |
Development of self-presentation and public speaking skills |
Main part: the exercise "Logo", presentation of biographies |
| 6 |
Development of creative thinking skills (fluency, elaboration, creativity) |
Main part: the exercise "Methods of Action", "Six Hats of Thinking" (Hughes, 2012), "Thoughts about the economy" |
| 7 |
Development of critical thinking, forecasting ability, increasing the value of the future, team interaction skills |
Main part: the exercise “Prognostic Project”, the use of the focal object method in teamwork |
| 8 |
Practicing self-presentation and public speaking skills |
Main part: protection of works performed by the method of focal objects. The focal object was chosen by the students themselves. The prerequisites were as follows: writing of the functional features and description of an invention, design of the written part of the work, presentation and protection. |
| 9 |
Collection of secondary data, comparison of control and experimental groups to assess the effectiveness of the experimental program |
Repeated psychological testing using the methods “Evaluation of creative personality characteristics” and “Evaluation of divergent thinking” suggested by F. Williams, “Self-assessment scale of innovative personality traits” (Lebedeva & Tatarko, 2009) |
