Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Although creativity has traditionally been measured as an individual trait (Runco & Jaeger, 2012), contemporary researchon workplace innovation (Kelley & Littman, 2001; Nonaka, 2008) suggests that creativity is a collaborative process ofworking with ideas (Amabile & Pratt, 2016). Furthermore, organizational creativity can be measured using social networkanalysis (Gloor, 2006) the more emergent leaders, the more creative the outcome (Gloor et al., 2016). Gloor’s creativitymeasure was adapted in a grade 1 class (n=22) to explore whether leaders would emerge when students engaged in creativeproblem-solving through online discussions in Knowledge Forum (Scardamalia, 2017). Social network analysis revealsthat 13 students emerged as leaders, and content analysis of the discussion indicates that leaders proposed new ideas thathelped deepen the progression of ideas. Additional analyses are underway to explore correlations between leadership andcreativity scores. Educational implications for developing the creative potential of young students are discussed.