Information model of development indicators and levels of divergent thinking among university students

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to develop an information model of development indicators and levels of divergent thinking among students, the model must reflect their interrelations and the forms complexity of systemic organization of the researched phenomenon in its development. To achieve this goal, the following methods were used: content analysis of the literature on the research topic, analysis, critical evaluation, comparison, generalization and synthesis of information, the “Finite information flow” method. 7 indicators are identified and described in detail, which make it possible to identify the researched phenomenon: the ability to solve problematic non-standard problems; the ability to avoid the subject known features and highlight the hidden ones; the ability to draw analogies and add new things to the known aspects of the object; the ability of semantic analysis, generalization and synthesis; the ability to produce and develop a variety of adequate ideas on one object; the ability to switch attention from one idea to another when thinking about them synchronously; the ability to search for different solutions to the same problem. We define and characterize 3 levels of development of divergent thinking among university students, reflecting the improvement and complication of its qualitative characteristics: elementary, progressive and productive. Based on the selected indicators and levels, a developed information model reflects the transition of the object of research to a more complex level of organization in the process of evolution by increasing the degree of formation of abilities underlying divergent productivity. The results obtained can be used to determine the development levels of divergent thinking among university students and possible trajectories of its development, to develop technology for the formation and development of divergent thinking among students in the university and the management of these processes.