The Impact of Learning Style and Emotional Intelligence on Creativity Tendency for Elementary School Students- A Case Study of Mobile Learning in Tainan

• Main Authors: Hsu, Wei-Ying, 徐維英
• Other Authors: Chang, Cheng-Ping
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72xgww

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 教育學系教育經營與管理碩博士班 === 103 === This study is to explore creativity based on multi-dimensional theory. The main influencing factors to creativity are not only personal characteristics but also external environment. This paper regarded mobile learning as environment variable and personal characteristics as learning style and emotional intelligence. The literature reviews have shown students have different learning styles. If teachers can know the learning style of each student well, they can provide the most suitable teaching method for students. Moreover, emotional intelligence is one of the key factors to creativity. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore the impact of learning style and emotional intelligence on creativity tendency in mobile learning environment and to review the relationship among variables. This paper adopted the survey method. 465 questionnaires were distributed. The final effective samples were 377students of fifth and sixth grades in mobile learning environment from elementary schools in Greater Tainan. The measure instruments used in this study included Mobile Learning Satisfaction Scales, Learning Style Inventory, Emotional Intelligence Appraisal, Assessment of Creativity Tendency. The collected data were analyzed by a variety of statistical methods including descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA, T-Test, Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis. The major finding is that learning style of students in mobile learning environment has no significant effect on creativity tendency. However, students’ emotional intelligence such as self-emotional recognition and expression, self motivation, recognition of other people's emotion, and interpersonal relation has significant impact on creativity tendency. Finally, the finding of combining learning style and emotional intelligence to predict creativity tendency is that students who focus more on abstract concept rather than reflective observation and have higher above-mentioned four emotional intelligence will have higher creativity tendency. According to results, some suggestions will be proposed to education-related units and future researchers.