Recent research on creativity has put great emphasis on how multiple systems influence an individual¡¦s development in creativity. The main purposes of this study were (a) to understand the current situation of pupils¡¦ explanatory style, domain knowledge, creative life experience, and technological creativity; (b) to investigate the effects of pupils¡¦ grade, explanatory style, domain knowledge, and creative life experience on their technological creativity; and (c) to analyze the predictive power of pupils¡¦ grade, explanatory style, domain knowledge, creative life experience on their ability group membership of technological creativity. The participants included 418 third to sixth graders sampling from six elementary schools in Taipei City. The employed instruments were The Questionnaire of Children¡¦s Explanatory Style, The Questionnaire of Creative Life Experience, The Test of Technological Creativity, and the scores on the final exam of Science and Living Technology Areas. The employed analysis methods were Descriptives, ANOVA, one-way and two-way MANOVA, Canonical Correlation Analysis, and Discriminant Analysis.
The main findings in this study were as follows:
1. There were gender differences on the pupils¡¦ performance of explanatory style, creative life experience, and technological creativity; more specifically, the girls outperformed the boys on explanatory style, creative life experience, and technological creativity.
2. There were grade differences on the pupils¡¦ explanatory style.
3. Although no significant interaction effect of grade ´ explanatory style on technological creativity was found, there were significant main effects of grade on the pupils¡¦ technological creativity.
4. Domain knowledge contributed to the pupils¡¦ performance on technological creativity.
5. Creative life experience had significant effects on the pupils¡¦ technological creativity. Among the indices of both sides, ¡§language and performing arts¡¨ had the highest correlation with technological creativity.
6. Grade, explanatory style, domain knowledge, and creative life experience could effectively predict the pupils¡¦ ability group membership of technological creativity, and grade as well as domain knowledge had better predictive power.
Finally, some suggestions were proposed for teachers, relative educational institutions, parents, and further studies.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0702104-165438 |
| Date | 02 July 2004 |
| Creators | Cheng, Fang-yi |
| Contributors | none, none, 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-0702104-165438 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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