Purpose: The research was carried out to analyze the extension of college students’ creativity through the use of
scaffolding according to gender and college majors differences. Method: Scaffolding was composed of mediator in
making insights on problem solving. Results: The study showed the results which can be summarized as follows.
First, a creativity improvement has been demonstrated by experimental groups in some subordinate elements
after scaffolding. However, the extension of creativity according to gender and college majors that were given
scaffolding improved on different scale. According to the results shown from the construction task in Torrence
tests of creativity thinking, it showed the discrepancies in ability of extending creativity between the males and
females, humanities and social sciences students or engineering students. Depending on the creativity subordinate
elements, moreover the opposite result were analyzed. Conclusion: These results of this study suggest that what's
the meaning of scaffolding and the role of it in the extension of student's creativity and that's possibility.