| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育心理與輔導研究所 === 91 === The purposes of this study were：1) to design a “ Higher-order Thinking Composition Program” which was suitable for junior high school students 2) to investigate the effect of this program for “nontraditional composition” on junior high school students 3) to investigate the influences on the students’ writing ability in “nontraditional composition” 4) to understand the effect of this program on the students’ critical thinking and creative thinking.
The subjects for this study were selected from Taipei Huai Sheng junior high school. There were twenty-eight students in the experimental group and thirty-two students in the control group. Four instruments used to collect the data for the subjects were “Writing Ability Scale”, “Critical Thinking Test”, “Creative Thinking Test ”, and “Writing- Interest Questionnaire”. The data obtained were analyzed by one-way ANCOVA and two-way ANCOVA.
The major findings were as follows:
1. After being trained under the high order thinking composition program, the students in the experimental group made no significant improvements in their writing ability in nontraditional composition.
2. There is no difference between the experimental group and the control group on critical thinking ability.
3. The students in the experimental group got higher scores than students in the control group on Creative Thinking Test.
4. There was no interaction between “instructional group” and “ability levels” on nontraditional composition.
5. After being taught under the higher- order thinking composition program, the students in the experimental group got higher scores than students in the control group on the writing- interest questionnaire.
Considering the major findings, the researcher provides suggestions for teaching nontraditional composition in junior high school to those who use this method so that they can improve their teaching quality as well as the students’ writing ability and thinking ability.
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