The Relationships Between Work Sheets, Thinking Styles, Self-Concept and Technological Creativity among Fifth and Sixth Graders
Ping-Huang Chen
Abstract
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between worksheets, thinking styles, self-concept and technological creativity among fifth and sixth graders. The participants included 19 teachers and 535 pupils (291 fifth graders and 244 sixth graders) in Taipei and kaohsiung city.
The employed instruments were Worksheets Appraisal, Self- Concept Appraisal, Thinking Styles Appraisal. The employed analysis methods were Descriptives, Multivariate Analysis of Variance, and Discriminant Analysis.
The findings of this study revealed that (a) grade and gender had significant effects on technological creativity among the fifth and sixth Graders; (b) the teachers¡¦ application of worksheets in instruction, especially in teaching activity and evaluation, contributed to their pupils¡¦ development of technological creativity; (c) the legislative and the judicial thinking style had effects on the pupils¡¦ technological creativity; (d) self-concept, especially that about schools, had effects on the pupils¡¦ technological creativity; and (e) the teachers¡¦ use of worksheets and the pupils¡¦ thinking styles as well as self-concept could effectively predict the ability groups of the pupils¡¦ technological creativity.
Finally, some suggestions were proposed for educational authorities, schools, teachers, and future studies.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0107103-230929 |
| Date | 07 January 2003 |
| Creators | Chen, Ping-Huang |
| Contributors | none, Yu-Chu Yeh, none |
| 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-0107103-230929 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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