¡@¡@The purpose of this study was to devise the innovative science teaching material and to investigate the instruction effect of innovative science teaching material. Thus, there were two major parts in this study, including the development process of teaching material and the instruction experiment. Firstly, seven award-winning science teachers with average 24 years seniority were gathered and organized as ¡§an innovative science teaching material development team.¡¨ Through regular team discussion and sharing, the team devised three teaching units¡X ¡§the weather variety,¡¨ ¡§simple machine,¡¨ and ¡¨burning¡¨ based on Creative Thinking Instruction Model¡]CTIM¡^. Besides, we used case study as the method and through in-depth interviews, we realized the factors that contribute to an award-winning science teacher' creative teaching material based on Amabile's¡]1997¡^componential model of creativity.
¡@¡@Secondly, the purpose of the instruction experiment was to investigate how the teaching material executed. The experienment group teacher received a 3-day instruction demonstration and reflection from the workshop by the team, while the contrasted group teacher didn¡¦t. We selected 110 sixth graders in one Kaoshiung primary school and proceeded 8-week different instructions. We took a quasi-experiment design and used ¡¨Technology Creativity Test¡¨, ¡§Creative Problem Solving Test¡¨, and self-developed science achievement tests as assessment tools. The applied analysis methods were descriptive statistics, One-Way ANCOVA, One-Way MACOVA, and Rasch-analysis.
¡@¡@The main findings were as follows: (a) the creative product of the award-winning science teacher conformed to Amabile's theory; (b) it seemed that the creative instruction workshop facilitated teachers to learn from award-winning science teacher; (c) the innovative science teaching material had significant effects on enhancing sixth graders¡¦ technological creativity; (d) students in different groups did not perform differently on problem solving abilities; (e) the innovative science teaching material had partial significant effects on enhancing sixth graders¡¦ science academic performance. Finally, some suggestions were proposed for educational instruction and future studies.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0802107-232949 |
| Date | 02 August 2007 |
| Creators | Yen, Chia-ling |
| Contributors | Yu-yi Wu, Hsueh-hua Chuang, Ying-yao Cheng |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0802107-232949 |
| Rights | off_campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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