Abstract
This research aims to develop social creative thinking and scientific creative thinking tests according to the PISA creative thinking assessment framework. The tests developed by the study adopts the evaluation indicators of the PISA creative thinking framework, including three dimensions: diversity of creative thinking, originality of creative thinking, and modification of creative thinking. The tests have been developed by creativity and test experts in related fields of PISA so that the tests have good validity and reliability. The research objects of this study are students from three middle schools, divided into experimental group and control group. Students in the experimental group all participate in interdisciplinary courses. Key findings are as follows:(1) The social creative thinking and scientific creative thinking tests have good reliability and validity. The internal consistency reliability of this scale is .883. In terms of validity, the test items can be divided into two groups by factor analysis: social creative thinking and scientific creative thinking. The three-dimensional indicators are analyzed by factor analysis, which can be divided into three factors. The first factor is social diversity and scientific diversity, and the second factor is social originality and improvement. And scientific originality and scientific improvement.
(2) The participation in interdisciplinary courses can enhance student’s creative thinking. The experimental class participated in cross-disciplinary thematic-oriented courses and showed remarkable performance in social creative thinking and scientific creative thinking. The control class showed a significant regression. The researchers assigned the research subjects to experimental group and control group. After a semester of interdisciplinary courses the experimental group students’ social creative thinking, scientific creative thinking, the degree of diversity, originality, and improvement all increased to a significant level.
| Date of Award | 2022 |
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| Original language | Chinese (Traditional) |
| Supervisor | Hsu-Chan Kuo (Supervisor) |