Modrek, A. S., & Drew, S. (2025). Integrating Imagination with Evidence When Writing. Creativity Research Journal.
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SDTSHDSBQWMCRDYIXG6S/full?target=10.1080/10400419.2025.2502762
With 20 schools across the U.S., we ask whether learning opportunities for exploratory, imaginative thinking can be provided without cost to evidence-based, argumentative learning.. Teachers’ exploratory, imaginative prompts significantly predict respective learners’ evidence-based, argumentative writing— in addition to learners’ exploratory, imaginative writing. The reverse, however, was not true: Teachers’ evidence-based, argumentative prompts did not show a significant association to learners’ exploratory, imaginative writing (instead, it only linked to students’ evidence-based, argumentative writing). Learners show stronger evidence-based, argumentative writing simultaneously with exploratory, imaginative writing, when both stem from the latter: explorative and imaginative learning opportunities.