The effect of a creative-thinking instructional project on creative thinking and creative climate for vocational high school students

• Main Authors: Chu-yun Su, 蘇筑筠
• Other Authors: Hsiu-ling Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03864904810813446109

碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 技術及職業教育研究所 === 96 === Abstract The purpose of this study is to develop a creative-thinking instructional project for vocational high school students. It takes the teaching model of ATDE ( Asking、Thinking、Doing、Evaluation) as the central concept for this study. The study adopted the method of nonequivalent pretest-posttest Quasi-Experimental Design which included 41 high school students of the experimental group attending a nine-week ATDE creative-thinking instructional project and 44 in the control group attending the traditional instructional project. The instruments are “New Creativity Test” and “Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT), Figural Form A”. The data were analyzed by ANCOVA. According to the contents of focus interview with the students, the observation of students’ learning behavior, attitude, motivation, interesting records, and the results of the teachers’ interview response, the research analyze the affection of creative-thinking instructional project on the creative climate. The results derived from this study included: 1. The experimental group students who receive the creative training project made significantly greater gains in fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration of creative thinking abilities than the control group students. 2. Based on the interview data, it is concluded that creative climate is likely influenced by the factors “The perceptions toward creative-thinking instruction”, “Team’s work operation and affection”, “The perceptions toward the project work”, “The factor of generating creativity” and “The environmental factor”. According to the mentioned results, the researcher makes suggestions to the teaching of creative-thinking instructional project and research in the future. Keywords: creative-thinking instruction, creative thinking, creative climate