| Summary: | 碩士 === 樹德科技大學 === 兒童與家庭服務系 === 103 === Department of Child Care &; Family Studies, Shu-Te University
Investigating the Influence of Wordless Picture Books Teaching on
Preschoolers'' Creative Performance.
Student：Shu-Chuan Chen Advisor：Dr. Shu-Tan Cheng
ABSTRACT
This research aims to investigate the effects of wordless picture books teaching on young children’s creative tendency and the creative expression of their artwork.
This research subjects were an experimental group of 21, 4 year-old children from a preschool in Kaohsiung city. Children in the experimental group attended 8 weeks of experimental teaching while children of the control group were taught with the normal syllabus. Research data include: New Creativity Test , Children Artwork’s Creativity Checklist, CAP / Williams Scale, children’s drawings, random works created by the children, researcher’s reflection records, teachers’ interview records, children’ s feedbacks and teachers’ feedbacks, etc. After analyzing these data , and one-way covariance analysis was used. The study results are as follows:
1. New Creativity Test: the experimental group and control group did not show significant differences in fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration items.
2. Children Artwork’s Creativity Checklist: children in the experimental group who scored well in the pre-test showed significant superiority in fluency and originality items, compared to children in the control group . The experimental group and the control group did not show significant differences in elaboration, story-telling, topics, composition, boundary-breaking and imagination items.
3. CAP / Williams Scale: children in the experimental group who scored well in the pre-test were better in adventure item than control group. However, both two groups showed no significance difference in challenge item. Both the experimental group and the control group reached significant levels in fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration, curiosity, and imagination items.
4. Teachers of the experimental group pointed out that “Wordless Picture Book Teaching” can guide children’s creativity in verbal expression and lead to improvements in their drawings. Also, children in the experimental group showed positive attitudes towards the courses and it has most of their approval. The conclusion: “Wordless Picture Book Teaching” is effective on some young children, teachers of the experimental group approve of the children’s performance, and young children of the experimental group enjoyed the course activities of this experiment.
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