Author:Jui-Chien Wang ; Ching-Ping Lin
Period/Date/Page:Vol. 11 No. 3 (2009 / 09 / 30) , P39 - 51
DOI:10.5297/ser.200909_11(3).0003
Abstract:The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of creative thinking instruction module on creative thinking abilities and creative tendency of novel physical education teachers. A quasi pre-post experiment and control group design was used in this study. 94-students from department of physical education of a university were participated in this study. Forty- nine participants from one class were selected as the experiment group, while 45-students from another class were considered as control group. Eight weeks creative thinking instruction module was implemented. ”Test of Divergent Thinking” and ”Test of Divergent Feeling” were used to collect data. The independent t-test and paired-sapling t-test were used to analysis the data. The main results of this study were as follows: 1). The performances of the experiment group were significantly better than those of the control group in figural fluency, figural flexibility, figural originality, verbal fluency and verbal originality. There was no significant difference between the experimental group and the control group on figural elaboration and verbal flexibility. 2). The performances of the experiment group was significant better than those of the control group in risk-taking, curiosity, challenge and whole performance. However, no significant difference between the experimental group and the control group on imagination. These findings indicated that creative thinking instruction module could improve novel physical education teachers' creative thinking abilities and creative tendency. The conclusion of this study could be used as the reference for physical education teacher education, creative thinking teaching and future research.
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